CHAPTER 540

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-837 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to compensation and mileage of electoral boards. fH 571]

Approved April 2, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

ae That § 24-37 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
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§ 24-37. The secretary of the electoral board shall receive from the
county, city or town for each day of actual service the sum of ten dollars.
Each other member of the electoral board shall receive from the county,
city or town, respectively, for each day of actual service the sum of * seven
dollars and fifty cents, and the same mileage as is now paid to jurors; pro-
vided that no member of such board shall receive from the county, city or
town, respectively, more than one hundred fifty dollars in any one year, ex-
clusive of mileage, and provided further that in any county adjoining any
county having a density of population of one thousand or more a square
mile each member of the board shall receive for each day of actual services
the sum of ten dollars, and may receive as much as but not in excess of
three hundred dollars in any one year, exclusive of mileage; provided
that in any county having a population in excess of two thousand inhab-
itants per square mile and in any county adjoining a city lying wholly
in the State and having a population of more than one hundred ninety
thousand each member of the board shall receive for each day of actual
services the sum of ten dollars and may receive as much as, but not in
excess of, three hundred dollars in any one year, exclusive of mileage;
and provided further that in the event one or more special elections be
held in any county, city or town in any year, the members of the electoral
board shall be paid additional amounts at the same per diem, and mileage.