Chap. 298.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 647 of the Code of Virginia
for 1887, relating to copy of report to be furnished to auditor, supervisors.
and council; treasurer charged with amounts due State, county and city;
fee of clerk.

Approved March 13, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and forty-seven of the Code of Virginia for eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-seven, relating to copy of report to be furnished to
auditor, supervisors, and council; treasurer charged with amounts due
State, county and city; fee of clerk, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§647. Copy of report to be furnished to auditor, supervisors and
council; treasurer charged with amounts due State, county and city;
fee of clerk.—The elerk of said court shall certify a copy of the report
to the auditor of public accounts within thirty days after the date of
such confirmation, for which service, and for the services required of
said clerk under section six hundred and sixty-two of the Code for
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the clerk shall be entitled to the
sum of two cents per each name on the reports for each copy of the
reports required to be made by this section and by said section six hun-
dred and sixty-two, to be paid out of the public treasury, upon the
certificate of the court. Upon receiving the copy aforesaid, the auditor
shall charge the treasurer with whatever is due the Commonwealth on
account of sales so made by him, less ten per cent. commissions, which
amount the.treasurer shall pay into the treasury within sixty days from
the date of sale.

The clerk shall exhibit to the board of supervisors to be examined by
it the original of said report, and, in case of a sale for the levies of a
city or town, before the council of such city or town. at the next mect-
ig thereof, who shall charge the treasurer with whateve
count of said sales for levies, less a commission of ten p
2 and his sureties on his official bond shall be liable theref«