Chap. 35.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act, approved March 3, 1896,
entitled “an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate
the salary of the police justice of the city of Norfolk, approved February 18,
1896,” and also in relation to the said police justice and to the clerk of
the corporation court of the city of Norfolk in connection with fines im-
posed by said police justice.

Approved February 7, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act.
approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled “an
act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the salary of
the police justice of the city of Norfolk, approved February eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows: The police justice of the city of Norfolk shall he paid a salary
of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable in monthly instal-
ments out of the treasury of the State upon warrant of the auditor of
publie accounts out of the moneys collected and paid into the treasury
on account of fines imposed by said police justice; but the salary herein
provided for is not to be a charge on the State treasury, except so far as
it relates to the revenue covered into said treasury on account of fines
imposed by said police justice, and shall be in leu of all other compen-
sation to the police justice for his services, whether rendered under State
laws or the ordinances of the city of Norfolk. Before entering upon the
duties of his office the said police justice shall execute a bond, payable to
the commonwealth of Virginia, in penalty of ten thousand dollars, to be
approved by the judge of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk.

2. Within thirty days after every trial the said police justice shall
certify to the clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, the
amount of every fine imposed by him, together with the costs, and
whether the same has been paid. When he acquits the acensed he shall
certify the costs of the trial and to whom due, and if he render judgment
ayainst the prosecutor for costs, he shall so state. After such certificate
has been made the State shall be liable to the officers thereto entitled for
one-half only of their lawful fees remaining unpaid as shown by said
certificate. If said police justice fail to return such certificate within
said time without good cause, he shall forfeit twenty dollars. The said
clerk shall enter all such certificates in a suitable book, and if the fines
and costs have not been paid, he shall forthwith issue a writ of fieri
facias therefor, and afterwards such other process, from time to time, as
may be proper, in the same manner as if such fine had been imposed by
the corporation court of the city of Norfolk. For entering every such
certificate the said clerk shall receive a fee of twenty-five cents, payable
out of the public treasury. The clerk shall include in any execution for
such fine his fee for recording such certificate and issuing the process.

3. If any fine imposed by said police justice is received by him, he
shall pay the same, with the costs, within thirty days thereafter to the
clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk. For a failure to
make such payment within said time, without good cause, he shall forfcit
twenty dollars, which, together with the money so received, may be
recovered by motion. The said clerk shall remit monthly to the auditor
of public accounts by certified check made payable to the treasurer all
moneys in his hands due the State on account of fines imposed by said
police justice, and such payment shall be credited to said clerk and
allowed in his semi-annual settlement, and the said clerk shall be
subject to the same penalties in connection with such money and receive
the same commission thereon as prescribed as to money received by him
under chapter twenty-six of the Code of Virginia.

4. The clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk shall, on
or before the fifteenth day of October in cach year, return to the auditor
of public accounts a list of fines imposed by said police justice during
the year ending on the last day of August next preceding (except those
cases in which executions had been issued and were not returnable before
that day). Cases in which, at the time of transmitting the annual list
the year before, executions had been issued but were not returnable on
or before the last dav of August in that vear, shall likewise be included.
The said clerk shall certify to the correctness of the report. In such
list there shall be stated the amount of cach fine, the cost of prosecution,
the date of the judgment therefor and whom against: whether it has
been paid in the police court or whether an execution has issued therefor ;
what execution has issued; to what olticer it has been delivered; when
returnable; whether returned or not, and what return is made thereon
If the execution be returned satisfied, either wholly or in part, a copy
of the return shall be certified, including the name of the officer by whom
made. There shall be subjoined to the Hist a statement of every fine for
which an execution, returnable before the commencement of the year
ending on the last day of August, has been returned with effect, either
wholly or in part, during the said vear. A copy of the return on every
such execution shall be certified, and likewise a statement of the proceeds
of any insolvent’s estate (surrendered for a fine), whereof a return has
been made during the said year with the name of the ollicer making such
return. For the services of the said clerk under this section of this act,
his fee shall be one dollar upon every such fine, which fee shall be
included in the exeeution for cost or be retained by him when collected.

5. All acts or parts of acts in contlict herewith are hereby repealed.

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