Chap. 822.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 815 of the code of Vir-
ginia, in reference to bonds of city treasurers, as amended and re-enacted
by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 815, code of Virginia

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and fifteen of the code of Virginia, as amended by an
act approved Decemher twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-
seven, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section eight hundred and
fifteen of the code of Virginia in reference to bonds of city treasurers,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 815. Bonds required of city treasurers.—Everv city treasurer, at the
time he qualifies, shall, in addition to any bond required of him by his
city under its charter and ordinances, give a bond with sufficient surety,
in a penalty double the amount of the state revenue to be annually re-
ceived by him. pavable to the commonwealth, and with condition 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 charter and ordinances of his city: pro-
vided, that the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of the citv
of Richmond shall be two hundred thousand dollars, the penalty of
the hond of the treasurer of the citv of Norfolk shall be two hundred
thousand dollars. the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of the city of
Petersburg shall be seventy-five thousand dollars, and the penaltv of the
hond of the treasurer of the city of Lynchburg shall be forty thousand
dollars, as provided by acts of assembly of eighteen hundred and eichtv-
seven and eighty-eicht, chapter four hundred and one: and provided,
if the treasurer of the city of Newport News shall elect to give as surety
on his hond some guaranty or security company doing business in the
state of Virginia, and deemed sufficient by the court before whom he
qualifies, the penalty of his bond shall be such as the court or indge
may require, but not less than the amount to be recovered annually by
him on account of the state revenue.

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