Chap. 327.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-m, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to fees taxable by trial justices, so as to provide for
taxing Commonwealth’s attorney’s fees in criminal and juvenile and domestic

relations cases. [S 218]
Approved March 29, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section forty-nine hundred eighty-seven-m, as amended, of
the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 4987-m.. Fees taxable and chargeable by trial justices and
clerks ; disposition of fees and fines——(a) The trial justice shall tax in
the costs for services rendered by him and his clerk and by the Common-
wealth’s attorney in criminal actions and proceedings and as judge of the
juvenile and domestic relations court, the following fees only :

(1) For issuing a warrant of arrest including the issuing of all sub-
poenas, one dollar ;

(2) For issuing a search warrant, one dollar ;

(3) For trying or examining a case of misdemeanor or felony, in-
cluding swearing of witnesses and taxing costs, two dollars ;

(4) For admitting any person to bail, including the taking of the
necessary bond, one dollar, which shall, notwithstanding other provisions
to the contrary, be collected at the time of admitting the person to bail ;

_(5) For services rendered by the Commonwealth’s attorney in any
such case in which he is required by law to appear, and in which he ac-
tually appears on behalf of the Common wealth, a fee of two dollars.and
hity cents.

(b) The trial justice and his dlerk shall charge and collect for serv-
ices rendered by them in civil actions and proceedings the following fees
only:

(1) For issuing any civil warrant, attachment, summons in inter-
rogatory proceedings or summons in garnishment, where there is one
defendant, fifty cents; where there are two or more defendants in the
same warrant, attachment or summons, fifty cents for the first defendant
and twenty-five cents for each additional defendant ;

(2) For issuing a summons for a witness, twenty-five cents for each
witness ;

(3) For trying and giving judgment on a civil warrant, notice of
motion, attachment or in a garnishment proceeding, including taxing
costs, issuing the first execution, filing papers upon return of executions,
and issuing one abstract of judgment, one dollar, to be paid by the plaintiff
at or before the time of hearing ;

(4) For issuing each additional execution and writ and each addi-
tional abstract of judgment, twenty-five cents ;

(5) For approving any bond, fifty cents ;

(6) For taking affidavits and administering oaths and affirmations,
twenty-five cents; but no fee shall be charged or collected for taking affi-
davits or administering oaths or affirmations in any proceeding pending
before the trial justice.

(c) Enumeration of the foregoing fees shall not relieve any trial
justice or clerk from performing any duty imposed upon him by law,
although no fee be herein set forth covering the services required. In all
proceedings the trial justice shall tax as costs all charges properly con-
stituting the same.

(d) All fees paid to and collected by the trial justice, the substitute
trial justice, the trial justice clerk, or substitute trial justice clerk, but not
including fees belonging to officers other than the trial justice, his clerk,
or clerks, shall be paid promptly to the clerk of the circuit court, who
shall pay same into the State treasury. If a fee is collected for services
of the attorney for the Commonwealth, one-half. of such fee shall be paid
into the treasury of the county or city in which the offense for which
warrant issued was committed, and the other one-half of the fees collected
for the services of the attorney for the Commonwealth shall be paid
promptly to the clerk of the circuit court, who shall pay same into the
treasury of the State. Fines collected for violations of city, town, or
county ordinances shall be paid promptly into the treasury of the city,
town, or county whose ordinance has been violated. All fines collected for
violations of the laws of the Commonwealth shall be paid promptly to the
clerk of the circuit court, who shall pay the same into the treasury of the
State. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.