Chap. 338.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Vir.
ginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to commissions of lunacy anc
their fees (affecting section 1021 of the report of the revisors of the

Code). {H B 358)
Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha
section sixteen hundred and seventy-one of the Code of Virginia
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read a
follows:

Section 1671. Disposition and proceedings before commission:
fees, et cetera.—The interrogatories to the witnesses and the answer
thereto shall be in writing; and, together with a written statement
by the commission of any matter known to them as to the facts
of insanity, shall be promptly transmitted by the judge or justice
of the peace with his order; and a record thereof shall be kept by
the clerk of the county or corporation court. The two physicians
shall receive a fee of two dollars and fifty cents each and mileage,
mileage to be the same as paid to jurors for their services. The
justice of the peace shall receive a fee of two dollars for his ser-
vices, and mileage as herein before provided for doctors, and all
witnesses regularly summoned before such commission of lunacy
shall receive for their attendance upon the same the sum of fifty
cents for each day’s attendance. AI] expenses incurred in commit-
ting a patient to any State hospital, including the fees aforesaid,
shall be borne by the county or corporation from which such patient
1s sent.