Chap. 437.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3487 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 25, 1920. {H B 417]

Approved March 27, 1922.

1. Beé it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-four hundred and eighty-seven of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved March twenty-fifth, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3487. Sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners and constables.
—(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 is 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 carrying a prisoner, other than a prisoner arrested for
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
under 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 necessary travel, either going or returning, five cents.

(10) For taking any 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,
fifty cents. ,

(13) When a jury is summoned upon a writ of ad quod damnum,
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 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
such 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,
the same fees as provided in section thirty-five hundred and ten, o1
acts amendatory thereof.

(18) For keeping and supporting any horse or mule distrained or
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,
one dollar and fifty cents.

Provided, however, that in cities having a population of more than
twenty-five thousand inhabitants by the last preceding United States
census or other enumeration authorized by law, the fee shall not
exceed the sum of fifty cents.

The circuit court of any county or the corporation court of a
corporation may, at any time, fix or alter the rates to be thenceforth
paid in such county or corporation for keeping and supporting 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 keeping prop-
erty not before mentioned or in removing any property; and when,
after distraining or levying on tangible property he neither sells
nor receives payment, and either takes no forthcoming bond, or takes
one which is not forfeited, he shall, if in default, have (in addition
to 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
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 ten per centum on the first one hundred dollars
of the money for which the distress or levy is; five per centum on the
next four hundred dollars, 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 accrue on such bond, or the execution of judg-
ment thereon, the officer shall be entitled to his proportionable share
thereof, on account of his fees included in said bond. An officer
receiving payment 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.

In cities of sixty thousand inhabitants and more, however, the
-ommission to be included in a forthcoming bond, when one is taken,
shall be ten per centum on the first one hundred dollars of the money
for 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 plain-
tiffs, and of whatever interest may accrue on such bond, or the
execution of 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 ten per centum on the first one 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.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby
epealew. !

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