CHaP. 465.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section 814 of the Code of Virginia, as am
and re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1908, a ae De-
cember 17, 1903, approved March 27, 1914. B. 277.)

Approved March 22, 1916.

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 tenth.
nineteen hundred and three, and as amended by an act approved
December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and three, and as
amended by an act approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen
hundred and fourteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Sec. 814. Bonds of officers—Every county treasurer, the
sheriff of a county, county clerk, every clerk of a city court,
every clerk of a circuit court, and every commissioner of the
revenue, superintendent of the poor, county surveyor or super-
visor, constable, and overseer of the poor shall, at the time he
qualifies, give such bond as is required by section one hundred
and seventy-seven. The penalty of the bond of each officer, to
be determined within the limits herein prescribed, by the court,
judge, or clerk before whom he qualifies, shall be as follows:
Of the bond of the county treasurer, not less than double the
amount to be received annually by him; the penalty of the bond
of a sheriff of a county, not less than ten nor more than sixty
thousand dollars—if said county treasurer shall elect to give
as surety 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 be 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 less
than seventy-five per centum of the amount to be received an-
nually by him; if the sheriff of a county shall elect to give as
surety on his bond such guaranty or surety company, the pen-
alty 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 clerk shall bind him and his sure-
ties not only for the faithful discharge of his duties as clerk of
said court, but also for the faithful discharge of such other du-
ties as may be imposed upon him by law, in like manner and
with the same effect as if it were so expressed in the conditions
of his said bond; of the bond of the commissioner of the reve-
nue, not less than one thousand nor more than three thousand
dollars; of the bond of the superintendent of the poor, not less
than one thousand nor more than four thousand dollars; of the
bond of a county surveyor, not less than two thousand dollars;
of the bond of 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 over-
seer 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 ke
construed as requiring the Commonwealth or any county in the
State to pay the cost of said security when given by such guaran-
ty or security company.