Chap. 200.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Cole of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved February 27, 1896, as further amended by an
act approved March 3, 1896, as further amended by an act approved February
7, 1898, as further amended by an act approved January 24, 1900, and as fur-
ther amended by an act approved March 6, 1900, in relation to the collection of
the fees of the commissioner of the revenue.

Approved March 15, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section five
hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia in relation to the col-
lection of fees of the commissioner of the revenue, as amended by an act
approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as
further amended by an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, as further amended by an act approved February seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as further amended by an act ap-
proved January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, as further amended by
an act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

$525. How made out and collected.—The commissioners may make
out tickets for their fees, and place them in the hands of a sheriff or con-
stable to be collected and accounted for in the same manner that clerks’
fees are collected and accounted for. The said commissioner shal] be sub-
ject to the same penalties as clerks of the courts for issuing tickets wrong-
fully: provided, however, that in the counties of Henrico, Chesterfield,
Bedford, Elizabeth City, Hanover, Brunswick, Montgomery, Rockbridge,
Northumberland, Orange, Roanoke, Albemarle, Isle of Wight, Augusta,
Amelia, Nottoway, Warwick, Warren, Clarke, Norfolk, Culpeper, New
Kent, Charles City, James City, York, King William, Westmoreland.
Surry, and Cumberland, and in the cities of Richmond, Manchester, Nor-
folk, Roanoke, Staunton, Alexandria, Newport News, Charlottesville,
Danville, and Buena Vista, the transfer fees allowed by law to commis-
sioners of the revenue for said counties and cities shall be collected bv
the clerk of the court of record of said counties and cities at the time of
recording deed: and provided, further, that in no case shall but one fee
be charged, and in order to avoid any misconception of this act, the fee
shall be collected from the first vendee, and no additional fee for the
transfer of any property on which said fee has beeen paid shall be col-
lected during the fiscal year terminating on the thirty-first day of Decem-
ber of each year. The clerk, at the time the commissioner of the revenue
returns to the clerk’s office the land books, according to law, shall account
to him for the fees so collected, deducting therefrom a commission of ten
per centum for his services, except that the clerk of the corporation court
of the city of Alexandria and the city of Manchester, and the clerks of
the county courts of Pulaski, Roanoke, Culpeper, and Norfolk counties
may deduct therefrom a commission of twenty-five per centum for their
services.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.