Chap. 411.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3354 of the Code of Virginia.
Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-three hundred and fifty-four of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3354. How person failing to.attend and give evidence, or to produce
a writing or document, proceeded against: prepayment of mileage and
attendance.—If any person, after being served with such summons, fail
to attend to give evidence, or to produce such writing or document, ac-
cording to the summons, the court whose clerk issued the summons, or
if it was not issued by a clerk of the court, the circuit court of the county
or the circuit or corporation court of the corporation, in which the at-
tendance was desired, or the judge of such cirenit or corporation court
in vacation, or the chancery court of the city of Richmond, or the judge
thereof in vaeation, where the attendance is desired before a person act-
ing under the authority of such chancery court, on a special report
thereof by the person or persons before whom there was the failure to
attend, and on proof that there was paid to him (if it was required by
endorsement on the process) a reasonable time before he was required to
attend, the allowance for one day’s attendance and his mileage and tolls.
shall, after service of a notice to or rule to show cause against it, if none
be shown, fine him not exceeding twenty dollars, to the use of the party
for whom he was summoned, and said court or judge may proceed, by ai-
tachment, to compel him to attend and give his evidence, or produce such
writing or document at such time and place as said court or judge may
deem fit. The witness shall, moreover, be liable to any party aggrieved
for damages.

2. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of February,
nineteen hundred and four.