Chap. 154.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5904-g of the Code of Virginia,

as heretofore amended, relating to fees and costs to be collected on cases tried

by county courts. [H B 244]
Approved March 7, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section fifty-nine hundred and four-g of the Code of Virginia, as
heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 5904-g. Neither the justice, substitute justice nor the
clerk shall receive any other compensation, either directly or indirectly
for his services as such, except that provided for in this chapter of the
Code. The clerk shall collect no trial fee from the plaintiff where the
amount in controversy does not exceed fifty dollars, exclusive of
interest and costs, but shall collect from the plaintiff a trial fee of one
dollar where the amount in controversy exceeds fifty dollars but does
not exceed three hundred dollars, exclusive of interest and cost, and a
trial fee of two dollars and fifty cents where the amount in controversy
is in excess of three hundred dollars. The trial fee shall be taxed as
part of the costs. All fees and costs, to which the said justice may be
entitled shall be paid monthly into the county treasury, from the
proceeds of which, insofar as possible, the salaries of the justice and
substitute justice shall be paid. Any surplus shall belong to the general
county fund.