Chap. 397.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4988, subsection 26 of the
Code of Virginia, 1930. [S B 353]

Approved March Z9, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-nine hundred and eighty-eight, subsection twenty-six, of the Code
of Virginia, nineteen hundred and thirty, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 4988. Salaries of justice and clerk; charging and cellecting
fees; continuance fee not to be taxed as costs : disposition and report
of fees.—The trial justice shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board
of supervisors at not less than twenty-five hundred dollars per annum
nor more than five thousand dollars per annum, and the clerk shall
receive a Salary to be fixed in like manner at not less than eighteen
hundred dollars per annum nor more than twenty-four hundred dollars
per annum. Such salaries shall be paid in monthly installments out of
the treasury of the county, and neither the trial justice nor clerk shall
receive any other compensation, either directly or indirectly, for his
services as such. The trial justice and clerk shall charge and collect
from litigants and defendants all the fees which justices of the peace
for counties not affected by this act are authorized to charge and collect,
and the fees now paid out of the State treasury to the justices of the
peace for issuing criminal warrants, and in civil cases the trial justice
shall charge and collect for every second or subsequent continuance of
the case a fee of fifty cents, to be paid, at the time such continuance is
granted, by the party on whose motion or at whose request such con-
tinuance is granted, but such continuance fee shall not be taxed as a
part of the costs of such case.

Out of all such fees collected, the officers’ fees shall first be paid,
and the balance, including fees for admitting to bail persons accused of
criminal offenses or of violation of ordinances or by-laws, and all other
fees and charges of every character, shall be paid monthly into the
county treasury. The trial justice and clerk may make a joint report
in detail of the fees collected by them respectively.