Chap. 343.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3527 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact section 3527 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to payment of fees
to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases, approved on the 24th day of
February, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 3527 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to payment of
fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases, approved on the 3d day
of March, 1898.

Approved March 14, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand five hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact section three thousand five hundred and twenty-seven of the
Code of Virginia in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the
treasury in criminal cases, approved on the twenty-fourth day of Feb-
ruary, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended and re-enacted by an
act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section thirty-five hundred
and twenty-seven of the Code of Virginia in relation: to payment of
fees to officers out of the treasury in criminal cases, approved on the
third day of March, eighteen hundred and nincty-eight, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3527. The fees of attorneys for the Commonwealth, clerks, justices,
sheriffs, sergeants, jailers. coroners, criers, and constables, in all cases
in which the defendant is indicted for a felony, shall be paid out of
the treasury of the State, when certified as prescribed by section four
thousand and eighty-four of the Code of Virginia, and in all cases
in which a charge of felony is investigated and dismissed by a justice,
police justice or mayor, or in which the defendant is sent on to the
grand jury and no indictment found, one-half of the lawful fees of
the justice and other officers, except the jailor, who shall be paid in
full whether an indictment be found or not, shall likewise be paid
when certified as heretofore required in this section out of the State
treasury. And in every prosecution for a misdemeanor, if the fees of
said officers are not paid by the prosecutor, or in cases of conviction, by
the defendant, and in cases where there is no prosecutor and the de-
fendant shall be acquitted, or convicted and unable to pay the costs, or
where a nolle prosequi is entered or judgment arrested, one-half only
of the lawful fees of the justice and other officers, except the attorney
for the Commonwealth for prosecuting the case in a court of record and
jailor, both of whom shall be paid in full, shall likewise be paid, when
certified as heretofore required in this section, out of the State treasury.

In no case shall any account be allowed or paid unless verified by the
affidavit of the person rendering the services; and when allowance is
made for a guard, or to a person to assist in making an arrest, the
account shall also be verified by the affidavit of such guard or person
employed to assist in making the arrest, or the personal representative
of such officer, guard or person, if he be dead. The fees of said officers
shall be as follows:

All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.