CHAPTER 658

An Act to amend and reenact § 24-87, as amended, of the ‘Code of
Virginia, relating to compensation of local electoral boards so as to
increase the maximum in certain counties. [H 633]

Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 24-87, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 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; provided 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, exclusive of mileage, and provided further that in any
county adjoining any county having a density of population of one thou-
sand or more a square mile each member of the board shall receive for
each day of actual services the sum of * fifteen dollars, and may receive as
much as but not in excess of * five hundred dollars in any one year, ex-
clusive of mileage; provided that in any county having a population in
excess of two thousand inhabitants 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 mem-
bers of the electoral board shall be paid additional amounts at the same
per diem, and mileage.