Chap. 33.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1903,
and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 17, 1903.

: Approved February 17, 1910.

_ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and fourteen of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved December the tenth, nineteen hundred and
three, and as amended by an act approved December the seventeenth,

nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:
§814. Bond of officers.—Every county treasurer, sheriff of a county,
county clerk, every sergeant of a city, clerk of a city court, every clerk
of a circuit court, and every commissioner of revenue, superintendent of
the poor, county surveyor or supervisor, constable, and overseer of the
poor shall, at the time he qualified, give such bond as is required by sec-
tion one hundred and seventy-seven. The penalty of the bond of cach
officer, to be determined, within the limits herein prescribed by the
court, judge, or clerk before whom he qualified, shall be as follows: OF
the bond of the county treasurer, not less than double the amount to !-e
received annually by him; the penalty of the bond of a sheriff 07 a
county, and sergeant of a city, not less than ten nor more than sixty
thousand dollars. If said county treasurer shall elect to give as surcty
on his bond some guaranty or security company doing business in the
State of Virginia, and deemed sufficient by the court, judge, or clerk,
before whom he qualifies, he may execute such bond on a form to !e
prescribed by the attorney-general and to be furnished by the auditor
of public accounts to the clerks of the several courts, and the penalty
of said bond shall be such as the court, judge, or clerk may require, but
not Jess than seventy-five per centum of the amount to be received an-
nually by him; if the sheriff of a county or sergeant of a city shall clect
to give as surety on his bond such guaranty or security company, the
penalty of such bond shall not be less than five thousand nor more than
thirty thousand dollars; of the bond of the county clerk, or clerk of a
city or circuit court, not less than three thousand dollars, and the bond
of such officers as are mentioned in this act shall bind each of them, and
their sureties, not only for the faithful discharge of their duties as such
respective officers, but also for the faithful discharge of such other
duties as may be imposed upon them by law, in like manner and with
the same effect as if it was so expressed in the conditions of their said
bonds; of the bond of the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand
dollars; of the bond the superintendent of the poor, not less than four
thousand dollars; of the bond of the county surveyor, not Iess than two
thousand dollars; of the bond of a supervisor, not less than one thousand
nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars; of the bond of a con-
stable, not less than five hundred dollars; of the bond of an overseer of
the poor, double the amount that will actually pass through his hands as
such overseer, not less in any case than five hundred dollars: provided,
that nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring the Common-
wealth or any county in the State to pay the costs of said security when
given by such guaranty or security company.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

3. An emergency existing by reason of the fact that there is now no
provision of Jaw requiring bonds from sergeants of cities, this act shall
take effect from the time of its passage.