Chap. 336.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 814 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and
re-enacted by an act approved December 10, 1908, approved December 17,
1903. (S. B. 323.)

Approved March 27, 1914.

i. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eight hundred and fourteen of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act approved December the tenth,
nineteen hundred and three, and as amended by an act approved
December tenth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 814. Bonds of officers.—Every county treasurer, the sheriff
of a county, county clerk, every clerk of a city court, every clerk of
a circuit court, and every commissioner of the revenue, superin-
tendent of the poor, county surveyor or supervisor, constable, and
overseer of the poor shall, at the time he qualifies, give such bond
as is required by section one hundred and seventy-seven. The
penalty of the bond of each officer, to be determined within the
limits herein prescribed, by the court, judge, or clerk before whom
he qualifies, shall be as follows: Of the bond of the county treas-
urer, not less than double the amount to be received annually by
him; the penalty of the bond of a sheriff of a county, not less than
ten nor more than sixty thousand dollars—if said county treasurer
shall elect to give as surety on his bond some guaranty or security
company doing business in the State of Virginia, and deemed sufl-
cient by the court, judge or clerk before whom he qualifies, he may
execute such bond on a form to be prescribed by the attorney gen-
eral and to be furnished by the auditor of public accounts to the
clerks of the several courts, and the penalty of said bond shall be
such as the court, judge, or clerk may require, but not less than
seventy-five percentum of the amount to be received annually by
him; if the sheriff of a county shall elect to give as surety on his
bond such guaranty or surety company, the penalty of such bond
shall not be less than five thousand nor more than thirty thousand
dollars; of the bond of the county clerk or clerk of a city or circuit
court, not less than three thousand dollars, and the bond of such
clerk shall bind him and his sureties not only for the faithful dis-
charge of his duties as clerk of said court, but also for the faithful
discharge of such other duties as may be imposed upon him by law,
in like manner and with the same effect as if it were so expressed
in the conditions of his said bond; of the bond of the commissioner
of the revenue, not less than one thousand nor more than three
thousand dollars; of the bond of the superintendent of the poor,
not less than four thousand dollars; of the bond of a county sur-
veyor, not less than two thousand dollars; of the bond of super-
visor, not less than one thousand nor more than ¢wo thousand, five
hundred dollars; of the bond of a constable, not less than five hun-
dred dollars; of the bond of an overseer of the poor, double the
amount that will actually pass through his hands as such overseer.
not less in any case than five hundred dollars; provided that noth-
ing in this act shall be construed as requiring the Commonwealth
or any county in the State to pay the cost of said security when
given by such guaranty or security company.