CHAP. 219.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of chapter 180
of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clerk’s fees.

Approved March 6, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section twenty of chapter one hundred and eighty of the Code
of Virginia, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to.read as follows:
§ 20. No person shall be compelled to pay any fees before
mentioned until there be produced to him a fee bill, signed by
the officer to whom the fees are due, expressing the particulars
for which such fees are charged, and no such fee bill sbali be
made out for any service not previously performed, unless a
person desire to pay before such performance, in which case
there shall be mentioned in such fee bill the nature of the
service and the fact that it is to be performed; nor shall an
officer, for any service, make out a fee bill for more than is
allowed therefor, or charge full fees to more than one party for
the same service, but in such case the fee once paid by any
party shall be a satisfaction for such service; nor shall any
officer charge a constructive fee, nor shall he, for the same
a Service, attempt to obtain payment a second time, or even make

out a fee bill a second time, unless he endorse the fact and

swear that the former bill remain unpaid. For each item in
which an officer shall violate this section, he shall forfeit five

y dollars to any person prosecuting therefor, and the circuit,
county or corporation court of the county or corporation in
which an officer resides may, on motion, after reasonable no-
tice to him, quash any fee bill made out by him contrary to
law. Constructive fees shall be construed to be fees for
services not actually rendered, or for copies not actually fur-
nished the party at his request, or for services which enure to
the benefit of more than one person and have already been
charged to or paid by another.

't 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

i=)

o