Chap. 371.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2949, chapter 140, of the Code
of Virginia, in reference to the mode of collecting certain clerks’ fees.

Approved March 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-nine hundred and forty-nine, chapter one hundred and forty,
Code of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2949. A writ of fieri facias issued by a justice may be directed to
any constable, and be executed by him in any part of his county or cor-
poration, or may be directed to the sheriff or sergeant of any county or
corporation, but in any case shall be returnable in sixty days. If not
wholly satisfied, it may, within one year from the date of the judgment,
be returned to and renewed by a justice, notwithstanding the provisions
of chapter thirty-nine. But every execution issued by a justice which is
not so returned and renewed shall be returned by the officer to the clerks
of the court of the county or corporation in which the execution issued.
The said justice shall also return to the said office an abstract of the
judgment in each case tried by him, together with all of the papers in
the case. For docketing and filing such executions, and for filing such
abstracts of judgment with the accompanying papers, the clerk’s fees,
to be paid by the plaintiff and embraced in the judgment for costs in
each case, shall be collected by such constable, sheriff, or sergeant when
collecting his own fees, and paid over to the clerk at the time of return-
ng such papers to the clerk’s office as hereinbefore provided.
. This act shall be in force from its passage.