CHAP. 479.—An ACT to ascertain the amount of fines and: costs col-
lected by certainecounty officers, and which may not have been

accounted for.
Approved March 6, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the several clerks of the county courts of the counties of this
state, be and they are hereby required, within sixty days from
the passage of this act, to make out from the execution books
in their offices, a list of all executions and capias pro fines, issued
from their offices, under chapter forty-one of the Code of eight-
een hundred and seventy-three, and returned satisfied by the
sheriff or other officers, since the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and seventy-five, giving the name of the party against
whom such execution or capias pro fine issued, the date of the
return day thereof, the amount of the fine, and costs of prose-
cution, and shall deliver the said list as soon as completed, to
the attorneys for the commonwealth of their respective counties;
and for a failure of any clerk to comply with this act, he shall
forfeit one hundred dollars.

2. It shall be the duty of the attorney for the commonwealth
of each county in this state, immediately upon the receipt of
said list, to compare the same with the books of the treasurer
of his county, and see which of said fines and costs have. been
paid to him under the nineteenth section of the act approved
April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, amending and
re-enacting certain acts prescribing the duties of certain county
officers, and which have not been so paid. And the said at-
torney for the commonwealth shall proceed at once, in the
manner now provided by law, to collect of the sheriff or other
officer, such fines and costs as have not been so paid; and for
a failure to comply with this act he shall forfeit one hundred
dollars.

3. The clerk of each county shall receive as a compensation
for his services under this act, a fee of fifty cents for each exe-
cution or capias pro fine, included in said list, which has not
been paid to the treasurer by the sheriff cr other officer collect-
ing the same; said fee to be paid by such officer, and to be
taxed against him in the bill of costs in the proceeding insti-
tuted to recover the amount of such execution or capias pro
fine.

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