Chap. 83.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved November 1,
1870, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact the Ist Section of an Act
entitled an Act Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County Ofli-
cers, approved July 11, 1870.

Approved February 21, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section first of the act entitled an act prescribing the duties
and compensation of county officers, approved July eleventh,
eighteen hundred and seventy, as amended by an act to amend
and re-enact the same, approved November first, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Ҥ 1. The duties, compensation, and liabilities of sheriffs, at-
torneys for the commonwealth, and clerks of the county and
circuit courts, shall be the same as are now or may hereafter
be prescribed by law, except that the sheriff, after the year
eighteen hundred and seventy, shall not collect the state reve-
nue or county levy, and that the attorney for the common-
wealth shall not be allowed a fee in any case of misdemeanor,
unless the same be prosecuted to conviction as a judgment for
the commonwealth, and except as provided in the act ap-
proved January sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, enti-
tled an act supplementary to the act providing for the collec-
tion of the state revenue and county levies for the year eighteen
hundred and seventy-one. Said officers shall be, in all respects,
subject to existing laws relative to their respective offices, so
far as the same are applicable. The officers mentioned in this
section shall, at the time of their election, reside in the county
for which they are elected: provided, that if no practicing
lawyer resides in any county for which a county court is pro-
vided: by law, then it shall be lawful to elect a non-resident as
commonwealth’s attorney, and the removal of any such officer
from the county in which he resided when elected, except to
the county to which he is so elected, shall vacate his office.”

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