Chap. 199.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3487 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, Coroners
and constables. (fH B 294]

Approved March 13, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-four hundred and eighty-seven of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 3487. First: The fees of sheriffs, sergeants, criers, coroners
and constables shall be as follows:

Second: For service on any person, firm or corporation, a declara-
tion in ejectment, order, notice, summons, or any other civil process,
except as hereinafter otherwise provided, and for serving on any
person, firm, or corporation any other process when the body is not
taken, and making return thereof, the sum of seventy-five cents:
except that in cities having a population of more than sixty thousand,
according to the last preceding United States census, the fee for such
service shall be fifty cents; and except where service of the fore-
going is directed to more than three defendants, or witnesses, a fee of!
fifty cents shall be charged for said service on each additional de-
fendant or witness in excess of the number of three.

Third: For summoning a witness or garnishee on an attachment
seventy-five cents; except that in cities having a population of more
than sixty thousand, according to the last preceding United States
census, the fee for such service shall be fifty cents; and except where
service of the foregoing is directed to more than one witness or gar-
nishee, in which event a fee of fifty cents shall be charged for each
additional witness or garnishee in excess of the number of one.

Fourth: For serving on any person an attachment or other
process under which the body is taken, and making a return thereon
one dollar.

Fifth: For summoning any witness to appear before any coroner’s
inquest, a fee of fifty cents.

Sixth: For attendance at any coroner’s inquest two dollars.

Seventh: For receiving persons in jail twenty-five cents.

Eighth: For discharging a person from jail twenty-five cents.

Ninth: For carrying a prisoner to or from jail, and every mile of
necessary travel an amount equivalent to the necessary toll and ferry
charges incurred by the officer, if any, and five cents per mile, which
shall be charged and taxed as a part of the court costs.

Tenth: 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 overseer) and every mile
of necessary travel either going or returning, five cents.

Eleventh: For taking any bond, one dollar.

Twelfth: When a petit jury is sworn in court, for swearing and
impaneling each such jury, one dollar and fifty cents.

Thirteenth: For serving any order of court not otherwise pro-
vided for seventy-five cents.

Fourteenth: For serving a writ of possession one dollar and fifty
cents.

Fifteenth: For keeping and supporting any person confined in
jail, the same fees as are provided for in section thirty-five hundred
and ten and all acts amendatory thereof.

Sixteenth: For keeping and supporting any horse or mule dis-
trained or levied on for each day when stall fed, eighty cents.

Seventeenth: And for each day when pastured twenty-five cents.

Fighteenth: For every hog or head of cattle per day fifteen cents.

Nineteenth: For every sheep or goat per day ten cents.

Twentieth: For levying an execution or distress warrant or an
attachment one dollar and fifty cents.

Provided that nothing hereinabove contained shall be construed
to in anywise alter or amend section thirty-five hundred and seventy
of the Code of Virginia.

The circuit court of any county, or the corporation court may,
at any time, fix or alter the rates to be thence forth paid in such
county or corporation for keeping and supporting any person in jail,
or any horse or livestock, 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 property 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 for-
feited, 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 of 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 such 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 of
the first one hundred dollars of the money paid of proceeds from 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 one hundred thousand inhabitants and more, however,
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 of 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
plaintiffs, and whatever interest may accrue on such bonds, or the
execution of judgment thereon, the officer shall be entitled to his
proportionable share thereof, on account of his fees included in said
sale. 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.