CHAPTER 247

An Act to amend and reenact § 68-809, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to district homes for the care and maintenance of
certain persons, their location; members of home board and their
compensation and expenses.

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Approved March 6, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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

63-309. Each of these homes shall be erected upon a farm of suit-
able 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
woes in any district than the combined votes of the counties composing the

istricts.

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 * the compensation of the
representatives on the board shall be seven dollars per day and expenses,

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 repre-
sentatives and attested by the secretary or the board.