Chap. 383.—An ACT to Amend Section 24 of Chapter 61. Code of Virginia,
in Relation to Illegal Tolls on Turnpibes.

Approved November 2, 1870

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the twenty-fourth section of chapter sixty-one of the Code of
Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty), be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 24, If any collector shall receive for tolls more than is
lawful, the company or person in whose service he may be as
such collector, shall pay to the party aggrieved thereby the
amount unlawfully received and ten dollars besides, which sum
may be recovered, on motion, before the court of the county
wherein the said unlawful tolls were received, after ten days’
notice, which may be served by leaving a copy of the same
with the collector so unlawfully receiving said tolls, or with
any member of his family over sixteen years of age, and giving
information of its purport to said member of his family; or in
the absence of said collector and all such members of his fam-
ily, by posting the said copy on the front door of his abode.”

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