Chap. 779.—An ACT to fix the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Bedford
county, requiring every sixty days statement of collections and payment into
the treasury of the state revenues, and to empower the board of supervisors
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Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when
the treasurer of Bedford county shall be required to give a new or
additional bond said bond shall be executed in manner and form
now prescribed by law. But the penalty of the new bond shall be
not less than forty thousand dollars, but may be more, at the discre-
tion of the county court or the judge thereof in vacation.

2. The treasurer of Bedford county, on the first Monday in Decem-
ber in each year, and every sixty days thereafter, shall make to the
auditor of public accounts, under oath, a statement of all moneys
collected for the state or county, and shall pay into the treasury so
much of said fund as shall be due to the commonwealth and not
needed in the county to pay Grandstaff school warrants, and at the
time and periods aforesaid he shall also make to the judge of the
county court a like statement of all moneys collected for the county
and file this statement with the clerk of the board of supervisors.
For failure to make these statements, or either of them, or to pay into
the treasury the state’s revenues, the treasurer shall be fined not less
than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence, forfeit
to the county and commonwealth his commissions upon collections,
and after reasonable notice be removed from office.

3. The board of supervisors of said county, when in their discre-
tion they deem it necessary, may recommend to the county court
that it require a new or additional bond from the treasurer.

4. In its operation this act is wholly prospective and shall in no
wise affect the bond given by the present treasurer of Bedford county.

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