Chap. 395.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1021 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to the insane, epileptic, feeble-minded and ney 165)

Approved March 23, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ten hundred and twenty-one of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1021. The two physicians shall receive a fee of five dollars
each for their services. The justice of the peace shall receive a fee of
two dollars for his services. The officer making the arrest and sum-
moning the commission and witnesses shall receive the same fees as
are allowed for like services in a felony case. The witnesses regularly
summoned before such commission shall receive such compensation
for their attendance and mileage as is allowed witnesses summoned to
testify before grand juries. The justice and each physician shall re-
ceive like mileage. All expenses incurred, whether such person ‘be
committed to any State hospital, or colony, or not, including the fees,
attendance and mileage aforesaid, shall be paid by the county or city
of which such person was a legal resident at the time of such commit-
ment; provided, that if such person’s residence is not established in
the State of Virginia, costs shall be paid by the State.