Chap. 220.—An ACT requiring clerks of courts to make report to the State
registrar of vital statistics of all divorces, granted and pending.
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Approved March 15, 1915S,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
clerk of every circuit or corporation court of this State shall be
required to file with the State registrar of vital statistics a report
showing the list of divorces granted in his court, as well as those
instituted and refused, withdrawn, otherwise disposed of, or pend-
ing. Such report shall be made on or before the first day of
March of each year, for the year next preceding the first day of
January.

The reports shall include alleged cause, sex and color of com-
plainant, place of marriage, number of children in family, and
duration of marriage before divorce.

Such reports shall be filed and presented in the said registrar’s
office, and from them the registrar shall prepare annually an ab-
stract of divorces in each county and corporation and make a report
of such divorces to the general assembly at each regular session.

There shall be allowed to the clerks of the county and corpo-
ration courts a compensation of three cents for every divorce re-
ported, to be paid out of the treasury on warrant of the auditor
of public accounts, to be issued to the clerks severally entitled
thereto, upon the filing of the report required in this act to be
made to the State registrar. The State registrar shall certify to
the auditor of public accounts the number of divorces instituted
and reported by each clerk.