CHAP. 87.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3533 of the Code of
Virginia.

Approved March 5, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-five hundred and thirty-three of the Code be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3533. No justice, constable, sergeant, captain or ser-
geant of police who receives a salary or allowance for general ser-
vice out of the treasury of his county, city, or corporation shall
receive any fees for services in a criminal case from the State,
city, or county, but all such fees to said officers shall be paid by
the party against whom judgment is rendered; but the judge of
any city or corporation court may make an allowance not exceed-
ing two hundred dollars a year to each of two constables, ser-
geants, or policemen of such city or corporation, to be paid in lieu
of all fees for serving criminal process of any kind, which allow-
ance shall be paid out of the treasury; provided that when any in-
corporated communities have become cities of the second class un-
der the act approved March ten, nineteen hundred and ten, enti-
tled ‘“‘An act to provide for the organization and government of in-
corporated communities which shall become hereafter cities of
the second class, as provided by law,” then the allowances above
provided for shall be made by the said circuit court of the said
city.
2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are here-
by repealed.

3. There being an emergency, this act is ordered to be in force
and effect immediately upon its passage.