Chap. 522.—_An ACT to fix the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Rock-
bridge county, require every sixty days’ statement of collections and payment
into the treasurv of the state’s revenue, and to empower the county board of
supervisors to demand new or additional bond.

Approved February 28, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That onthe
first day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the treasurer of
Rockbridge county shall be required to give a new bond, which shall
be executed in manner and form now prescribed by law, and the pen-
alty of said bond shall be forty thousand dollars, and the same may
be given in vacation. When the bond under this act 1s given it shall
supersede and take the place of the existing bond. The treasurer of
Rockbridge county, on the first Monday in December in each year,
and every sixty days thereafter, shall make to the auditor of public
accounts, under oath, a statement of all moneys collected for the
state or county, and shall pay into the treasury so much of said fund
as shall be due to the commonwealth ; and at the time and periods
aforesaid he shall make to the judge of the county court a like state-
ment of all moneys collected for the tounty and file this statement
with the clerk of the board of county supervisors. For failure to
make these statements, or either of them, or to pay into the treasury
the state’s revenues, the treasurer shall be fined not less than fifty nor
more than one hundred dollars for each offence and forfeit to the
county and commonwealth his commissions upon collections, and,
after reasonable notice, be removed from office. The board of super-
visors, when, in their discretion, deemed necessary, may require new
or additional bond from the treasurer.

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