Chap. 372.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3107 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, [H B 123)
Approved March 20, 1920,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-one hundred and seven of the Code of nineteen hundred
and nineteen be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted s0
as to read as follows:

sec. 3107. Dismissal of claims.—If any claim of which the civil
and police justice is given jurisdiction by sub-section “b” of section
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thirty-one hundred and two shall have been pending before such. civil
and police justice sixty days, he shall notify the parties that the same
will be dismissed in ten days thereafter unless good cause be shown
to the contrary, and unless such cause be shown, such civil and police
justice shall forthwith dismiss such claim.

All papers connected with any of the proceedings in the trial
of cases before such civil and police justice, except such as may be
removed on appeal, and except also such papers in criminal matters
as are required by law to be returned to and lodged in the clerk’s
office of a court of record of such city, shall be properly indexed and
filed and preserved and in claims of which the civil and police justice
iS given jurisdiction by sub-section “b” of section thirty-one hundred
and two, the civil justice and police justice, as the case may be, at or
before the time of hearing or trial on any such claim, shall require
the plaintiff (in such claim) to pay to said civil justice or police justice
the sum of twenty-five cents for the filing and indexing of the papers
in such case. The said filing and indexing fee shall be taxed as a
part of the costs. Said civil justice or police justice shall monthly
pay into the treasury of his city all filing and indexing fees so paid
to him.