CHAPTER 154

An Act to amend and reenact § 68-809 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to compensation and expenses of members of home board of poor

relief. rH 410}
Approved February 28, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1 That § 63-309 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 63-309. Each of these homes shall be erected upon a farm of
suitable size and of soil susceptible of high improvement, and be controlled
by a board to consist of at least one representative from each county and
city composing the district, but where a county or city shall have more
than twenty thousand inhabitants its representative shall have one vote
and an additional vote for every twenty thousand inhabitants or fractional
part thereof over ten thousand; provided, that no city shall have more
votes in any district than the combined votes of the counties composing
the districts.
The representatives from the counties and cities shall be elected by
the respective governing bodies thereof. Such representatives shall be
entitled to necessary expenses incurred, including mileage as provided by
general law, in attending meetings of the board, and in addition each
* may receive an allowance of * ten dollars per day for each day that he
shall be in attendance on the board, such allowance, however, not to exceed
in any one year the sum of * one hundred fifty dollars, to be paid by the
counties and cities, respectively. In the district composed of Augusta,
Albemarle, Alleghany, Bath and Rockbridge, and in the district composed
of Amherst, Campbell, Halifax, Henry, Patrick and Pittsylvania, the
compensation of the representatives on the board shall be seven dollars
per day and expenses, but the maximum allowance in any one year shall
not exceed the sum of one hundred fifty dollars. The representatives of
the county of Fairfax upon any district home board shall each receive
seven dollars a day and expenses for each day in attendance on such board,
not to exceed, however, one hundred fifty dollars in any one year. The
accounts for such expenses and allowances shall be made out and verified
by affidavits of the representatives and attested by the secretary of the
board.