Chap. 422.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 305, acts of assembly 1897-’8,
entitled “an act to require the clerks of the county and corporation courts of
this State to report to their respective courts a list of all fines reported by jus-
tices of the peace under section 718 of the Code of Virginia, what lists shall
contain, and to require the auditor of public accounts to furnish blank forms
upon which such lists shall be made,” approved February 11, 1898.

Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
‘three hundred and five, acts of assembly, eighteen hundred and ninety-
seven-’eight, entitled “an act to require the clerks of the county and cor-
poration courts of this State to report to their respective courts a list of
all fines reported by justices of the peace under section seven hundred
and eighteen of the Code of Virginia, what lists shall contain, and t«
require the auditor of public accounts to furnish blank forms upon which
such list shall be made,” approved February eleven, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. The clerks of the circuit and corporation courts of this State be.
and they are hereby, required to report to their respective courts on the
first day of each term thereof a list of all fines reported by jystices of the
peace under section seven hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia
for the month next preceding, which lists shall contain the names of the
persons fined, the amount of fine, whether paid to the clerk or not,
whether execution or capias pro fine has been issued therefor, and to
what rules the process is returnable. And in cases where the executions
have been returned unsatisfied the clerk shall report that fact also, sc
that the court may determine whether or not capias pro fine shall issuc
as provided by section scven hundred and twenty-seven of the Code of
Virginia.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the said courts to examine said lists and
enter the fact of record that said lists have been returned, and order the
same to be filed, and where said lists show that proper process has not
been issued for said fines to order the clerk to issue the same in the man-
ner now provided by law.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts, as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act, to make out and furnish to the
several clerks proper forms upon which the lists required by section one
of this aot shall be made. The said olerk shall, on the first day of the
next succeeding circuit or corporation court, post in front of the court-
house such lists of all the fines so reported, with the names of the parties

fined and the amount of each fine, and whether the same has been paid
or not.

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