Chap. 324.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, 4s amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3531 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by acts approved March 3, 1898, and April 2, 1902, in
relation to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, and constables. (H. B. 381.)

Approved March 27, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-five hundred and thirty-one of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by act approved March twelfth, nine-
teen hundred and eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tion thirty-five hundred and thirty-one of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by acts approved March third, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, and April second, nineteen hundred and two, in rela-
tion to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers and constables, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 3531. For serving a warrant or summons other than on a
witness where no arrest is made, thirty cents; for an arrest in a
case of misdemeanor, when not paid out of the treasury, eighty
cents; for an arrest in a case of felony, one dollar; for executing a
search warrant, fifty cents; for summoning a witness in a felony
case, twenty cents; for summoning a witness in a misdemeanor
case, when not paid out of the treasury, thirty cents. But not more
than forty-five cents shall be allowed out of the treasury for sum-
moning witnesses in a case of misdemeanor, upon the trial of such
misdemeanor before a justice, nor more than one dollar in a case
of felony, unless the justice shall certify that the witnesses in a
case of felony, in excess of five were examined on the trial and
were material witnesses; and when two or more persons are arrested
under one warrant, or are jointly charged or tried, the officer shall
be entitled only to such fees for summoning witnesses as if only
one person was arrested, charged, or tried. For carrying a prisoner
to jail under the order of a justice, for each mile traveled of him-
self in going and returning, four cents; for each mile traveled of
the prisoner in carrying him to jail, where the distance is over ten
miles, four cents; for board of prisoner while under arrest and
undergoing examination on a charge of felony, or while carrying
him to jail, the amount actually paid by such officer, not exceeding
one dollar per day; for each person employed in making the arrest
of any person charged with a felony, not exceeding seventy-five
cents per day; for a guard in a case of felony, per day, seventy-five
cents; for each mile traveled of guard in going to jail and return-
ing, four cents. But no guard shall be paid in any case of mis-
demeanor, or employed or paid in a felony case, unless the justice
order it and certify that such guard could not safely be dispensed
with. For executing the first writ of venire facias at a term, five
dollars, and one dollar and fifty cents for executing every other
writ of venire facias at same term; provided where an officer goes
out of his city or county to execute writ of venire facias, he shall
receive ten dollars for executing the writ, and his actual necessary
expenses, to be set out in a sworn account to be approved by the
court.