CHAP. 349.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved December 31st, 1903. (S. B. 403 )

Approved March 27, 1914.

1. Be it enacted bv the general assemblv of Virginia, That
section thirty-five hundred and five of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved December thirty-first, nineteen hun-
dred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 3505. County clerks and clerks of appellate and other

courts.—-Where a writing is admitted to record under

chapter one hundred and eleven, for everything relating

to it, except the recording in the deed book, to-wit: for

receiving proof or acknowledgement, entering orders,

writing on it clerk’s certificate, statement of deed in list
returned to court, recording in minute book and posting
same, and embracing it in list for commissioners of the

revenue. fifty cents .......... cece eee cece eee eee ence $ 0.50
For everv deed, paper. or other writing examined which may

have been recorded by any predecesscr of his in office, ten

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For recording a plat of not more than six courses, or for a

copy thereof, fifty cents ............ cc cece eee eee eee 50
For every course above six, three cents ................05: 03

For recording in the deed book such writing, and all matter
therewith (except plats). or for recording anything not
otherwise provided for, for every thirty words, three

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lieu of the said allowance of three cents for thirty words,
the clerk may. for recording in the deed book, elect to
charge the following specific fees, to-wit: Where the
writing is a deed of trust or mortgage, or is a convey-
ance of real and personal estate, or of real estate only,
Seventy-five CéNtS o.csewienewscusweewinws see wee wee wees
And where it is not such, twenty-five cents ................
For swearing the witnesses and entering in the order or
minute book all orders in relation to the proof of a will
which is admitted to record without consent, and copying
such orders on the will, fifty cents ................0000
Yor recording a will, and the matter recorded therewith in the
will book, at the option of the clerk, three cents for every
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Or a specific fee of thirty cents ............ cc cece eee eee
If there be an order committing a decedent’s estate to an
officer, for entering and copying such order, and the orders
of appraisement, fifty cents ................ cece e ee eens
If any personal representative qualify, for swearing him and
his surety, making out bond, entering, and copying on
the will the order granting probate or administration,
making one copy of such order for representative, entering
and copying orders of appraisement, and including case
in said list, one dollar .......... 22. cece eee e eee eee
If several personal representatives qualify on the same estate,
during the same term, only the same fee shall be charged
as if one had qualified, to-wit: one dollar ...............
For entering and copying an order granting a license and
administering an oath, where necessary, seventy-five
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On an application for a marriage license, for administering
and writing certificate of oath, issuing and registering
license, and recording and giving receipt for certificate of
the marriage, one dollar ............... ee cece eee eens
For recording a certificate and posting a copy thereof, under
section two hundred and sixty-three, fifty cents..........
For making out an injunction bond, administering all neces-
sary oaths, writing proper affidavits, making out release of
errors, copying the same, and endorsing on the summons
that such bond and release are filed, seventy-five cents. .
For making out any other bond, administering all necessary
oaths, and writing proper affidavits, fifty cents .........

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For issuing a writ in the nature of an ad quod damnum,
eighty-five cents 0.0... cece cece eee e ete een eens
On receiving the copy of a caveat, for entering such copy,
twenty-five cents ......... cece cece cece eee eens
For issuing a summons to answer a bill, with an endorse-
ment thereon of an injunction, or of an order of attach-
ment, and recording return of same, thirty-five cents....
For issuing any other summons, or any writ not particulas ly
provided for, and for recording the return where proper
to do so, tw enty- AVE: CONS case new sw wi w we wom 00 sie woe
For each copy of any process which goes out of the office
(with such process), to be used in serving it, one-half the
fee for issuing such process; for noting in the process book
any decree, order, or process (except a summons for a
witness) and taking a receipt therefor, eighteen cents...
For postage paid by the clerk on a decree, order, or process,
and putting in or taking out of postoffice same, double
the amount of such postage; for entering in any suit, or
in a motion for judgment for money, all the attorneys for
each party, or the appearance in proper person of a party
having no attorney who so appears, ten cents...........
For endorsing and filing each petition, declaration, bill, an-
swer or other written pleadings, each bill of exceptions,

demurrer to evidence, special verdict, or case agreed,

each written notice of the defense relied on in ejectment,
or of a motion for judgment for money, and each report of
a commissioner, and for entering each plea, replication,
or other pleading, which is not written, fifteen cents.....
For endorsing and filing all the depositions and affidavits of
witnesses, filed on the same side at any one time, or all
the written interrogatories at one time, from one party to
another, or all the answers filed at one time to such inter-
rogatories, or the exceptions filed at one time by either
party to a commissioner’s report, fifteen cents...........
If papers be filed on the side of the plaintiffs, for which no
particular fee is allowed, a fee (not for each, but for the
whole) of twenty cents ............. cc cece eee ene eee nee
So also if papers be filed on the side of the defendants, for
which no particular fee is allowed, a fee (not for each, but
for the whole) of twenty cents ........... 0c ccc eee eee
For issuing an attachment, with a copy of the rule or order
for the same (if sent out therewith), and recording the
return thereof where proper to do so, thirty-five cents. .
For issuing a scire facias and recording the return thereof,
or for issuing a commission to examine ‘vitnesses, adminis.
tering oath when necessary as the foundation thereof, and
writing affidavit, fifty cents ............ 0. cee eee eee
For all the rules entered in any case on the same side, at any

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rules, where anything is done on such side at said rules
besides entering or filing a pleading or continuing the case,
twenty-five CENTS cnccencseweesonmew ees eww ew eeweeeeres
Where no proceedings are had in a case during any rules
except to continue it, the fees shall be at the rate of
twenty-five cents for every quarter of a year the case is
so continued, and no more, twenty-five cents...........
For docketing any suit, or any motion for judgment for
money (to be charged only once), ten cents............
Except that where an action or motion is on the court
docxet at a term designated for the trial of civil cases
in which juries are required, if no decision or continuance
be entered in it, there shall be a fee for putting it on the
docket at the next like term of eighteen cents............
Where a jury is impanelled, for swearing the jury and wit-
nesses, seventy-five cents ........ 0... cece cece eee ee eee
Where no jury is impanelled, if witnesses be examined by the
court, for swearing such witnesses for either party,
twenty Cents ccivcisuseiens sesue wiwveniwareveweicwesea
Where a witness claims for his attendance, for administering
an oath to him, and entering and certifying such attend-
ance, thirty cents ............ cece cece eect eee eeeee
For administering an oath not before provided for, and writ-
ing a certificate thereof, where the case requires one, fif-
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For all judgments, decrees, orders, and proceedings (except
entries of pleading and matters otherwise provided for),
which are entered on the same day, for the same persons,
at the election of the clerk, three cents..................
For every thirty words (actually written on the minute or
order book, or upon the rule book, when final judgments
are entered therein), or a specific fee of thirty-six cents.
Yor docketing under chapter one hundred and seventy-four
a judgment, decree, bond, or recognizance, twenty-five
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Tor entering satisfaction of same on judgment docket,
twenty Cents. cccisveescnss iain vee sess eeadee STE bee
For taxing costs in any case on one side, twenty cents.....
And if the case has been pending more than a year, then for
every additional year, ten cents .............00 cee eee
When an execution is returned by a constable in a case
wherein there is no appeal from the justice’s judgment,
for filing the papers, ten cents .............. ccc eee cece
And if the clerk issue execution in the case for such execu-
tion and all his other services in the case, until and in-
cluding the record of the return of said execution (if it
be returned before another issues), forty cents.........

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For any other execution, the entry in the execution book and
the record of the return, forty cents .................05-
For making out a transcript of the record and proceedings in
any case, in due form, so that the same may be used in an
appellate court, for every thirty words, three cents......
And for making out, in any other manner ‘than copying, any
paper to go “out of the office, which is not otherwise pro-
vided for, the same, or in lieu thereof, if the clerk elect,
a specific fee of twenty-five cents ............... seen eee
lor any copy to go out of the office, if it be not otherwise pro-
vided for, for every thirty words, two cents .............
Or in lieu thereof, if the clerk elect, a specific fee of twenty
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For annexing the seal of the court to any paper writing,.

the certificate of the clerk accompanying it, and writing
certificate of the judge, if the clerk be requested so to do,
thirty-seven cents 2.0... .. ccc ccc cc eee eee eee ees
For making statement, calculating interest, receiving pay-
ment of taxes on any tract of land returned delinquent,

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T’or each tract of land entered in the delinquent land book,
to be paid out of the treasury, ten cents ................

lor any other writ not hereinbefore provided for, fifty
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For making out the bond upon issuing any such writ, admin-
istering necessary oaths, and writing proper affidavits,
fifty cents 2.0... . ccc ccc eee eee ete eeenes

Upon any such writ, for endorsing and filing the petition
therefor or when the writ is returned, for filing it, -with
the return thereon, fifteen cents ................05.

For filing the record upon an appeal or on such writ, fifteen.

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When the clerk of the court of appeals issues process on an
appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas, for making out the

bond, administering necessary oaths, writing proper affi-

davits, and endorsing on the process a certificate of the

execution of the bond, and of the names of the sureties
therein, seventy-five cents Lobe eee e ce ceeues ewww mem be

For docketing any case, a fee of eighteen cents ............. 5°.
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Or if the clerk elect, in lieu thereof, three cents............
For every thirty words entered on the rule book: when it is
_ first docketed, this fee for dccketing to be charged but
once, except that when any case, either at law or in
equity, 1s on the court docket, if at any term it be left un-

decided. without an order of continuance, there shall be ©

a fee for putting it on the docket at the next term of

twenty-five cents .......... ccc ccc cece cece cence ee eeee

After a decision by the circuit, corporation. or hustings court

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or court of appeals, as an appellate court, for issuing an

execution, making entry thereof in the execution book,

and recording the return, seventy-five cents............. $ .75
Unless the decision be by the court of appeals in a case

wherein the first judgment or decree was in a circuit or

eity court, in which case the fee shall be one dollar....... 1.00
For taxing the damages to which a party may be entitled

by reason of an injunction, appeal, writ of error, or super-

sedeas, forty cents ............ 0. ccc c eee e cece te eeeeeas .40