Chap. 463.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 814 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1903.

Approved December 17, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
cight hundred and fourteen of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-
enacted by an act approved December the tenth, nineteen hundred and
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 814. Bonds of officers—FEvery county treasurer, the sheriff of a
county, county clerk, every clerk of a city court, every clerk of a circuit
court, and every commissioner of the revenue, superintendent of the poor,
county surveyor or supervisor, constable, and overseer of the poor shall,
at the time he qualifies, give such bond as is required by section one hun-
dred and seventy-seven. The penalty of the bond of each officer, to be
determined within the limits herein prescribed, by the court, judge, or
clerk before whom he qualifies, shall be as follows: Of the bond of the
county treasurer, not less+than double the amount to be received annually
by him; the penalty of the bond of a sheriff of a county, not less than ten
ror more than sixty thousand dollars—if said county treasurer shall elect
to give as surety on his bond some guaranty or security company doing
business in the State of Virginia, and deemed sufficient by the court,
judge, or clerk before whom he qualifies, he may execute such bond on a
form to be prescribed by the attorney-general and to be furnished by the
auditor of public accounts to the clerks of the several courts, and the
penalty of said bond shall he such as the court, judge. or clerk may re-
quire, but not Jess than seventy-five per centum of the amount to be re-
ceived annually by him; if the sheriff of a county shall elect to give ax
surety on his bond such guaranty or surety company, the penalty of such
bond shall not be less than five thousand nor more than thirty thousand
dollars; of the bond of the county clerk or clerk of a city or circuit court,
not less than three thousand dollars, and the bond of such clerk shall bine
him and his sureties not only for the faithful discharge of his duties a
clerk of said court, but also for the faithful discharge of such other dutie
as may be imposed upon him by law, in like manner and with the same
effect as if it was so expressed in the conditions of his said bond; of th
bond of the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand dollars; of th:
Lond of the superintendent of the poor, not less than four thousand dol.
lars; of the bond of a county surveyor, not less than two thousand dol.
lars; of the bond of a supervisor, not Iess than one thousand nor mor
than two thousand five hundred dollars; of the bond of a constable, not
less than five hundred dollars; of the bond of an overseer of the poor,
double the amount that wili actually pass through his hands as such over-
seer, not less in any case than five hundred dollars: provided, that nothing
in this act. shall be construed as requiring the Commonwealth or any
ccunty in the State to pay the cost of said security when given by such
guaranty or security company.
2. This act shall be in foree from its passage.