Chap. 239.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to require the
chancery court of the city of Richmond to keep in its clerk’s office a book show-
ing the amount of money and notes under the control or subject to the order of
said court, approved February 19, 1898,” so as to make said act apply also to
the law and equity court of the city of Richmond.

Approved May 14, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled “an act to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to
keep in its clerk’s office a book showing the amount of money and notes
under the control or subject to the order of said court,” approved Febru-
ary nineteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: That there shall be kept in the clerk’s
office of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, and in the clerk’s
office of the law and equity court of said city, a book in which shall be kept
complete and accurate accounts of all money deposited in any bank, or in
the hands of any officer or depository of the said courts, or otherwise under
the control or subject to the order of the said courts, and also of all notes
given for the deferred payments of the purchase money for real estate
sold under orders of the said courts.

2. It shall be the duty of each of the clerks of the said courts to enter in
said books, under appropriate accounts, all the money and notes which
shall be deposited to the credit of the court with any such bank, officer, or
depository, and also all the money and notes which shall be thereafter paid
out or withdrawn under orders of the court, so that the said book shall, at
all times, show the true amount of money and notes so under the control
or subject to the order of the court. And the said books shall be open for
inspection to the public.

For his services under this act each of said clerks shall be entitled to a
fee of one dollar per year for each account so kept on said books for each
year in which any entry is made in said account, which fee shall be taxed
in the costs of the suit to which said money or notes belong, but only one
account of the money or notes belonging to any one suit shall be kept in
said book, unless otherwise ordered by the court; and no fee shall be
charged for any such account for any year in which no entry is made
therein.

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

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