Chap. 372.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the First Section of an Act
entitled an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County Offi-
cers, approved July 11, 1870.

Approved November 1, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of an act entitled an act prescribing the duties
and compensation of county officers, approved July eleventh,
eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

Ҥ1. The duties, compensation, and liabilities of sheriffs,
attorneys for the commonwealth, and clerks of the county and
circuit courts, shall be the same as are now or may hereafter
be prescribed by law, except that the sheriff, after the year
eighteen hundred and seventy, shall not collect the state reve-
nue or county levy, and that the attorney for the common-
wealth shall not be allowed a fee in any case of felony or mis-
demeanor, unless the same be prosecuted to conviction or a
judgment for the commonwealth. Said officers shall be in all
respects subject to existing laws relating to their respective
offices, so far as the same are applicable. The officers men-
tioned in this section shall, at the time of their election, reside
in the county for which they are elected, and the removal of
any such officer from the county in which he resided when
elected shall vacate his office.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.