Chap. 181.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6371 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the destruction of manuscript records and the binding of printed
records in the clerk’s offices of the Supreme Court of Appeals. [H B 220]

Approved March 13, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
sixty-three hundred and seventy-one of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6371. Court of Appeals to direct the clerks of the court to
destroy manuscript records; binding of printed records with briefs of
counsel.—The Supreme Court of Appeals may, whenever in its opinion
it shall be necessary to relieve the clerk’s offices, direct its clerks to
destroy the manuscript of records in cases where the records have been
printed, and which have been decided for two years, and in cases in
which writs of error or appeals have been refused for more than ten
years, provided that no manuscript shall be destroyed in a case in which
an opinion was delivered by the court upon refusal of the appeal or
vrit. The clerks of the said courts shall, as soon as a case is decided,
cause the printed record in the case to be bound, along with the briefs
of counsel, in the same manner that Acts of Assembly are bound; and
the clerks of the said courts shall, when they collect the writ tax in
each case, collect of the appellant, or plaintiff in error, as the case may
be, a fee of fifty cents to pay the cost of such binding.