Chap. 456.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2406 of the Code of
Virginia. : [H B 58]
Approved March 27, 1922.

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

Sec. 2406. The clerk of every court of record to remit to the
auditor of public accounts monthly when the amount of funds in his
hands due the State amount to five hundred dollars or more, or when-
ever the amount due the State in his hands shall amount to five hun-
dred dollars—The clerk of every court of record shall, whenever the
amount of funds in his hands due the State amount to as much as
five hundred dollars monthly between the first and fifteenth day of
each month remit to the auditor of public accounts the amount of
funds in his hands due the Commonwealth, collected prior to the first
of said month, by certified check make payable to the order of the
State treasurer, or as otherwise provided by law, such payment to be
credited.to him and allowed him in the settlements he is required by
law to make with the said auditor. Any clerk failing to comply with
the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars
for each offense to be recovered by a motion in the circuit court of
the city of Richmond, made by the attorney general of the State, at
the request of the auditor of public accounts.