CHAP. 285.—An ACT to repeal section 3509 of the Code of Virginia, and
to amend and re-enact section 3508, as amended by an act approved
December 31, 1903, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act
approved March 13 1908, a relation to the fees of sheriffs, sergeants,
criers, coroners and constab les. (H. B. 270.)

Approved March 18, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-five hundred and nine of the Code of Virginia be,
ind the same is hereby repealed.

Be it further enacted that section thirty-five hundred and
ight of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as
© read as follows:

Of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.

Sec. 3508. For serving on any person a declaration in eject-
nent or an order, notice, summons, or other process when the
ody is not taken and making return thereof, fifty cents, except
he fee for summoning a witness or a garnishee on an attach-
nent shall be thirty cents.

For serving on any person an attachment or other process
erp which the body is taken and making return thereof, one
ollar.

For serving a warrant under chapter one hundred and forty,
ifty cents, but this provision shall not apply to cities having a
opulation in excess of 10,000, but in such cities said officers
hall receive thirty cents for serving of a warrant.

For receiving a person in jail, twenty-five cents.

For discharging a person from jail, twenty-five cents.

For carrying a prisoner, other than a prisoner arrested for
elony or misdemeanor, to or from jail, each mile of necessary
ravel either in going or returning, five cents

For removing a person, by virtue of a warrant issued under
hapter thirty-eight by a justice, or one of the overseers of the
oor (to be charged to said overseers), for each mile of necessary
ravel, either in going or returning, five cents.

For taking any bond, sixty cents.

When a petit jury is sworn in court, for impaneling and sum-
10ning such jury, one dollar and fifty cents

For serving any order of court not otherwise provided for,
fty cents.
When a jury is summoned upon a writ of ad quod damnum,
or any inquest in vacation, for summoning them, one dollar.

And for attending at the place of their meeting, one dollar.

And if the jury attend there, and a verdict or inquisition be
found and returned, two dollars.

Provided, however, that where more than one writ of ad
quod damnum is executed by the same jury in the same case
upon the same summons, the sheriff shall have but one fee for
summoning the jury and attending at their place of meeting,
and shall be allowed but one dollar additional for each addi-
tional inquisition found and returned.

For serving a writ of possession, one dollar and fifty cents.

For serving a writ of distringas on a judgment or decree for
personal property, if the specific thing be taken, one dollar and
fifty cents.

For keeping and supporting any person confined in jail, for
the same fees as provided in section thirty-five thirty two.

For search and return of writ of distringas or detinue where
the property is not found, fifty cents.

For keeping and supporting any horse or mule distrained or
levied on, for each day when stall fed, forty cents.

And for each day when pastured, ten cents.

For each hog or head of cattle, per day, five cents.

For each sheep or goat, per day, five cents.

The circuit court of any county or the corporation or hust-
ings court of a corporation may, at any time, fix or alter the
rates to be henceforth paid in such county or corporation for
keeping and supporting any person in jail, or any horse or live
stock, but the rates so fixed or altered shall never exceed those
hereinbefore mentioned. The officer shall be paid any necessary
expense incurred by him in keeping property not before men-
tioned or in removing any property; and when, after distrain-
ing or levying on tangible property he neither sells nor receives
payment, and either takes no forthcoming bond, or takes one
which is not forfeited, he shall, if in no default, have (in addi-
tion to the sixty cents for a bond, if one was taken) a fee of
three dollars.

Unless this is more than one-half of what his commission
would have amounted to if he had received payment, in which
case he shall (whether a bond was taken or not), have a fee of
at least one dollar and so much more as is necessary to make
the said half. )

The commission to be included in a forthcoming bond, when
one is taken, shall be five per centum on the first three hundred
dollars of the money for which the distress or levy is, and two
per centum on the residue of said money; but such commission
shall not be received unless the bond is forfeited or paid (in-
cluding the commission) to the plaintiffs, and of whatever in-
terest may accrue on such bond, or the execution of judgment
thereon, the officer shall be entitled to his proportionable share
thereof, on account of his fees included in said bond. An officer
receiving payment in money or selling goods shall receive the
like commission of five per centum on the first three hundred
dollars of the money paid or proceeding from the sale, and two
per centum on the residue, except that when such payment or
sale is on an execution on a forthcoming bond, his commission
ach only be half what it would be if the execution were no! on
suc nd.