Chap. 232.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Twenty-Three of
Chapter Forty-Nine of the Code of Virginia of 1860.

Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty-three of chapter forty-nine of the Code of Vir-
ginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 23. But the circuit, county, or corporation court of any
county or corporation, in the case provided for in the twen-
tieth section, instead of leaving the duties of sheriff or ser-
geant to be performed by a coroner or constable, or in any
case where there is no officer to execute the processes and or-
ders of said court, may appoint acrier for said court, who
shall perform all the duties pertaining to the office of sheriff
or sergeant therein, except such as relate to the collection of
the taxes, levies, militia fines, and officers’ fees. And though
persons be acting in any county as sheriff or deputy sheriff,
or in any corporation as sergeant or deputy sergeant, yet when
it is unfit from any cause for the sheriff or sergeant or their
deputies to serve any process, or to Summon a jury, the court
in which the case is pending, may, instead of leaving these du-
ties to be performed by a coroner or constable, appeml some
~~ er person to perform the same.”

This act shall be in force trom its passage.