Chap. 303.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 3, Chapter 48,
Code of 1860, as Amended by an Act approved March 18th, 1872, in
Relation to the Compensation of Justices of the Peace.

Approved March 31, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three of chapter forty-eight of the Code of eighteen
hundred and sixty, as amended by an act approved March
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, in relation to
the compensation of justices of the peace, shall be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. The justices of the peace shall receive, for taking depo-
sitions, for taking and certifying the acknowledgment of any
deed or writing, or taking and certifying the privy examination
and acknowledgment of a married woman, the same fees as
now allowed by law to a notary public, to be paid by the per-
son for whom the service is rendered. Each and every justice
of the peace shall receive, as a compensation for every oath
administered, not in court, and every acknowledgment taken
by him, and requiring his certificate, including acknowledg-
ments of bail, and for every process of attachment issued by
him, the sum of twenty-five cents, to be paid by the person or
persons for whom the said official acts are performed, and each
justice of the peace shall receive a fee of fifty cents for every
commission of lunacy upon which he may sit, to be paid out
of the lunatic’s estate. |

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