Chap. 430.—An ACT to simplify and prevent duplication of work and to reduce the
cost of the preparation of a transcript of the record and proceedings to accom-
pany a petition for a writ of error or appeal or supersedeas from or to the
supreme court of appeals to or from any judgment, decree, or order of any
court of record, and to provide for payment therefor. fH B

Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever
a party seeks a writ of error, or appeal or supersedeas from or to the
supreme court of appeals to or from any judgment, decree, or order of
any court of record and presents to the clerk of the inferior court a bill
or certificate of exceptions, duly signed by the judge, together with an
accurate typewritten copy thereof, certified by said judge, although
such bill or certificate.of eXceptions contains a transcript of the evidence
or instructions given or refused, such clerk shall accept such copy as and
for a part of the transcript of such record, and shall so certify the same,
for which service he shall be entitled to the sum of five dollars, which
sum of five dollars shall be in lieu of the sum which he would be other-
wise entitled to under section thirty-four hundred and eighty-four of the
Code of Virginia, as amended.