Chap. 450.—An ACT to require cach bank or banking institution in the state to
report to the auditor of pubhe accounts all money deposited in such bank or
banking institution by order of any court.

Approved February 23, 1>98.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That every
bank or banking institution in this commonwealth, in or with which any
money has been deposited, within the last seven years, by order of any
court of this state, such deposit being made to the credit of any fund in
said court, or under the control or in the custody of said court, and
such fund or any part thereof remains in said bank or banking institu-
tion, such bank or banking institution shall, in sixty days from the time
this act shall take effect, report to the auditor of public accounts the
amount of money thus deposited, the amount thereof still remaining in
said bank or banking institution, the court by whose order such deposit
was made, the date of such de posit, and the style of suit or proceeding
in such court wherein the order of deposit was made. The auditor of
public accounts shall, immediately after the passage of this act, forward a
copy thereof to each hank and banking institution in this commonwealth;
and any bank or banking institution failing to make the report provided
for by this act, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor
more than twenty dollars for each day’s continuance of such failure from
the time a copy of this act shall be received by it, such fine to be re-
coverable upon motion of the auditor of public accounts and paid into
the treasury of the state. .
2. The auditor of public accounts shall enter in a book to be kept for
that purpose the style of suit or other proceeding in which the order of
deposit was made, the court in which such order was made, the amount
deposited, the date of deposit, and the place where deposited.

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