CHAPTER 287

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-183 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to fees of trial justices and clerks in civil cases. rH 408]

Approved March 15, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14-133 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 14-133. A trial justice, appointed under the provisions of Chapter
2 of Title 16, and his clerk shall charge and collect for services rendered
by them in civil actions and proceedings the following fees only:

(1) For issuing any civil warrant, attachment, summons in inter-
rogatory proceedings or summons in garnishment when there is one
defendant, fifty cents, and when there are two or more defendants in the
same warrant, attachment or summons, fifty cents for the first defendant
and twenty-five cents for each additional defendant;
mee For issuing a summons for a witness, twenty-five cents for each
witness ; |

(3) For continuing or trying and giving judgment on a civil war-
rant, notice of motion, attachment or in a garnishment proceeding,
including taxing costs, issuing the first execution, filing papers upon
return of executions, and issuing one abstract of judgment, one dollar,
to be paid by the plaintiff at or before the time of * granting a continu-
ance or trying the action, provided, that only one such fee shall be
charged and collected in the same action or proceeding;

(4) For issuing each additional execution and writ and each addi-
tional abstract of judgment, twenty-five cents;

(5) For approving any bond, fifty cents;

(6) For taking affidavits and administering oaths and affirmations,
twenty-five cents; but no fee shall be charged or collected for taking
affidavits or administering oaths or affirmations in any proceeding pend-
ing before the trial justice.