Chap. 810.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4082 of the code of Virginia,
as to payment of witnesses in misdemeanor cases.

Approved March 8, 1898.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four thousand and eighty-two of the code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 4082. When commonwealth pays witnesses in case of misdemeanor.
Payment shall not be made out of the treasury to a witness attending
for the commonwealth, in any prosecution for a misdemeanor, unless it
appears that the sum to which the witness is entitled cannot be obtained
(if it be a case wherein there is a prosecutor, and the defendant is con-
victed) by reason of theinsolvency of the defendant, or, if it be a case
in which there is no prosecutor, by reason of the acquittal or insolvency
of the defendant, or other cause: provided, that not more than three
witnesses shall be paid out of the state treasury in any case of misde-
meanor tried before a justice.

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