Chap. 165.,—An ACT tu Amend and Ke-enact Sections sixty-three and sev-
enty-seven of an Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Pre-
scribing the Duties and Compensation of Certain Township Officers,
Approved July 11th, 1870, and Acts Amendatory thereof, approved
March 19th, 1872 (p. 238).

"Approved March 13, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections
sixty-three and seventy-seven, of an act approved March
nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled an
act prescribing the duties and compensation of certain town-
ship officers, approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and
seventy, and acts amendatory thereof, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

§ 63. The jurisdiction, powers, duties, liabilities and com-
pensation of justices of the peace and constables shall be the
same prescribed by the laws in force when the constitution was
adopted, so far as they are not in conflict with the said consti-
tution, or any law passed in pursuance thereof, and such as
may be hereafter prescribed by law, except that justices of the
peace shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents for the trial by
warrant in which the commonwealth is not plaintiff; and in
case of recovery and to be taxed as other costs are; and except
that constables shall qualify and execute bond in a penalty of
not less than two thousand dollars, in the same manner as pre-
scribed in this act for other township officers, and after the
first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, shall ex-
ecute civil process, serve any warrant for any claim and receive
and levy execution issued in any civil proceeding, and shall per-
form all the duties required of constables by the laws in force
on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

§ 77. The duties, powers and liabilities of township collec-
tors, as to all taxes and county and township levies which may
pass into their hands for collection, shall be the same as pre-
scribed in chapter thirty-six of the Code of Virginia (edition
of eighteen hundred and sixty), as amended by act approved
day of , eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for
the collection of taxes and county levies, except so far as the
same may conflict with this act, and except. that the jurisdic-
tion, powers and duties of a collector shall not extend beyond
his township, except for the collection of taxes from tax-payers
absconding or removing their effects from the limits of the
township, and said collector shall in all respects have the same
power as to levy and sale for taxes, and in all respects be sub-
ject to the same laws prescribed in said chapter in the collec-
tion of taxes and county levies, so far as the same are applica-
ble. And further, the powers, duties, liabilities and compen-
sation of township collectors, after the first day of July,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, shall be the same as now
required by law of constables in the execution of any civil pro-
cess, warrant for small claims, or any other process or order,
in such townships of the several counties in which there may
be no constable; but the township collector shall not perform
the duties now required of constables, which pertain to the
preservation of the peace, warrants in criminal cases, search
warrants, and arrests of criminals.

2. This act shall be in force from and after the first of July,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three.