CHAPTER 127

An Act to amend and reenact § 51-29.1, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the retirement of Clerks of the Senate and House
of Delegates.

[H 96]

Approved February 28, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 51-29.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 51-29.1. The Clerk of the State Senate or the Clerk of the House
of Delegates may retire from his office as such, at any time after having
attained the age of seventy years and after not less than twenty years of
service as such Clerk, provided that in the computation of such twenty
years of service, any such Clerk may include therein other service with
the State; a Clerk may be retired upon giving the Governor notice in
writing of his intention so to do, stating in such notice the date upon which
such retirement will become effective. Upon receipt of such notice, the
Governor shall notify the Comptroller of such retirement and the effective
date of the same.

Any such Clerk so retiring shall, after such retirement and for so
long as he may live, be paid by the State, out of the general funds in the
State treasury, or out of such funds as shall be appropriated for the pur-
pose, annual compensation in an amount equal to *three-fourths of the
annual salary being received by him immediately prior to his retirement.
Such compensation shall be paid by the State Treasurer in monthly or
semimonthly installments, upon warrants of the Comptroller.