CHAPTER 435

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-50 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the committee of circuit judges to fix salaries and expenses of judges
and associate judges of county courts, so as to provide for the payment
of compensation to the circuit court judges constituting such com-
mittee.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14-50 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 14-50. * The committee of three circuit judges, heretofore estab-
lished by Chapter 376 of the Acts of the General Assembly of nineteen
hundred and forty-two, and subsequently amended and reenacted, is con-
tinued, and the circuit court judges heretofore appointed and constituting
the committee are continued as members of the committee, to serve at the
pleasure of the Governor. When a vacancy shall occur in the membership
of the committee, the Governor shall appoint a circuit judge to fill such
vacancy, to serve at the pleasure of the Governor.

The committee shall meet at such times and places as the committee
may from time to time designate for the purpose of fixing the salaries of
the * county judges and associate judges of the counties of the State,
appointed under the provisions of Chapter * 1 of Title 16.1 of this Code,
within the limits and upon the basis prescribed by * law. The committee
shall, except in cases otherwise prescribed by law, also fix the salaries of
the * clerks, deputy clerks and clerical assistants of the county courts in
which the committee is of opinion that the employment of such clerks,
deputy clerks and clerical assistants is necessary. * The members of the
committee shall receive * such compensation * as may be appropriated out
of the revenues of the State for that purpose, and, in addition to such com-
pensation, shall be reimbursed out of the money appropriated for the pay-
ment of the criminal expenses of the State for their actual expenses in-
curred in the performance of their duties hereunder.

The committee shall meet at such place or places as they may agree
upon in December of every year, for the purpose of fixing such salaries
for the ensuing year. The committee may call upon any * county judge and
associate judge for information with respect to the operation of his office
and shall, as soon as may be practicable after such meeting, certify to
the Comptroller a detailed statement of the amounts of the salaries fixed by
them for the several * county judges and associate judges, their clerks,
deputy clerks and clerical assistants, for the ensuing calendar year.