Chap. 310.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 329 and section 377, chapter
21 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act approved March 14,
1912, and to repeal sections 315 and 316, chapter 21, of the Code of Virginia
of 1887, in reference to the public defense. (H B 191]

Approved March 20, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three hundred and twenty-nine and section three hundred and seventy-
seven, chapter twenty-one of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, in reference to the public defense, as amended by an
act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 329. Collection of fines imposed by court martial.—For the
purpose of collecting any fines or penalties imposed by a court martial,
the president of the court, or the summary court officer, shall, within
fifteen days after the fines or penalties have been imposed and approved,
anake a list of all the persons fined, describing them distinctly, and show-
ing the sums imposed as fines or penalties on each person, and shall
draw his warrant, under his official signature, directed to any marshal
of the court, or to the sheriff, sergeant, or constable of any city or
county, as the case may be, thereby commanding him to levy such fines
or penalties, together with the costs, on the goods and chattels of such
delinquent, and the said warrant shall thereupon have the force and
effect of a fieri facias, but such delinquent shall not be entitled to the
benefit of any exemption law of this Commonwealth, as against such
‘warrant and the lien thereof. In default of sufficient personal property
to satisfy the same, the officer executing the same shall take the body
of the delinquent and convey him to the jail of the city or county in
which he may be found, whose jailer shall closely confine him without
bail for one day for any fine or penalty not exceeding one dollar, and
one additional day for every dollar above that sum, unless the fine or
penalty and jailer’s fees be sooner paid. No such imprisonment shall
extend beyond the period of ten days.

Section 377. Military board.—For the purpose of controlling and
‘directing the expenditures and disbursements provided for in this chap-
ter, the governor, the adjutant general, the senior officer of volun-
teers, the secretary of the Commonwealth, and one other member to
hold office during the pleasure of the governor and to be appointed by
him, such member to be an officer of volunteers of more than three
years’ service and above the rank of captain and residing in the city of
Richmond, shall be, and are hereby, created a board to be known as
the “military board,”’ upon the order in writing of any three of whom,
but not otherwise, the adjutant general shall issue his warrant for such
sum as shall be directed, payable out of the military fund. But no bill,
claim, or allowance, shall be ordered for payment by said board unless
it is itemized, and its correctness sworn to, for which purpose any mem-
ber of the board may administer the oath. Expenditures not specifi-
cally provided for in this chapter, but manifestly in execution of its
general purpose, and for the evident benefit of the volunteer services,
may be made by said board, but only on the concurrence and the order
in writing of all the members.
2. Section three hundred and fifteen and section three hundred and
sixteen, chapter twenty-one, of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, in reference to the public defense be, and the same are
hereby repealed.