Chap. 393.—An ACT to amend section 31 of an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act prescribing the duties,
powers, liabilities and compensation of certain county officers,
providing for the collection of taxes and for the repeal of chapters
37 and 46, Code of 1873, approved March 29, 1875, as amended by
an act approved March 29, 1876, amending sections 15 and 30, and
by an act approved the same day amending section 47 and by an
act approved March 20, 1877, and by an act approved April 2, 1877;
amending the 18th and 2oth sections ; and by an act approved on the
same day amending the 30th section and by these several acts ap-
proved March 12, 1878, amending the 7th, 6th and 2gth sections of
said first mentioned act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in-
consistent herewith, approved April 1, 1879.

Approved Match 3, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-one of an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact an act entitled an act prescribing the duties, powers,
liabilities and compensation of certain county officers, provid-
ing for the collection of taxes and for the repeal of chapters
thirty-seven and forty-six, Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-five, as amended by an act approved March
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, amending
sections fifteen and thirty, and by an act approved the same day
amending section forty-seven, and by an act approved March
twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and by an act
approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,
amending the eighteenth and twentieth sections, and by an act
approved on the same day amending the thirtieth section, and
by three several acts approved March twelfth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight, amending the seventh, six and twenty-ninth
sections of said first mentioned act, and to repeal all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent herewith, approved April first; eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-nine, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 31. On or before the first day of January and the first day
of July of each year, the auditor of public accounts shall de-
liver to the attorney-general a list of all the treasurers and col-
lectors who have failed to make the statements or pay the sums
required by the twentieth section of this act; and such list,
where the failure is to pay, shall specify the amount due from
the treasurer or collector. Itshall be the duty of the attorney-
general forthwith to proceed against such treasurers and collec-
tors, and their sureties, for all fines and liabilities incurred by
such failure. Such proceedings may be according to the pro-
visions of chapter forty of Code of eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-three, so far as the same are applicable. Notices in such
proceedings shall be served on the treasurer or collector, and
copies thereof forthwith sent by the attorney-general to the
clerk of the county or corporation court of every county or
corporation, wherein it is ascertained that any such treasurer or
collector has any estate, and the clerk of such court shall re-
cord the same as a lis pendens is now required by law to be re-
corded. And from the time notice in such proceedings is re-
ceived by the clerk to be recorded in any such county or cor-
poration, the personal property and real estate of the treasurer
or collector in such county or corporation, shall be bound for
the payment of any judgment which may be rendered upon
such proceedings, in the same manner that personal property
is bound under the third section of chapter one hundred and
eighty-four of the Code, upon delivery of a writ of fieri facias
to a sheriff or other officer. If the auditor of public accounts
fail to deliver any such list, as required by this section, he shall
forfeit two hundred and fifty dollars, to be recovered by mo-
tion, after ten days’ notice, in the circuit court of Richmond
city, which notice shall be given by the attorney-general; and
in case of such failure the said auditor of public accounts shall
also be liable, with his sureties upon his official bond, for the
amount due from such treasurer or collector. For the purpose
of carrying out the provisions of this section, and of any other
laws imposing duties on him in connection with the collection
of moneys due the state, the attorney-general may employ a
clerk at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars in any one

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