Chap. 146.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for the garnishment of and levy of execution on wages and salaries of the State
officials, clerks, and employees, approved February 24, 1900.

Approved April 15, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That chapter five
hundred and eleven of the acts of assembly, eighteen hundred and
ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted: so as to
read as follows:

81. That the wages and salaries of all officials of this State, their
clerks and all emplov evs of this State, shall be subject to garnishment or
execution upon any judgment rendered against them: provided, said
officials, clerks, and employees are not exempt from garnishment or levy
li a ; chapter one hundred and seventy-eight of the Code of Virginia.

Whenever the salary or wages of such officials, clerks, or emplovees
as i mentioned shall be g garnisheed under this act, the process shall be
such as is usual in the other cases of garnishment, and shall be served on
the judgement debtor and on the auditor of public accounts, or other
officer through whom the judgment debtor’s salary or wages is paid, and
1pon such service the auditor or such other officer shall, on or before the
eturn day of process, transmit to the clerk of the court or justice issuing
he process a certificate showing the amount due from the State to such
udgment debtor, up to the return day of the process, which amount said
juditor shall hold subject to order of the court or justice issuing the pro-
‘ess. Said certificate shall be evidence of all facts therein stated, unless
he court or justice direct that the deposition of the auditor, or such other
fficer through whom the judgment debtor’s salary or wages is paid, be
aken, in which event the deposition of said auditor or such other officer
shall be taken in his office and returned to the clerk of the court in which
he garnishment is or to the justice issuing the process, just as other depo-
itions are returned, and in no such case shall the auditor or other such
officer be required to leave his office to testify.

§ 3. In all proceedings under this act, if the judgment be for the plain-
iff, the amount found to be due the judgment debtor by the State shall
xe paid as directed by the court or justice.

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