Chap. 332.—An AOT to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved 9th of
July, 1870, entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 23 of Chap-
ter 49 of the Code of 1860, to Provide for the Appointment of Criers or
Persons to Perform Certain Duties where there are no Sheriffs or
Sergeants,

Approved March 23, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act en-
titled “an act to amend and re-enact section twenty-third of
chapter forty-nine of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty,” approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and
seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 23. But the circuit, county or corporation court of any
county or corporation, in the case provided for in the twentieth
section, instead of leaving the duties of sheriff or sergeant to
be performed by a coroner or constable, or in any case where
there is no officer to execute the processes or orders of said
court, may appoint acrier for said court, who shall perform
all of the duties pertaining to the office of sheriff or sergeant
therein, except such as relate to the collection of taxes, levies,
militia fines and officers’ fees, and though a person be acting
in any county as sheriff or deputy sheriff, or in any corpora-
tion as sergeant or deputy sergeant, yet when it is unfit, from
any cause, for the sheriff or sergeant, or their deputies, to
serve any process or to summon a jury, the court in which the
case is pending may, instead of leaving these duties to be
performed by a coroner or constable, appoint some other per-
son to perform the same. It shall be the duty of such court
to take from any person so appointed, or from any person who
has been appointed and is still acting crier, a bond conditioned
for the faithful performance of his duties, in such penalty as
it may deem sufficient; and the same proceedings may be had
thereon as upon a bond given by a sheriff.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.