Chap. 25.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 815 of the code of Virginia in
reference to bonds of city treasurers.

Approved December 22, 1897.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and fifteen of the code of Virginia be aniended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 815. Bonds required of city treasurers. —Every city treasurer, at
the time he qualifies, shall, in addition to anv bond required of him bv
his city under its charter and ordinances, give a bond with sufficient
surety, Ina penalty double the amount of the state revenue to be an-
nually received by him, payable to the commonwealth, and with condi-
tion for the faithful discharge of his official duties in relation to the
state revenue, and of such other official duties as are imposed upon him
by law otherwise than by the eharter and ordinances of his city: pro-
vided, that the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of the city of Rich-
mond shall be two hundred thousand doll: ars, the penalty of the bond
of the treasurer of the city of Norfolk shall be two hundred thousand
dollars, and the penalty of the bond of the city treasurer of the city of
Petersburg, shall be seventy-five thousand dollars, and the bond of the
treasurer of the city of Lynchburg shall be forty thousand dollars, as
provided by acts of assembly of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and
eighty-eight, chapter four hundred and one, page four hundred and
seventy-seven.

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