CHAPTER 27

An Act to prescribe the compensation of clerks of courts of record in
certain cities, to provide the method of payment of compensation and
expenses of such officers, to impose certain duties on the State Com-
pensation Board, and to provide for the payment of all fees and
commissions of such officers into the treasury of such cities. tH OT]

Approved December 17, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. In each city of this Commonwealth having a population of not
less than thirty-five thousand inhabitants nor more than thirty-seven
thousand, five hundred inhabitants, according to the last preceding United
States Census, for which there is both a Court of Hustings and a Circuit
Court, the clerk of the courts of record shall be paid a salary of not less
than six thousand dollars nor more than seven thousand, five hundred
dollars per annum.

Said salary shall be in full compensation for services and shall be in
lieu of the retention by any such officer of any and all official fees, com-
missions or compensation of whatever kind or character, and from what-
ever source derived; and the city council of each such city shall provide
for the payment of such salary out of the city treasury in equal monthly
instalments. The expenses of office of each such officer, including the
compensation of deputies and employees, shall be likewise paid out of the
city treasury on duly authenticated vouchers, when and as such expenses
are incurred, or may become due and payable, or at least twice monthly.
The maximum amount of such expenses in the case of each such officer
shall be fixed by the State Compensation Board, and the State Compensa-
tion Board shall fix the number and compensation of the deputies and
employees of each such officer.

§ 2 fees and commissions of every kind or character received
or collected by each of the officers mentioned in the preceding section of
this act, and from whatever source derived, shall be paid into the city
treasury by each of such officers monthly. All fees and commissions of
every kind and character, whether payable by the State, the United States,
or by private persons, firms or corporations, now or hereafter made receiv-
able by law or ordinance by any such officer as is mentioned in the preced-
ing section of this act, shall continue to be paid to and collected by him,
and shall be paid into the city treasury monthly, except that the city afore-
said shall not be required to pay any such officer any fees or commissions
for services performed for such city.

3. An emergency exists and this act is in force on and from January
first, nineteen hundred fifty-three.