CHAPTER 555

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

[S 861]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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

§ 63-309. Each of these homes shall be erected upon a farm of
itable size and of soil susceptible of high improvement, and be con-
plied by a board to consist of at least one representative from each
unty and city composing the district, but where a county or city shall
ve more than twenty thousand inhabitants its representative shall have
e vote and an additional vote for every twenty thousand inhabitants
fractional part thereof over ten thousand; provided, that no city shall
ve more votes in any district than the combined votes of the counties
mposing the districts.
The representatives from the counties and cities shall be elected by
the respective governing bodies thereof. Such representatives shall be
antitled to necessary expenses incurred, including mileage as provided by
yeneral law, in attending meetings of the board, and in addition each
may receive an allowance of * fifteen dollars per day for each day that he
shall be in attendance on the board, such allowance, however, not to ex-
seed in any one year the sum of one hundred * eighty dollars to be paid
by the counties and cities, respectively. * The accounts for such expenses
and allowances shall be made out and verified by affidavits of the repre-
sentatives and attested by the secretary of the board.