Chap. 121.-An. ACT: to. “amend and resenact an act entitled:;“An act re-
. .quiring clerks of courts te..make report to the State Registrar. of Vital
' | Statistics of all divorces, granted and pending”, approved March 15, 1918.

_ Approved March 12, 1938 .

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act requiring clerks of courts to make report to the
State Registrar of Vital Statistics of all divorces granted and pend-
ing, approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be
amended and re-enacted so-as to: read as follows: , 3
~~ Section 1. Report of divorces by clerk to registrar of vital sta-
tistics —The clerk of every court authorized to grant divorces in Vir-
ginia shall on or before the tenth day of each month forward to the
State Registrar of Vital Statistics a report of each divorce and of
each annulment of a marriage granted in his court during the pre-
ceding month, on the forms provided by the Bureau of Vital Sta-
tistics for that purpose. :

The reports shall include :alleged cause, sex, occupation, and color
of plaintiff and defendant, date and place of marriage, number of
children in family, and time of separation, provided however, the
record discloses such information.

Such reports shall be filed and preserved in the said registrar’s
office, and from them the registrar shall prepare annually a compila-
tion of divorces in each county and corporation and make a report
of such compilation to the General Assembly at each regular session.

There shall be allowed to such clerks a compensation of twenty-
five cents for every divorce reported, to be paid as a part of the costs
of the suit. This compensation shall be in lieu of the fee mentioned
in paragraph fifty-four (54) of section thirty-four hundred and eighty-
four of the Code of Virginia, as amended. :

The State Registrar shall certify to the Comptroller the number of
divorces and annulments reported by each clerk.