Chap. 41.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, chapter 48, Code
of 1873, in regard to the pay of a justice.

In force January 28, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section five, chapter forty-eight, Code of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
§ 5. The justices of the peace shall receive for taking depo-
sitions, for taking and certifying the acknowledgment ‘ot any
deed or writing or taking and certifying the privy examina-
tion and ac knowledgment of a married woman, the same fees
now allowed by law toa notary public, to be paid by the per-
son for whom the service is rendered. Each and every jus-
tice of the peace shall receive, as a compensation for every
oath administered, not in court, and every acknowledgment
taken by him and requiring his certificate, including acknowl-
edyment of bail, and for every process of attachment issued
by him, the sum of twenty-five cents, to be paid by the per-
son or persons for whom the said official acts are performed ;
and each justice of the peace shall receive a fee of one dollar
tor every commission of lunacy upon which he may sit, to be
paid out of the lunatic’s estate. Every justice of the peace
may. for the trial by warrants in which the commonwealth is
not the plaintitt, charge for all services which he may perform
in such Cases, including the issuing of warrants and cubpaonias,
the swearing of witnesses, the taxing of costs, and issuing of
executions, fifty cents and no more, ‘which shall be taxed in
the costs, and recovered as other costs are.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.