Chap. 247.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 24 and 25 of Chapter
184 of the Code of Virginia, in Relation to the Collection of Fee Bills.

Approved March 29, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections
twenty-four and twenty-five of chapter one hundred and
eighty-four of the Code of Virginia (edition eighteen hundred
and sixty), be and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

““§ 24, Any officer mentioned in this chapter, or the personal
representative of a deceased clerk, may deliver fee bills, duly
signed, to any sheriff or collector of taxes other than the county
or city treasurer, who shall receive and endeavor to collect the
same. A sheriff or collector may distrain therefor, or for any
bills due himself, such property of the person to whom the
fees are charged as might be levied on under a writ of fieri fa-
cias against him, except as hereinafter mentioned; and the
ninth, tenth, and eleventh sections, of the thirty-sixth chapter,
shall apply to such fee bills in like manner as to taxes.

Ҥ 25. Every sheriff or collector, to whom such fee bills are
so delivered, shall, within six months next after such delivery,
account therefor with the officer or personal representative enti-
tled thereto, by returning such as he may not have collected,
with an endorsement thereon, that the person charged with
the fees has no estate in his county or corporation out of which
the same could be made, and by paying to such. officer or rep-
resentative the amount of all not so returned, deducting a
commission for himself of ten per centum on said amount. If
he fail so to do, judgment may be obtained, on motion, against
said sheriff or collector and his sureties, and his and their per-
sonal representatives, or against any deputy who may have
signed the receipt for said fees, or his personal representative,
for the amount with which such sheriff or collector or deputy
is chargeable, and damages thereon, not exceeding fifteen per
centum per annum, from the expiration of said six months.
Such judgments may be on motion in the circuit, county, or
corporation court of the county or corporation in which said
sheriff or collector resides; and if the fees be due to a clerk
of the court of appeals, it may be in any circuit, county, or
corporation court where such court of appeals is held. On
such motion, any receipt for fees mentioned in the notice, as
signed by any person, shall be deemed to be his signature, un-
less an affidavit be filed denying it.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.