Chap. 171.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900, 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 17, 1898, and as
further amended by an act approved January 24, 1900, in relation to the
collection of the fees of the commissioner of the revenue.

Approved February 15, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ive hundred and twenty-five of the code of Virginia, in relation to the
‘ollection of the fees of the commissioner of the revenue, as amended by
in act approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-
ix, as further amended by an act approved March third, eighteen hun-
lred and ninety-six, as further amended by an act approved February
eventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-cight, as further amended by
in act approved January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, and as fur-
her amended by an act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred, be
mended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 525. How made out and collected—The commissioners may make
mut tickets for their fees and place them in the hands of a sheriff or
‘onstable, to be collected and accounted for in the same manner that
‘lerks’ fees are collected and accounted for. The said commissioners
hall be subject to the same penalties as clerks of the courts for issuing
ickets wrongfully: provided, however, that in the counties of Henrico,
Chesterfield, Bedford, Elizabeth City, Hanover, Pulaski, Giles, Bruns-
wick, Montgomery, Rockbridge, Northumberland, Orange, Roanoke,
Albemarle, Isle of Wight, Augusta, Amelia, Nottoway, Warwick, War-
ren, Clarke, Norfolk, Princess Anne, and Culpeper, and in the cities
of Richmond, Manchester, Norfolk, Roanoke, Staunton, Alexandria,
Newport News, Charlottesville, Danville, and Buena Vista, the trans-
fer fees allowed by law to the commissioners of the revenue for said
counties and cities shall be collected by 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 te
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 been paid shall he collected during the fiscal vear,
terminating on the thirty-first day of December 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

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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 clerks of the county courts of Pulaski, Roanoke,
Princess Anne, and Norfolk counties, may deduct therefrom a commis-
sion of twenty-five per centum for their services: and provided further,
that the clerk for the county of Bedford shall account and pay over to
the commissioner of the revenue for Bedford county, one-half of the fees
so collected, on the first day of February of each year, and the residue
of such fees at the time the commissioner of the revenue returns to the
clerk’s office the land books according to law.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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