Chap. 103.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled: An
act to put into effective operation the provisions of the Constitution relating
to the creation, appointment and organization of the State Corporation Com-
mission; its jurisdiction, powers, functions and duties; the qualifications of the
members and officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of
its officers, and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes,
orders, findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judg-
ments, and its expenses, etc, approved April 15, 1903.

Approved February 29, 1908. ~

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen of an act entitled “an act to put into effective operation the pro-
visions of the Constitution relating to the creation, appointment and
organization of the State corporation commission; its jurisdiction,
powers, functions, and duties; the qualifications of the members and
officers thereof, their appointment and salaries; the location of its offices,
and places and times of its public sessions; its writs, processes, orders,
findings and judgments; appeals from its orders, findings and judg-
ments, and its expenses, and so forth,” approved April fifteenth, nine-
teen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§15. The commission shall require its clerk, first assistant clerk
and bailiff, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of their
respective offices, each to enter into bond, with surety to be approved by
the commission, in such penalty as the commission may deem sufficient
(not in any case less than five thousand dollars), conditioned for the
faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices, and for
the prompt and full accounting for and payment into the treasury of
all moneys received by them, respectively, as officers of the commission.
Such security may be given either by a guaranty or a trust company,
the cost thereof shall be paid by the Commonwealth: provided, that
the charge made by such guaranty or trust company for becoming such
surety shall be approved by the commission as a fair and’ reasonable
charge. The said bonds shall be made payable to the Commonwealth,
and may be proceeded on and enforced in any circuit or corporation
court in like manner as the official bonds of other officers of this Com-
monwealth or of its courts. Said bonds shall be recorded in the records
of the proceedings of the commission, and the original bonds transmitted
by its clerk to the auditor of public accounts, who shall file and preserve
the same in his office.