Chap. 189.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Vir-
zginia in relation to disposition of proceedings before commission, fees, etc..
and to repeal an act to provide for the payment of justices of the peace,
witnesses, and physicians in certain cases, approved March 5, 1888.

Approved March 14, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general asseinbly of Virginia, That section six-
wen hundred and seventy-one of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1671. Disposition and proceedings before commissions, fees, etcetera.
The interrogatories to the witnesses and the answers thereto shal] be in
writing; and, together with a written statement by the commission of any
damages done to them as to the facts of insanity, shall be properly trans-
mitted by the justice of the peace with his order ; and a record thereof
shall be kept by the clerk of the county or corporation court. The two
pivsicians shall receive a fee of two dollars and fifty cents each for their
services. The justice of the peace shall receive a fee of one dollar for
his services, and all witnesses regularly summoned before such commis-
sion of Junaey shall receive for their attendance from the same the sum
of fifty cents for each day’s attendance. All expenses incurred in com-
mitting any party to any State hospital, including the fees aforesaid,
shall be borne by the county or corporation from which such patient is
sent.

2. That the act approved March five, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight, entitled an act to provide for the payment of justices of the peace,
witnesses, and physicians in certain cases be, and the same is hereby.
repealed.