Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 3,
1898, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of courts shall keep
a record of all taxes and other public moneys collected by them, and to require
them to pay the same into the treasury, as heretofore amended, and to reped
section 3 of the said act. [H B 22]

Approved February 17, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the the general assembly of Virginia, That
section four of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, entitled an act to prescribe the mode in which clerks of
courts shall keep a record of all taxes and other public moneys col-
lected by them and to require them to pay the same into the treasury,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

Section 4. It shall be the duty of each clerk, on the twenty-eighth
day of February, and the thirty-first day of August, to make out a
statement, upon forms prepared by the auditor of public accounts, o
all taxes and other money belonging to the Commonwealth collected,
or which should have been collected, by him during the preceding six
months; which statement shall be signed by the clerk and sent to the
auditor of public accounts, and the clerk shall, on or before the fif-
teenth day of March, and on or before the fifteenth day of Septem-
ber, pay into the treasury the amount of taxes collected by him, or
which should have been collected by him, after deducting a commis-
sion of five centum thereon; provided, the aggregate amount collected,
or which should have been collected, does not exceed for the six months
collections reported the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, but
should the amount exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, then the clerk
shall deduct on the amount in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars,
three per centum commission.

~ Section three of the said act, as amended, is hereby repealed.