Chap. 480.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, concerning fees of sheriffs, sergeant, criers, and constables. [H B 168]

Approved March 25, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-four hundred and eighty-seven of the code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

(1) The fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers and constables shall be
as follows:

(2) For serving on any person a declaration in ejectment or an
order, notice, summons, or other process when the body 1s not taken
and making return thereof, fifty cents.

(3) For summoning a witness or garnishee on an attachment.
fifty cents.

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

(5) For serving a warrant under chapter two hundred and fifty.
fifty cents.

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

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

(8) For carrving a prisoner, other than a prisoner arrested tor
felony or misdemeanor, to or from jail, each mile of necessary travel.
either in going or returning, five cents.

(9) For removing a person, by virtue of a warrant issued tinder
chapter one hundred and eleven by a justice. or one of the overseers
of the poor (to be charged to said overseers), for each mile of neces-

sary travel, either going or returning, five cents.

(10) For taking anv bond, sixty cents.
(11) When a petit juror is sworn in court, for impaneling and
summoning such jury, one dollar and fifty cents.

(12) For serving any order of court, not otherwise provided for,
nity cents.

(13) When a jury is summoned upon a writ of ad quod dammum,
or any inquest in vacation, for summoning them, one dollar.

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

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

But when more than one writ of ad quod dammum is executed by
he 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
lace of meeting and shall be allowed but one dollar additional for
uch additional inquisition found and returned.

(16) For serving a writ of possession, one dollar and’ fifty cents.

(17) For keeping and supporting any person confined in jail,
he same fees as provided in section thirty-five hundred and ten, or
cts amendatory thereof.

(18) For keeping and supporting any horse or mule distrained
yr levied on, for each day when stall fed, eighty cents.

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

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

(21) For each sheep or goat, per day, ten cents.

(22) For levying an execution or distress warrant or attachment,
yne dollar and fifty cents.

The circuit court of any county or the corporation court of a cor-
oration may, at any time, fix or alter the rates to be thenceforth
vaid in such county or corporation for keeping and supporting any
erson in jail, or any horse or live stock, but the rates so fixed or
Itered shall never exceed those hereinbefore mentioned. The officer
hall be paid any necessary expense incurred by him in keeping prop-
tty not before mentioned or in removing any property; and when,
fter distraining or levying on tangible property he neither sells nor
ecelves payment, and either takes no forthcoming bond, or takes
ne which is not forfeited, he shall, if in default, have (in addition
o the sixty cents for a bond, if one was taken) a fee of three dollars.

Unless this is more than one-half of what his commission would
ave 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,
nd so much more as is necessary to make the said half.

The commission to be included in a forthcoming bond, when one
; taken, shall be ten per centum on the first one hundred dollars of
he money for which the distress or levy is; five per centum on the
ext four hundred dollars, and two per centum on the residue of said
1oney ; but such commission shall not be received unless the bond 1s
orfeited or paid (including the commission) to the plaintiffs, and of
‘hatever interest accrue on such bond, or the execution of judgment
hereon, the officer shall be entitled to his proportionable share thereof.
n account of his fees included in said bond. An officer receiving pay-
ment under an execution or other process in money, or selling goods
shall receive the like commission of ten per centum on the first one
hundred dollars of the money paid or proceeds from the sale, five per
centum on the next four hundred dollars, and two per centum on the
residue ; except that when such payment or sale is on execution on a
forthcoming bond, his commission shall only be half what it would be
if the execution were not on such bond.

All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.