Chap. 163.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3508 of the Code of
Virginia, in relation to fees of certain oflicers, as heretofore amended.
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Approved March 13, 1918.

__ Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-five hundred and eight of the Code of Virginia, in relation to
fees of certain officers, as heretofore amended, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

For serving on any person a declaration in ejectment or an order,
notice, summons, or other process when the body is not taken and
making return thereof, fifty cents.

For serving on any person an attachment or other process under
which the body is taken and making return thereof, one dollar.

For receiving a person in jail, twenty-five cents.

For discharging a person from jail, twenty-five cents.

For carrying a prisoner, to or from jail, each mile necessary
either in going or returning, five cents, each for officer and prisoner.

For taking any bond, sixty cents.

When a petit Jury is sworn in court, for impaneling and sum-
moning such jury, one dollar and fifty cents.

For serving any order of court not otherwise provided for, fifty
cents.

When a jury is summoned upon a writ of ad quad demnum, or
any inquest in vacation, for summoning them, one dollar.

And for attending at the place of their meeting, one dollar.

And if the jury attend there, and a verdict or inquisition be
found and returned, two dollars.

Provided, however, that where more than one writ of ad quod
damnum is executed by the same jury in the same case upon the
same summons, the sheriff shall have but one fee for summoning the
jury and attending at their place of meeting, and shall be allowed
but one dollar additional for each additional inquisition found and
returned.

For serving a writ of possession. one dollar and fifty cents.
For serving a writ of distringas or detinue on a judgment or
decree for personal property, if the specific thing be taken, one dol-
lar and fifty cents.

For keeping and supporting any person confined in jail, for the
same fees as provided in section thirty-five, thirty-two cents.

For search and return of writ of distringas or detinue where the
property is not found, fifty cents.

For keeping and supporting any horse or mule distrained or
levied on, for each day when stall fed, seventy-five cents.

And for each day when pastured, twenty-five cents.

For each hog or head of cattle, per day, fifteen cents.

For each sheep or goat, per day, ten cents.

The circuit court of any county or the corporation or hustings
court of a corporation may, at any time, fix or alter the rates to be
henceforth paid in such county or corporation for keeping and sup-
porting any person in jail, or any horse or live stock, but the rates
so fixed or altered shall never exceed those hereinbefore mentioned.
The officer shall be paid any necessary expense incurred by him in
keping property not before mentioned or in removing any property ;
and when, after distraining or levying, he neither sells nor receives
payment, and either takes no forthcoming bond, or takes one which
is not forfeited, he shall, if in no default, have (in addition to the
sixty cents for a bond, if one was taken) a fee of three dollars.

nless this is more than one-half of what his commission would
have amounted to if he had received payment, in which case he
shall (whether a bond was taken or not) have a fee of at least one
dollar and so much more as is necessary to make the said half.

The commission to be included in a forthcoming bond, when one
is taken, shall be five per centum on the first five hundred dollars
of the money which the distress or levy is, and two per centum on
the residue of said money; but such commission shall not be received
unless the bond is forfeited-or paid (including the commission), to
the plaintiffs, and of whatever interest may accrue on such bond,
or the execution or judgment thereon, the officer shall be entitled to
his proportionable share thereof, on account of his fees included in
said bond. An officer receiving payment in money or selling goods
shall receive the like commission of five per centum on the first five
hundred dollars of the money paid or proceeding from the sale,
and two per centum on the residue, except that when such payment
or sale is on an execution on a forthcoming bond, his commission
shall only be half what it would be if the execution were not on
such bond; and where officer makes a levy and then a settlement is
made with the officer, or any other person, the officer shall receive
same commissions as if receiving payment in money or selling goods.

All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.