Chap. 503.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3498, 3500, 3505, 3506, and
3508 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections 3515 of the
Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1896, and sec-
tion 3519 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act’ approved February 18.
1896, and section 3528, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and als»
to repeal section 3524 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved
February 20, 1900, and section 3525 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section:
three thousand four hundred and ninety-eight, three thousand five hun-
dred, three thousand five hundred and five, three thousand five hundred
and six, and three thousand five hundred and eight of the Code of Vir-
ginia, and section three thousand five hundred and fifteen of the Code
ef Virginia, as amended by an act approved February fourteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-six, and section three thousand five hundred
and nineteen of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved
February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and section three
thousand five hundred and twenty-eight, as amended by an act approvel
March fifth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

§ 3498. Fees of secretary of Commonwealth and clerk of house of
delegates.—The seerctary of the Commonwealth shall charge for services
rendered in his office the following fees, to be paid by the person for whom
the service is rendered at the time it is done:

For a testimonial, one dollar and fifty cents: for a copy of any paper.
if on one sheet, one dollar, and for cach shect after the first, seventy-five
cents; for issuing a commission to a commissioner in another State, five
dollars; for issuing a commission to each notary and inspector appointed
by the governor, three dollars; for making a requisition for a fugitive
from justice demanded of another State, two dollars: for issuing a war-
rant for the arrest of a fugitive demanded by the exccutive authority of
another State, two dollars; and for filing in his offiee any paper required
by law to be filed, the same fee as is allowed by law for recording similar
papers: provided, that no fee shall be charged for filing a notice of can-
didacy or other paper required by law of a candidate for any office. All
such. fees shall be collected by the secretary of the Commonwealth, and
shall be paid by him into the treasury of the State.

The clerk of the house of delegates, for a copy of an act of assembly,
if on one sheet, one dollar, and for cach shect after first, seventy-five cents.

These fees shall be paid by the person for whom the service is ren-
dered at the time it is done.

Notaries and Justices of the Peace.

$ 3500. Where there is a protest by a notary, for the record thereof,
making out instrument of protest under his official seal, and notice of
dishonor to one person beside the maker of a note or accepter of a bill.
one dollar; for every additional notice, ten cents: for taking and certify-
ing the acknowledgment of any deed or writing, fifty cents; for adminis-
tering and certifying an oath, unless it be the affidavit of a witness, or
acknowledgment of bail, or issuing process of attachment, twenty-five
cents; for taking and certifying affidavits or depositions of witnesses,
where done in an hour, seventy-five cents; if not done in an hour, for
any additional time, at the rate per hour of seventy-five cents; for every
commission of lunacy upon which a justice may sit, to be paid out of the
lunatic’s estate, one dollar; for all services which a justice may perform
on the trial of warrants in which the Commonwealth is not plaintiff, in-
cluding the issuing of warrants and subpoenas, swearing witnesses, tax-
ing costs, and issuing executions, to be taxed in the costs and received
as other costs are, fifty cents; for other services, the same fees as the clerk
of a circuit or city court for like services.

County Clerks and Clerks of Appellate and Other Courts.

§ 3505. Where a writing is admitted to record under chapter one hun-
dred and eleven, for everything relating to it, except the recording in the
deed book, to-wit: for receiving proof or acknowledgment, entering
orders, writing on it clerk’s certificate, statement of deed in list returned
to court, recording in minute book and posting same, and embracing it
in list for commissioners of the revenue, fifty cents; for every deed, paper,
or other writing examined which may have been recorded by any pre-
decessor of his in office, ten cents; for recording a plat of not more than
six courses, or for a copy thereof, fifty cents; for every course above six,
three cents; for recording in the deed book such writing, and all matter
therewith (except plats), or for recording anything not otherwise pro-
vided for, for every thirty words, three cents; in licu of the said allowance
of three cents for thirty words, the clerk may, for recording in the deed
book, elect to charge the following specific fees, to-wit: Where the writ-
ing is a deed of trust or mortgage, or is a conveyance of real and per-
sonal estate, or of real estate only, seventy-five cents; and where it is not
such, twenty-five cents; for swearing the witnesses and entering in the
order or minute book all orders in relation to the proof of a will which is
admitted to record without contest, and copying such orders on the will,
fifty cents ; for recording a will, and the matter recorded therewith in the
will book, at the option of the clerk, three cents for every thirty words,
or a specific fee of thirty cents; if there be an order committing a de-
cedent’s estate to an officer, for entering and copying such order, and the
orders of appraisement, fifty cents; if any personal representative qualify,
for swearing him and his surety, making out bond, entering, and copy-
ing on the will the order granting probate or administration, making
one copy of such order for the representative, entering, and copying
orders of appraisement, and including case in said list, one dollar; if
several personal representatives qualify on the same estate, during the
same term, only the same fee shall be charged as if one had qualified,
to-wit: one dollar; for entering and copying an order granting a license
end administering an oath, where necessary, seventy-five cents; on an
application for a marriage license, for administering and writing cer-
tificate of oath, issuing and registering license, and recording and giving
receipt for certificate of the marriage, one dollar; for a scarch for any-
thing above a year’s standing, except where the clerk, at the request of
counsel, searches for papers in a pending case, ten cents; for recording a
certificate and posting a copy thereof, under section two thousand and
sixty-three, fifty cents; for making out an injunction bond, administer-
ing all necessary oaths, writing proper affidavits, making out release of
errors, copying the same, and endorsing on the summons that such bond
and release are filed, seventy-five cents; for making out any other bond,
administering all necessary oaths, and writing proper affidavits, fifty
cents; for issuing a writ in the nature of an ad quod damnum, eighty-
five cents; on receiving the copy of a caveat, for entering such copy,
twenty-five cents; for issuing a summons to answer a bill, with an en-
dorsement thereon of an injunction, or of an order of attachment, and
recording return of same, thirty-five cents; for issuing any other sum-
mons, or any writ not particularly provided for, and for recording the
return where proper to do so, twenty-five cents; for each copy of any
process which goes out of the office (with such process), to be used in
serving it, one-half the fee for issuing such process; for noting in the
process book any decree, order, or process (except a summons for a wit-
ness), and taking a receipt therefor, eighteen cents; for postage paid by
the clerk on a decree, order, or process, and putting in or taking out of
postoffice same, double the amount of such postage; for entering in any
suit, or in a motion for judgment for money, all the attorneys for each
party, or the appearance in proper person of a party having no attorney
who so appears, ten cents; for endorsing and filing each petition, declara-
tion, bill, answer, or other written pleading, each bill of exceptions, de-
murrer to evidence, special verdict, or case agreed, each written notice of
the defense relied on in ejectment, or of a motion for judgment for
money, and each report of a commissioner, and for entering each plea,
replication, or other pleading, which is not written, fifteen cents; for en-
dorsing and filing all the depositions and affidavits of witnesses, filed on
the same side at any one time,or all the written interrogatories at one time,
from one party to another, or all the answers filed at one time to such
interrogatories, or the exceptions filed at one time by either party to a
commissioner’s report, fifteen cents; if papers be filed on the side of the
plaintiffs, for which no particular fee is allowed, a fee (not for each, but
for the whole) of twenty cents; so also if papers be filed on the side of
the defendants, for which no particular fee is allowed, a fee (not for
each, but for the whole) of twenty cents; for issuing an attachment,
with a copy of the rule or order for the same (if sent out therewith), and
recording the return thereof where proper to do so, thirty-five cents; for
issuing a scire facias and recording the return thereof, or for issuing a
commission to examine witnesses, administering oath when necessary as
the foundation thereof, and writing affidavit, fifty cents; for all the rules
entered in any case on the same side, at any rules, where anything is done
on such side at said rules besides entering or filing a pleading or con-
tinuing the case, twenty-five cents; where no proceedings are had in a
case during any rules except to continue it, the fees shall be at the rate
of twenty-five cents for every quarter of a year the case is so continued,
and no more; for dockcting any suit, or any motion for a judgment for
money (to be charged only once), ten cents, except that where an action
or motion is on the court docket at a term designated for the trial] of
civil cases in which juries are required, if no decision or continuance be
entered in it, there shall be a fee for putting it on the docket at the next
like term of eighteen cents; where a jury is impanelled, for swearing the
jury and witnesses, seventy-five cents; where no jury is impanelled, if
witnesses be examined by the court, for swearing such witnesses for either
party, twenty cents; where a witness claims for his attendance, for ad-
ministering an oath to him, and entering and certifying such attendance,
thirty cents; for administering any oath not before provided for, and
writing a certificate thereof, where the case requires one, fifteen cents;
for all judgments, decrees, orders, and procedings (except entries of
pleadings and matters otherwise provided for), which are entered on the
same day, for the same persons, at the election of the clerk, three cents
for every thirty words (actually written on the minute or order book, or
upon the rule book, when final judgments are entered therein), or a spe-
cific fee of thirty-six cents; for docketing under chapter one hundred and
seventy-four a judgment, decree, bond, or recognizance, twenty-five
cents; for entering satisfaction of same on judgment docket, twenty
cents; for taxing costs in any case on one side, twenty cents; and if the
case has been pending more than a year, then for every additional year
ten cents; when an execution is returned by a constable in a case wherein
there is no appeal from the justice’s judgment, for filing the papers, ten
cents ; and if the clerk issue an execution in the case, for such execution
and all his other services in the case, until.and including the record of
the return of said execution (if it be returned before another issues),
forty cents; for any other execution, the entry in the execution book and
the record of the return, forty cents; for making out a transcript of the
record and proceedings in any case, in due form, so that the same may be
used in an appellate court, for every thirty words, three cents; and for
making out, in any other manner than copying, any paper to go out of
the office, which 1s not otherwise provided for, the same, or in lieu
thereof, if the clerk elect, a specific fee of twenty-five cents; for any copy
to go out of the office, if it be not otherwise provided for, two cents for
every thirty words, or in lieu thereof, if the clerk elect, a specific fee of
twenty cents; for annexing the seal of the court to any paper writing, the
certificate of the clerk accompanying it, and writing certificate of the
judge, if the clerk be requested so to do, thirty-seven cents; for making
statement, calculating interest, receiving payment of taxes on any tract
of land returned delinquent, fifty cents; for each tract of land entered in
the delinquent land book, to be paid out of the treasury, ten cents; for
any other writ not hereinbefore provided for, fifty cents; for making out
the bond upon issuing any such writ, administering necessary oaths, and
writing proper affidavits, fifty cents; upon any such writ, for endorsing
and filing the petition therefor or when the writ is returned, for filing it,
with the return thereon, fifteen cents; for filing the record upon an ap-
peal or on such writ, fifteen cents; when the clerk of the court of appeals
issues process on an appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas, for making out
the bond, administering necessary oaths, writing proper affidavits, and
endorsing on the process a certificate of the execution of the bond, and of
the names of the sureties therein, seventy-five cents; for docketing any
case, a fee of eighteen cents, or if the clerk elect, in lieu thereof, three
cents for every thirty words entered on the rule book when it is first
docketed, this fee for docketing to be charged but once, except that when
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any case, either at law or in equity, is on the court docket, if at any term
it be left undecided, without an order of continuance, there shall be a
fee for putting it on the docket at the next term of twenty-five cents:
after a decision by the circuit, corporation, or hustings court or court of
appeals, as an appellate court, for issuing an execution, making entry
thereof in the execution book, and recording the return, seventy-five
cents ; unless the decision be by the court of appeals in a case wherein the
first judgment or decree was in a circuit or city court, in which case the
fee shall be one dollar; for taxing the damages to which a party may be
cntitled by reason of an injunction, appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas,
forty cents.

In Chancery Cases.

§ 3506. For issuing an attachment or a summons, with an endorse
ment of an order of attachment or injunction, fifty cents; for process for
which no higher fee is allowed, twenty-five cents; if when a bill or answer
is filed there be filed at the same time any exhibit, on which the clerk
endorses the name of the case and the day it is filed, for every such ex-
hibit, five cents; when more than three exhibits are returned with a com-
missioner’s report (but not annexed thereto), for endorsing and filing
such exhibits a fee, not for each, but for all filed with the same report, of
twenty-five cents; if papers be filed on the side of the plaintiff, for which
no fee is before provided, a fee, not for each, but for the whole of such
papers, of twenty-five cents; and if papers be filed on the side of defend-
ants, for which no fee is before provided, a fee, not for each, but for the
whole of such papers, of twenty-five cents; for entering in the rule book
the return of all process returnable to the same rule day, a fee, not for
each defendant named therein, nor for every such process, but for the
whole of the defendants named in all such process, of thirty-five cents:
for all the rules entered in any case on the same side at the rules for one
month, when anything is done on such side at said rules besides entering
or filing a pleading or continuing the case, fifty cents; for any execution,
the entry of the case in the execution book and the record of the return,
unless a higher fee be allowed therefor, fifty cents.

§$ 3507. Of clerks of court of appeals; to whom cost of printing record
is charged; when case dismissed if cost of printing not paid; amount
taxed for printing to be paid into treasury.—The same fees as a clerk of
the circuit court for similar services. In every case wherein printing is
done under section thirty-four hundred and seventy-six, the clerk of the
court of appeals shall charge in such case, to the appellants or plaintiffs
in error, the cost of printing the record, which shall be paid, or secured
to be paid, to the clerk before the printing is done: provided, that as soon
as the case is docketed after the appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas is al-
lowed, the clerk of the said court shall notify the appellant or his counse!
of record of the amount of such costs, and if the same are not paid within
ninety days from the date of such notice the case shall be dismissed.
which costs so paid, or secured to be paid, shall be recovered and paid
hy the parties, respectively, as the court shall direct. The clerk shall ae.
count for and pay into the treasury of the State the amount taxed fa:
printing the record, and he shall charge for his services in superintend.
ing and examining the printing, indexing, distributing, and filing the
records, conducting the correspondence, et cetera, as follows: To the
appellant or plaintiffs in error for one copy of the record, at the rate of
one and a half cents for every ten words actually printed, which shall be
paid in every case before the hearing.

Of Sheriffs, Sergeants, Criers, Coroners, and Constables.

§ 3508. For serving on any person a declaration in ejectment or an
order, notice, summons, or other process when the body is not taken and
making return thereof, fifty cents, except that the fee for summoning a
witness shall only be twenty cents; for serving on any person an attach-
ment or other process under which the body is taken and making return
thereof, one dollar; for recciving a person in jail, twenty-five cents; for
discharging a person from jail, twenty-five cents; for carrying a pris-
oner, other than a prisoner arrested for felony or misdemeanor, to or from
jail, each mile of necessary travel cither in going or returning, five cents ;
for taking any bond, sixty cents; when a petit jury is sworn in court, for
impanelling and summoning such jury, one dollar; for serving any order
of court not otherwise provided for, fifty cents; when a jury is summoned
upon a writ of ad quod damnum, or any inquest in vacation, for sum-
moning them, onc dollar; and for attending at the place of their meeting,
one dollar; and if the jury attend there, and a verdict or inquisition be
found and returned, two dollars: provided, however, that where more
than one writ of ad quod damnum is executed by the same jury in the
same case upon the same summons, the sheriff shall have but one fee for
summoning the jury and attend at their place of meeting, and shall be
allowed but one dollar additional for cach additional inquisition found
and returned. For serving a writ of possession, one dollar and fiftv cents ;
for serving a writ of distringas on a judgment or decree for personal
property, if the specific thing be taken, one dollar and fifty cents; for
keeping and supporting any person confined in jail, for each day, forty
cents ; for search and return of writ of distringas, where the property is
not found, fifty cents ; for keeping and supporting any horse or mule dis-
trained or levied on, for cach day when stall-fed, twenty-five cents, and
for each day when pastured, ten cents; for each hog or head of horned
cattle, per day, five cents; for each sheep or goat, per day, three cents.
The circuit court of any county or the corporation or hustings court of a
corporation may, at any time, fix or alter the rates to be thenceforth
paid in such county or corporation for keeping and supporting any person
in jail, or any horse or live stock, but the rates so fixed or altered shall
never exceed those hereinbefore mentioned. The officer shall be repaid
any necessary expense incurred by him in keeping property not before
mentioned or in removing any property; and when, after distraining or
levying, he neither sells nor receives payment, and either takes no forth-
coming bond, or takes one which is not forfeited, he shall, if in no default,
have (in addition to the sixty cents for a bond, if one was taken) a fee
of three dollars, unless this be more than one-half of what his commis-
sion would have amounted to if he had received payment, in which case
he shall (whether a bond was taken or not) have a fee of at least one dol-
lar, and so much more as is necessary to make the said half.
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The commission to be included in a forthcoming bond, when one is
taken, shall be five per centum on the first three hundred dollars of the
money for which the distress or levy is, and two per centum on the residue
of said money; but such commission shall not be received unless the
bond be forfeited or paid (including the commission) to the plaintiffs,
and of whatever interest may accrue on such bond, or the execution or
judgment thereon, the officer shall be entitled to his proportionable share
thereof, on account of his fees included in said bond. An officer receiving
payment in money or selling goods shall receive the like commission of
five per centum on the first three hundred dollars of the money paid or
proceeding from the sale, and two per centum on the residue, except that
when such payment or sale is on an execution on a forthcoming bond, his
commission shall only be half what it would be if the execution were not
on such bond.

§ 3515. How and when fee bills made out; to be produced before pay-
inent is compelled ; what to show when paid in advance; constructive fee
defined; penalties for illegal demands; how fee bill quashed.—No person
shall be compelled to pay any fees before mentioned for services already
performed. until there be produced to him a fee bill signed by the officer
to whom: the fees are due, expressing the particulars for which such fees
are charged, nor shall such officer be compelled to perform any service
unless his fees, if demanded, be paid or tendered or otherwise satisfac-
torily secured him except in criminal cases and! in the case of persons
suing as provided by section thirty-five hundred and thirty-eight. And
where bills are made out for services to be performed there shall be men-
tioned the nature of the service and the fact that it is to be performed.
No officer shall for any service make out a fee bill for more than is al-
lowed therefor or charge full fees to more than one party for the same
service, but in such case the payment of the fees by any party shall be a
satisfaction for such service; nor shall any officer charge a constructive
fee, nor shall he for the same service attempt to obtain payment a second
time or make out a fee bill a second time unless he endorse the fact and
swear that the former bill remains unpaid. ©

“Constructive fees” shall be construed to include fees for services not
actually rendered or for copies not actually furnished the party at his
request, or for services which inure to the benefit of more than one person
and have already been charged to or paid' by another.

If any officer violate any of the provisions of this section he shall for-
feit five dollars to any person prosecuting therefor. The circuit court of
a county or the circuit or city court of a corporation in which an officer
resides may, on motion after reasonable notice to him, quash any fee bill
made out by him contrary to law.

§ 3519. When and how officer to account for fee bills collected and
return those uncollected; his commission ; remedy for what he is charge
able with.—Every sheriff, constable, or high constable to whom such fee
bills are so delivered shall, within twelve months after such delivery, ac-
count therefor with the officer or personal representative entitled thereto
by returning such as he may not have collected, with an endorsement
thereon that the person charged with the fees has no estate in his county,
corporation, or district out of which the same could be made, and by pay-

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ing to such officer or personal representative the amount of all not so re-
turned, deducting a commission for himself of ten per centum on guch
amount. If he fails so to do, judgment may be obtained on motion against
him and his sureties or his and their personal representatives, or if he be
a sheriff, against any deputy who may have signed the receipt for the fee
bills and his sureties or his and their personal representatives for the
amount with which such sheriff, constable, or high constable is chargeable
and damages thereon not exceeding fifteen per centum per annum from
the expiration of the said twelve months. Such judgment may be, on
motion, after-notice, in the circuit court of the county or the cireuit or
city court of the corporation wherein said sheriff, constable, or high con-
stable resides. On such motion the signature to any receipt for fee bills
mentioned in the notice as signed by any person shail be dcemed to be his
genuine signature unless an affidavit be made denving it.

To Attorneys for the Commonwealth.

§ 3528. For every case of felony tried in any circuit or corporation
court, to be charged only once in cach case, the sum of ten dollars; for
every case of misdemeanor prosecuted in any such court to judgment for
the Commonwealth, except prosecutions for violation of the revenue laws,
and. for offenses under section thirty-cight hundred and fifteen, and the
sections following to thirty-eight hundred and thirty-three, inclusive,
the sum of five dollars: provided, that in no case shall the attorney for
the Commonwealth in any county or city receive from the State treasury
more in any one vear than the amounts hereinafter stated, as follows:

The attorney for the Commonwealth of the county of Accomac, three
hundred and twenty dollars: of Albemarle, three hundred and seventy
dollars: of Alexandria, two hundred and fifty dollars; of Alleghany, two
hundred dollars; of Amelia, two hundred and twenty dollars; of Am-
herst, two hundred and fifty dollars: of Appomattox, three hundred dol-
lars; of Augusta, four hundred and twenty dollars: of Bath, seventy-five
dollars: of Bedford, three hundred and sixty dollars; of Bland, one hun-
dred and twenty dollars; of Botetourt, two hundred dollars; of Bruns-
wick, two hundred and twenty dollars: of Buckingham, three hundred
dollars: of Buchanan, two hundred dollars: of Campbell, three hundred
and sixty dollars: of Caroline, two hundred dollars: of Carroll, two hun-
dred dollars; of Charles City, one hundred dollars; of Charlotte, one
hundred and fifty dollars; of Chesterfield, two hundred and twenty dol-
lars: of Clarke, two hundred dollars: of ( raig, seventy-five dollars: of
Culpeper, two hundred dollars: of Cumberland, two Irundred dollars ;
of Dickenson, two hundred dollars: of Dinwiddie, two hundred dollars:
of Elizabeth City, four hundred dollars: of Essex, two hundred dollars :
of Fairfax, two Trumelredl and twenty dollars: of Fauquier, two hundred
and eighty dollars; of Flovd, three hundred dollars; of Fluvanna, two
hundred dollars; of Franklin, three hundred dollars: of Frederick, two
hundred and twenty dollars: of Giles, two hundred dollars: of Glouecs-
ter, two hundred dollars; of Goochland. one hundred and seventy-five
dollars; of Grayson, two hundred dollars; of Greene, one hundred and
twenty dollars; of Greenesville, two hundred dollars ; of Halifax, four

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hundred dollars; of Hanover, two hundred and twenty dollars; of Hen-
rico, six hundred dollars; of Henry, three hundred dollars; of Highland,
one hundred dollars; of Isle of Wight, two hundred dollars; of James
City, one hundred dollars; of King and Queen, two hundred dollars; of
King George, one hundred dollars; of King William, two hundred dol-
lars; of Lancaster, one hundred and fifty dollars; of Lee, three hundred
dollars; of Loudoun, two hundred and fifty dollars; of Louisa, two hun-
dred dollars; of Lunenburg, two hundred and fifty dollars; of Madison,
one hundred ‘and fifty dollars; of Mathews, one hundred dollars ; of Meck-
lenburg, three hundred dollars ; of Middlesex, one hundred and twenty
dollars; of Montgomery, three hundred dollars ; of Nansemond, two hun-
dred and forty dollars; of Nelson, two hundred dollars; of New Kent,
one hundred and twenty dollars; of Norfolk, seven hundred dollars; of
Northampton, one hundred and fifty dollars; of Northumberland, one
hundred dollars; of Nottoway, two hundred: and fifty dollars; of Orange,
one hundred and fifty dollars; of Page, two hundred and twenty-five dol-
lars; of Patrick, two hundred dollars; of Pittsylvania, six hundred dol-
lars; of Powhatan, one hundred dollars; of Prince Edward, three hun-
dred dollars; of Prince George, one hundred dollars; of Princess Anne,
one hundred dollars; of Prince William, two hundred dollars; of Pu-
laski, three hundred dollars; of Rappahannock, one hundred and fifty
dollars ; of Richmond, one hundred dollars; of Roanoke, two hundred dol-
lars; of Rockbridge, two hundred dollars; of Rockingham, three hundred
and sixty dollars; of Russell, two hundred and ten dollars; of Scott, two
hundred and sixty dollars; of Shenandoah, two hundred dollars; of
Smyth, three hundred dollars; of Southampton, two hundred dollars ; of
Spotsylvania, one hundred and fifty dollars; of Stafford, one hundred
dollars; of Surry, one hundred and fifty dollars ; of Sussex, one hundred
and fifty dollars; of Tazewell, five hundred dollars; of Warren, one hun-
dred and fifty dollars ; of Warwick, one hundred and fifty dollars ; of
Washington, three hundred and forty dollars; of Westmoreland, one
hundred and twenty-five dollars; of Wise, four hundred dollars; of
Wythe, two hundred and thirty dollars; of York, one hundred dollars.
The attorney for the Commonwealth of the city of Richmond, two
thousand dollars; of the city of Norfolk, fifteen hundred dollars; of the
city of Petersburg, four hundred dollars; of the city of Lynchburg, four
hundred dollars; of the city of Roanoke, five hundred dollars; of the city
of Alexandria, three hundred dollars; of the city of Portsmouth, three
hundred dollars ; of the city of Danville, three hundred and fifty dollars;
of the city of Manchester, two hundred and fifty dollars; of the city of
Staunton, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; of the city of Char-
lottesville, two hundred dollars; of the city of Ww inchester, two hundred
dollars; of the city of Fredericksburg, one hundred and seventy-five dol-
lars; of the city of Bristol, one hundred and fifty. dollars; of the city of
Radford, one hundred and fifty dollars; of the city of Buena Vista.
seventy-five dollars; of the city of New port News, four hundred dollars.
2. Be it further enacted, That section three thousand five hundred
and twenty-four of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved
February twentieth, nineteen hundred, and: section three thousand five
nundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, be, and the same are
nereby, repealed.

3. This act shall be in force on and after February first, nineteen hun-
ired and four.