Chap. 368.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 525, 3518 and 3519 of the
code of Virginia, in relation to fee bills.

Approved February 18, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions five hundred and twenty-five, thirty-five hundred and eighteen
and thirty-five hundred and nineteen of the code of Virginia, be
amended so as to read as follows:

§ 525. How made out and collected.—The commissioners may make
out tickets for their fees, and place them in the hands of a sheriff
or constable, to be collected and accounted for in the same manner
that clerk’s fees are collected and accounted for. The said commis-
sioners shall be subject to the same penalties as clerks of courts for
issuing tickets wrongfully.

§ 3518. To whom fee bills delivered for collection; power and
duty of collecting officer.—Any officer mentioned in this chapter, or
personal representative of a deceased clerk, may deliver fee bills,
duly signed, within two years from the time such fee bills become due, to
any sheriff or constable in any magisterial district, or high consta-
ble of any city, who shall receive and endeavor to collect the same.
Such sheriff, constable or high constable may distrain for such fee
bills, and the sheriff for any fee bills due to him, such property of
the person to whom the fee bills are charged as might be levied on
under a writ of fieri facias against him; and sections six hundred
and twenty-seven, six hundred and twenty-eight and six hundred
and twenty-nine shall apply to such fee bills in like manner as to
taxes.
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§ 83519. When and how officer to account for fee bills collected and
return those uncollected; his commission; remedy for what he 1s
chargeable with.—Every sheriff, constable, or high constable to
whom such fee bills are so delivered shall, within twelve months
after such delivery, account therefor with the officer or personal
representative entitled thereto by returning such as he may not have
collected, with an endorsement thereon that the person charged with
the fees has no estate in his county, corporation or district out of
which the same could be made, and by paying to such officer or per-
sonal representative the amount of all not so returned, deducting a
commission for himself of ten per centum on such amount. If he
fail so to do, judgment may be obtained, on motion, against him and
his sureties, or his and their persona) representatives, or, if he be a
sheriff, against any deputy who may have signed the receipt for the
fee bills and his sureties, or his and their personal representatives,
for the amount with which such sheriff, constable or high constable
is chargeable, and damages thereon not exceeding fifteen per centum
per annum from the expiration of the said twelve months. Such
judgment may be, on motion, after notice, in the circuit or county
court of the county or the circuit or corporation court of the corpo-
ration wherein said sheriff, constable or high constable resides. On
such motion the signature to any receipt for fee bills mentioned in
the notice as signed by any person shall be deemed to be his genu-
ine signature, unless an affidavit be made denying it.

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