Chap. 361.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 22, 25, 26, 29 and
37 of the 108th Chapter of the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Register
of Marriages, Births and Deaths, and to Repeal Sections 23 and 24 of said
Chapter.

Approved March 26, 1872.

1. Be it ‘enacted by the general assembly, That sections
twenty-two, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-nine, and
seven, of chapter one hundred and eight, of the Code of Virgi-
nia, edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“©§ 22. The assessor or commissioner shall alphabetically
arrange each of the books so to be kept by him, and the same
shall in other respects be in the form to be furnished and in the
manner prescribed by the auditor of public accounts, and shall
make and subscribe an affidavit therein to the effect that he
has pursued the directions in this chapter according to the
best of his skill. He shall make two copies of each of said
books, and shall return one copy of each to the clerk of the
county court, and the remaining copies to the auditor of public
accounts, on or before the first day of July, annually.”

Ҥ 25. It shall be the duty of every such clerk, without re-
cording the same, to file each copy so returned to him in his
office, arranged in such manner that the copies of any year may
be accessible, and may be examined by any party interested
therein. In addition to the compensation now allowed by law
to assessors or commissioners of the revenue, the sum of ten
cents shall be paid to every such assessor or commissioner for
each birth and death listed in his township under the provi-
sions of this chapter. Upon the certificate of said clerk that
the return required to be made to him by the preceding section
has been made according to law, and upon the receipt by the
auditor of the return required to be made to him, the same
being in the form required and in the time prescribed, the
amount allowed by this section shall be paid, upon warrant of
the auditor of public accounts, out of the public treasury.”

“‘§ 26. On or before the first of March in each year the clerk
of every county or corporation court shall transmit to the au-
ditor of public accounts a copy of his register of marriages,
and so much of his record, made at the time of issuing such
licenses, as is not contained in his said register of marriages,
which was taken by him within the year next preceding the
first day of January, distinguishing by appropriate columns or
notes the licenses issued in which the minister's certificate of
marriage has not been returned, and the licenses containing
such certificate.”

‘““§ 29. Hereafter there shall be allowed to the clerk of the
county and corporation courts a compensation of three cents
for every marriage reported to said clerks by those required by
law to do so, to be paid out of the treasury, on the warrant of
the auditor of public accounts, to be issued to the clerks seve-
rally entitled thereto upon the return of the copy of such
record required by law to be made to the said auditor.”

“8 37. If any clerk of a court fail to perform any duty re-
quired by the fifteenth section of this act, he shall forfeit ten
dollars for every such offence. And if he fail to perform any
duty required of him by the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth sec-
tions, he shall for every such offence forfeit fifty dollars.”

2. Sections twenty-three and twenty-four of the said chapter
one hundred and eight of the said Code shall be and the same
are hereby repealed.