Chap. 89.—An ACT prescribing the cases in which the governor shall have power
to remit fines and penalties, the rules and regulations under which the same
may be done, and how such judgments for fines, penalties, and costs may be
marked satisfied upon judgment lien dockets.

Approved March 16, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the governor
<hall have power in his diserction to remit fines and penalties, “whether
heretofore or hereafter imposed, in all cases of felony or misdemeanor
after conviction, in which he would have power under the provisions of
section seventy-three, article five of the Constitution to grant a pardon,
if, in his opinion, the evidence accompanying a petition praying for said
release warrants the granting of said release. In all cases in which the
governor shall remit a fine or penalty he shall issue his order to the clerk
of the court by which such fine or penalty was imposed ; or if such fine or
penalty were imposed by a justice of the peace, to the clerk of the county
court of the county, if prior to the first day of February, nineteen hundre d
and four, or to the clerk of the circuit court of the county, if subsequent
to said date, or to the clerk of the corporation court of the city in which
such justice holds office, and such court shall at its next term, or immedi-
ately if then in session, cause such order to be spread upon the law or¢.:
beok of its court; and the clerk of such court shall, immediately uper
the receipt of such order, mark the judgment for such fine, penalty ar:
costs remitted by the governor upon the judgment lien docket of t-
county or city in which it may have been recorded. The governor sha.
communicate to the general assembly, at each session, particulars of ever

case of fine or penalty remitted, with his reasons for remitting the sam
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.