CHAPTER 89

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-185 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to fees charged by justices of the peace. oH 61]

Approved February 22, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14-135 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 14-135. <A justice of the peace may, for services performed by
him by virtue of his office, charge the following fees, to-wit:

(1) For taking and certifying the acknowledgment of any deed or
other writing, fifty cents.

For administering and certifying an oath, unless it be the affi-
davit of a witness, or acknowledgment of bail, or issuing process of
attachment, twenty-five cents.

(3) For taking and certifying affidavits or depositions of witnesses,
when done in an hour, one dollar.

(4) If not done in an hour, for any additional time, at the rate per
hour of seventy-five cents.

(5) For issuing any warrant in which the Commonwealth is not
plaintiff, including the issuing of subpoenas, fifty cents, provided, however,
that * the charge therefor shall be one dollar in cities having a population
between forty thousand and forty-five thousand, or having a population
between eighty thousand and ninety thousand, or having a population
between two hundred thousand and two hundred twenty thousand.

(6) For other services, a justice of the peace shall have the same
fee as the clerk of a circuit or city court for like services. *