Chap. 258.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3511 of the Code of Virginia
as to fees in criminal cases. fH B 170]

Approved March 19, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-five hundred and eleven of the Code of nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted as
follows:

Section 3511. When certain officers not to be paid fees in criminal
cases; allowance, in lieu of fees, for serving process in criminal cases
in cities —No justice, constable, sergeant, captain or sergeant of police
who receives a salary or allowance for general service out of the treas-
ury of his county, city or corporation shall receive any fees for services
in a criminal case from the State, city, or county, but all such fees to
said officers shall be paid by the party against whom judgment is ren-
dered; but the judge of any city or corporation court may make an
allowance not exceeding two hundred dollars a year to each of two
constables, sergeants, or policemen of such city or corporation, to be
paid in lieu of all fees for serving criminal process of any kind, which
allowance shall be paid out of the treasury; provided that in cities of
more than one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants such allow-
ance as aforesaid may be increased to six hundred dollars, but when
any incorporated communities have become cities of the second class
under chapter one hundred and seventeen, then the allowance above
provided for shall be made by the said circuit court of the said city.
The provisions of this section shall not prevent the sheriff of a county
or the sergeant of a city from being paid out of the treasury of the
State the fee for receiving a person in jail when first committed
authorized by section thirty-five hundred and ten of this Code to be
paid the jailor, the sheriff of a county and the sergeant of a city being
by the provisions of section twenty-eight hundred and sixty-eight of
this Code the keeper of the jail.