CHAPTER 136
An Act to amend and reenact § 14-124 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain fees to be charged by clerks of courts of record in chancery
cases.
[H 101]
Approved March 4, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14-124 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:
§ 14-124. A clerk of a circuit or other court of record mé
services performed by the virtue of his office in chancery cases, |
the following fees, to-wit:

(1) For issuing an attachment or a summons, with an endorse-
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(2) For process for which no higher fee is allowed.........................

(3) When more than three exhibits are returned with a com-
missioner’s report, but not annexed thereto, for endorsing and
filing such exhibits a fee, not for each, but for all filed with the
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(4) If papers be filed on the side of the plaintiff or defendant,
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(5) And if papers be filed on the side of defendants, for which
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(6) For entering in the rule book the return of all process
returnable to the same rule day, a fee, not for each defendant named
therein nor for every such process but for the whole of the defend-
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(7) For all rules entered in any case on the same side at the
rules for one month, when anything is done on such side at such
rules besides entering or filing a pleading or continuing the case........

(8) For any execution, the entry of the case in the execution
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In lieu of the fees hereinabove set forth:

* (a) For all services rendered in any chancery case, to be
paid by the plaintiff at the time of instituting the swt, including
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(b) In divorce cases, where there is a merger of a decree of
separation from bed and board into a decree of divorce a vinculo,
the fee prescribed by (a) above shall include the furnishing of duly
certified copies of both such decrees.