Chap. 229.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections or sub-sections 4 and
5 of an act entitled: An act to amend and re-enact an act of assembly ap-
proved March 12, 1904, relating to official receipts for fines, approved March
14, 1906.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
or sub-sections four and five of an act entitled “an act to amend and
re-enact an act of assembly, approved March twelve, nineteen hundred
and four, relating to official receipts for fines,” approved March four-
teen, nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§4. The several justices of the peace of each county shall each, either
personally or by agent, produce before the board of supervisors of the
county, on the first day of the first regular meeting occurring next after
the first day of January and July in each year, and the several justices
of the peace of each corporation shall each, in like manner, produce
before the council, at its like.meetings, the receipt forms in his posses-
sion and the stubs of receipts issued by him since his last accounting ;
and if it appears that the amount, represented by any receipt issued by
a justice of the peace, has not been properly accounted for, the said
board of supervisors or council shall report the same to the Common-
wealth’s attorney for such county or corporation ; and when such justices
of the peace of a county appear in person before the board of super-
visors, and produce such receipt forms and stubs of receipts, as herein-
before provided, the said board of supervisors shall allow them the same
fees for attending as jurors are allowed: provided, such justices have
properly accounted for all fines collected by them.

§5. Any clerk or justice of the peace failing, without good cause, to
comply with the provisions of section three, or section four aforesaid,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine therefor
not exceeding twenty dollars, recoverable by motion of the Common-
wealth’s attorney before the circuit or corporation court of the county
or corporation wherein such failure’ occurred, or wherein such delin-
quent officer resides. The chairman of the board of supervisors or the
clerk of the city council, as the case may be, shall at once notify the
Commonwealth’s attorney of the county or city of such failure of the
clerk or justice to comply with the provisions of section three or section
four aforesaid, and the said Commonwealth’s attorney shall proceed to
enforce the law against such delinquent.