Chap. 204.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2698 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, relating to the bonds of officers. [H 343]

Approved March 12, 1948
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section twenty-six hundred ninety-eight of the Code
of Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:
Section 2698. Every county treasurer, sheriff of a county,
sergeant of a city, county clerk, clerk of a city court, clerk of a
circuit court, commissioner of the revenue, superintendent of the
poor, county surveyor, supervisor, constable, and overseer of the
poor shall, at the time he qualifies, give such bond as is required by
section two hundred seventy-nine. The penalty of the bond of each
officer shall be determined by the court, judge, or clerk before
whom he qualifies, within the limits hereinafter prescribed; pro-
vided that the board of supervisors of any county and the council
of any city or town in this State may pay the costs of the premium
of said surety, when given by such surety or guaranty company.
The county treasurer may give as surety on his bond some
guaranty or security company doing business in the State of
Virginia and deemed sufficient by the court, judge or clerk before
whom he qualifies, and he may execute such bond on a form pre-
scribed by the attorney general and to be furnished by the comp-
troller to the clerks of the several courts, or he may give such
personal surety or security as may be deemed. sufficient by the
court or judge before whom he qualifies; provided, however, that
upon information, or upon motion of any taxpayer, after ten days’
notice to such treasurer, the said court, or the judge of such court
in vacation, may at any time require additional surety or sureties,
or security, for good cause shown. The penalty of said bonds shall
be such as the coyrt or judge may require, but not less than thirty
per centum of the amount to be received annually by him ; provided
however that in any county having a population of more than
thirty-five thousand and adjoining two cities lying wholly within

this State each of which has a population of more than fifty thou-
sand, all according to the last preceding United States census, the
bond of the treasurer may be in such penalty as the court or judge
prescribes below thirty per centum but not less than fifteen per
centum of the amount to be received annually by him. The premium
on such bond, if the surety be a corporate surety, shall be paid in
the proportion of one-third by the State and the remaining two-
thirds by the county or city of which the principal is a treasurer,
provided that the county of Pittsylvania shall not be required to
pay any part of the premium of the bond of its treasurer. The
penalty of the bond of a sheriff of a county, or sergeant of a city,
when he gives personal security, shall not be less than ten nor
more than sixty thousand dollars, but if said sheriff or sergeant
shall elect to give as surety on his bond a guaranty or surety com-
pany, the penalty of such bond shall not be less than five thousand
nor more than thirty thousand dollars. The bond of the county
clerk or clerk of a city or circuit court shall not be less than three
thousand dollars, and the bond of such clerk shall bind him and his
sureties, not only for the faithful discharge of his duties as clerk
of said court, but also for the faithful discharge of such other duties
as may be imposed upon him by law in like manner and with the
same effect as if it were so expressed in the conditions of his said
bond. The bond of the commissioner of the revenue shall not be
less than one thousand nor more than three thousand dollars. The
bond of the superintendent of the poor shall not be less than one
thousand nor more than four thousand dollars.

The bond of the supervisor shall not be less than one thousand
dollars nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars..