Chap. 841.—An ACT to amend and re-enact. section 3527 of the code of Virginia
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tion $927 of the code of Virgimia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out
of the treasury in criminal cases, approved February 24, 1890.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand five hundred and twenty-seven of the code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February twenty-fourth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section three thousand five hundred and twenty-seven of the code of
Virginia, in relation to payment of fees to officers out of the treasury in
criminal cases, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3527. T he fees of attorneys for the commonwealth, clerks, justices,
sheriffs, sergeants, Jailors, coroners, criers, and constables, in all cases in
which the defendant is indicted for a felony shall be paid out of the
state treasury when certified as prescribed by section four thousand and
eighty-four; and in all cases in which a charge of felony is investigated and
dismissed by a justice, or in which the defendant is sent on to the erand
jury and no indictment is found, one-half only of the lawful fees of the
justices and other oflicers shall be likewise paid when so certified. In
every prosecution for misdemeanor, if the fees of said officers are not
paid by the prosecutor or in cases of conviction by the defendant, and
in cases where there is no prosecutor and the defendant shall be acquitted
or convicted and unable to pay the cost, or where a nolle prosequi is
entered or judgment arrested, one-half of the lawful fees of said officers,
except a jailor, who shall be paid in full, shall likewise be paid when
certified as heretofore required in this section out of the state treasury:

provided, however, nothing in this section shall be construed as allow-
ing fees in any cases which are not now allowed by law. In no case
shall any account be allowed or paid unless verified by the aflidavit of
the person rendering the services; and when allowance is made for a
guard, or to a person to assist in making an arrest, the account shall also
be verified by the affidavit of such guard or person employed to assist
in making the arrest, or the personal representative of such oflicer,
guard, or person if he be dead. The fees of said officers shall be as
follows:

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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