Chap. 329.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3505 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the payment out
of the State treasury of the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the counties
and cities of the State certain fees in felony and misdemeanor cases, and
to fix the maximum amount that the attorneys for the Commonwealth of
the respective counties and cities of the State shall be paid in fees out of the
State treasury, and to fix for them and to provide for the taxing and
payment of certain fees in scire facias and other proceedings upon for-
feited recognizances, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section 3528 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, approved March 22, 1916, and to repeal all other acts and parts
of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 16, 1918. [S B 207]

Approved March 20, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-five hundred and five of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3505. To attorneys for the Commonwealth.—The attorney
for the Commonwealth shall be paid out of the State treasury in all
felony and misdemeanor cases, and for expenditures made in the dis-
charge of his duties as follows:

For each trial of a felony case in his circuit or corporation court,
in which only one person is tried at a time, if the punishment pre-
scribed may be death, twenty dollars; if the punishment prescribed
is less than death, ten dollars; but where two or more persons are
jointly indicted and jointly tried for a felony, he shall be paid in
addition to the fees above provided ten dollars for each person more
than one so jointly tried. For each person prosecuted by him at a
preliminary hearing upon a charge of felony before any court or
justice of his county or city, he shall be paid five dollars. For every
nolle prosequi entered to an indictment in a felony case he shall be
paid five dollars; provided, there has not been a trial of such indict-
ment; provided further, that only one such fee shall be paid where
more than one nolle prosequi is entered against the same person.

For each person tried for a misdemeanor in his circuit or corpo-
‘ration court five dollars, and for each person prosecuted by him
before any court or justice of his county or city for a misdemeanor,
which he is required by law to prosecute, or upon an indictment
found by a grand jury, he shall be paid five dollars, unless the costs,
including such fee, are paid by the defendant; and in every misde-
meanor case so prosecuted the court or justice shall tax in the costs
and enter judgment for such misdemeanor fees.

In every scire facias or other proceeding upon a forfeited recog-
nizance where a judgment is awarded in behalf of the Commonwealth
there shall be taxed in the costs an attorney’s fee of ten dollars and
five per centum of the amount of the judgment, which when recov-
ered shall be paid to the attorney for the Commonwealth; provided,
however, that in no case shall the attorney for the Commonwealth
in any county or city receive in such fees from the State treasury
for the prosecution of criminal cases more in any one year than
the amount hereinafter stated.

The attorney for the Commonwealth for the county of Accomac,
six hundred and fifty dollars; of Albemarle, five hundred dollars;
of Alexandria, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Alleghany, three
hundred and fifty dollars; of Amelia, four hundred dollars; of Am-
herst, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Appomattox, five hundred
and fifty dollars; of Augusta, seven hundred dollars; of Bath, two
hundred and fifty dollars; of Bedford, fifteen hundred dollars; of
Bland, two hundred and fifty dollars; of Botetourt, four hundred
dollars; of Brunswick, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Bucking-
ham, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Buchanan, seven hundred
dollars; of Campbell, four hundred dollars; of Caroline, three hun-
dred and seventy-five dollars; of Carroll, three hundred and fifty
dollars; of Charles City, two hundred and fifty dollars; of Char-
lotte, three hundred dollars; of Chesterfield, four hundred and fifty
dollars ; of Clarke, three hundred dollars; of Craig, two hundred and
fifty dollars; of Culpeper, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; of
Cumberland, three hundred dollars ; of Dickenson, seven hundred and
fifty dollars; of Dinwiddie, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Eliza-
beth City, eight hundred dollars; of Essex, three hundred dollars ;
of Fairfax, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Fauquier, five hundred
dollars ; of Floyd, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Fluvanna, three
hundred dollars ; of Franklin, five hundred dollars ; of Frederick, three
hundred and seventy-five dollars ; of Giles, three hundred and seventy-
five dollars; of Gloucester, three hundred and seventy-five dollars ;
of Goochland, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; of Grayson,
four hundred and seventy-five dollars; of Greene, two hundred and
fifty dollars; of Greensville, three hundred and seventy-five dollars;
of Halifax, one thousand dollars; of Hanover, four hundred and fifty
dollars; of Henrico, one thousand dollars; of Henry, four hundred
and fifty dollars; of Highland, two hundred and fifty dollars; of Isle
of Wight, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; of James City,
eight hundred dollars ; of King and Queen, three hundred dollars; of
King George, two hundred and fifty dollars; of King William, three
hundred and seventy-five dollars; of Lancaster, three hundred dol-
lars; of Lee, five hundred dollars; of Loudoun, five hundred dollars ;
of Louisa, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Lunenburg, four hun-
dred and fifty dollars; of Madison, three hundred dollars; of
Mathews, two hundred and fifty dollars; of Mecklenburg, five hun-
dred dollars; of Middlesex, three hundred dollars; of Montgomery,
five hundred dollars; of Nansemond, five hundred dollars; of Nelson,
four hundred dollars; of New Kent, two hundred and fifty dollars;
of Norfolk, fifteen hundred dollars; of Northampton, four hundred
and fifty dollars; of Northumberland, two hundred and fifty dollars;
of Nottoway, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Orange, three hun-
dred and seventy-five dollars; of Page, three hundred and seventy-
five dollars; of Patrick, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; of
Pittsylvania, fifteen hundred dollars; of Powhatan, «three hundred
dollars ; of Prince Edward, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Prince
George, twelve hundred dollars; of Princess Anne, six hundred dol-
lars; of Prince William, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; of
Pulaski, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Rappahannock, three hun-
dred dollars; of Richmond, two hundred and fifty dollars; of Roan-
oke, four hundred and fifty dollars; of Rockbridge, eight hundred
dollars ; of Rockingham, five hundred dollars; of Russell, twelve hun-
dred dollars; of Scott, five hundred dollars; of Shenandoah, three
hundred and seventy-five dollars; of Smyth, four hundred and fifty
dollars; of Southampton, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; of
Spotsylvania, three hundred dollars; of Stafford, two hundred and
fifty dollars; of Surry, three hundred dollars; of Sussex, three hun-
dred dollars ; of Tazewell, seven hundred and fifty dollars ; of Warren,
three hundred dollars; of Warwick, six hundred dollars; of Wash-
ington, five hundred and fifty dollars; of Westmoreland, three hun-
dred dollars; of Wise, twelve hundred dollars; of Wythe, four hun-
dred and fifty dollars; of York, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
The attorney for the Commonwealth for the city of Richmond,
twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars ; of the city of Norfolk, twenty-
two hundred and fifty dollars; of the city of Petersburg, seventeen
hundred and fifty dollars; of the city of Lynchburg, fifteen hundred
dollars; of the city of Roanoke, seventeen hundred and fifty dollars ;
of the city of Alexandria, seven hundred and fifty dollars; of the
city of Portsmouth, fifteen hundred dollars; of the city of Danville,
fifteen hundred dollars; of the city of Manchester, five hundred dol-
lars; of the city of Staunton, five hundred dollars; of the city of
Charlottesville, five hundred dollars; of the city of Winchester, five
hundred dollars; of the city of Fredericksburg, five hundred dollars ;
of the city of Bristol, five hundred dollars; of the city of Radford,
five hundred dollars; of the city of Buena Vista, three hundred dol-
lars; of the city of Newport News, seventeen hundred and fifty dol-
lars; of the city of Clifton Forge, four hundred and fifty dollars ;
of the city of Hopewell, seventeen hundred and fifty dollars; of the
city of Suffolk, three hundred dollars.

2. An act entitled an act to provide for the payment out of the
State treasury of the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the coun-
ties and cities of the State certain fees in felony and misdemeanor
cases, and to fix the maximum amount that the attorneys for the
Commonwealth of the respective counties and cities of the State
shall be paid in fees out of the State treasury, and to fix for them
and to provide for the taxing and payment of certain fees in scire
facias and other proceedings upon forfeited recognizances, and to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tion thirty-five hundred and twenty-eight of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, approved March twenty-second, nineteen hun-
dred and sixteen, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts .in
conflict with this act, approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred
and eighteen, is hereby repealed.

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