Chap. 743.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the code of Virginia
as amended by an act approved 23d February, 1894, prescribing the penalties
of bonds of county officials.

Approved March 4, 1896,

1. Be itenacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and fourteen of the code of Virginia as amended and
re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section
eight hundred and fourteen of the code of Virginia as to bonds of
officers, touching the bond of a supervisor in Northampton county,
approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 814. Bonds of officers—Hvery county treasurer, sheriff of a
county, clerk of a county or corporation court (who is also ex-officio
the clerk of the circuit court of the county or corporation), every sep-
arate clerk of a county, corporation, or circuit court; the clerk of the
hustings court of the city of Richmond, the clerk of the chancery
court of the said city, every commissioner of the revenue, superin-
tendent of the poor, county surveyor, supervisor, constable, and over-
seer of the poor, shall at the time he qualifies give such bond as is
prescribed by section one hundred and seventy-seven. The penalty
of the bond of each officer to be determined within the limits herein
prescribed by the court or judge before whom he qualifies shall be as
follows: Of the bond of the county treasurer, not Jess than double
the amount to be received annually by him, except that the penalty
of the bond of the treasurer of Nansemond county shall be such as
the county court of that county or the judge thereof shall require, but
not less than the full amount to be received annually by such trea-
surer. Of the bond of the sheriff of a county, not less than ten
thousand nor more than sixty thousand dollars. Of the bond of the
clerk of a county or corporation court (who is also ex-officio clerk of
the circuit court of the county or corporation), not less than three
thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, and the bond of such
clerk of the county or corporation court shall bind him and his sure-
ties not only for the faithful discharge of his duties as the clerk of
said court, but also for the faithful discharge of his duties as the
clerk of the said circuit court in like manner and with the same
effect as if it was so expressed in the condition of his said bond.
Of the bond of the separate clerk of a county, corporation, or circuit
court; of the clerk of the hustings court of the city of Richmond,
and of the clerk of the chancery court of the said city, each not less
than three thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars. Of the
bond of the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand dollars.
Of the bond of the superintendent of the poor, not less than four
thousand dollars. Of the bond of the county surveyor, not less than
two thousand dollars. Of the bond of a supervisor, not less than
one thousand nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars,
except as to the county of Northampton, when the penalty of the
bond of a supervisor may, in the discretion of the judge of the county
court, be fixed in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars. Of the
bond of a constable, not less than two thousand dollars; and of the
bond of an overseer of the poor, double the amount that will an-
nually pass through his hands as such overseer—not less, in any case,
than five hundred dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.