Chap. 363.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3950 of the Code of Virginia,
regulating compensation of coroners and constables.

Approved March 14, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand nine hundred and fifty of the Code of Virginia of eight-
een hundred and eighty-seven, be so amended and re-enacted as to read

as follows:

§3950. A coroner shall have for viewing a dead body, whether an in-
quest be had or not, three dollars, except where the coroner is a phiy-
sician and actually makes: an examination of the dead body in which
case his fee shall be five dollars and in the event that the coroner deems
it necessary to make and autopsy and does make such autopsy, then he
shall be allowed such additional fee as shall seem reasonable to the
circuit court of the county in which such autopsy was held; and a sheriff
or constable for summoning a coroner’s jury and the witnesses, one and a
half dollars.