Chap. 153.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3507 of the Code of Vi
ginia in relation to the clerks of courts of appeals and to printing records.

Approved March 10, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘That sectio
three thousand five hundred and seven of the Code of Virginia be amende
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$3507. Of clerks of court of appeals; to whom cost of printing recor
is charged; when case dismissed if cost of printing not paid; amour
taxed for printing to be paid into treasury. The clerk of the suprem
court of appeals shall have the same fees as a clerk of the circuit cow
for similar services. In every case wherein printing is done under sec
tion thirty-four hundred and seventy-six, the clerk of the court of appeal
shall charge in such cases, to the appellants or plaintiffs in error, the co:
of printing the record, which shall be paid or secured tu be paid, to th
clerk before the printing is done: provided, that as soon as the case 1
docketed after the appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas is allowed, th
clerk of the said court shall notify the appellant or his counsel of recor
of the amount of such costs, and if the same are not paid within ninet
days from the date of such notice the case shall be dismissed, which cost
so paid, or secured to be paid, shall be recovered and paid by the parties
respectively, as the court shall direct. The clerk shall account for an
pay into the treasury of the State the amount taxed for printing th
record, and he shall charge for his services in superintending and ex
amining the printing, indexing, distributing, and filing the records, con
ducting the correspondence, etcetera, as follows: To the appellant o
plaintiffs in error for one copy of the record, at the rate of one and a hal
vents for every ten words actually printed, which shall be paid in ever’
case before the hearing.

2. In order to provide for cases already pending, and for those whicl
are likely to come before the court at once, an emergency exists, and thi
act shall be in force from its passage.