Chap. 62.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new sec-
tion numbered 4797-a, providing that certain fees and mileage for services of
special policemen in counties shall be taxed and collected and paid into the
treasury of the counties, and that part-time deputy sheriffs may serve as county
policemen. [S 142]

Approved February 26, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new
section numbered forty-seven hundred ninety-seven-a, as follows:

Section 4797-a. In criminal prosecutions there shall be charged and
taxed for services rendered by special policemen of counties the same
fees and mileage allowances provided by law to be collected for the serv-
ices of sheriffs and their deputies in similar cases. Such fees and mileage
allowance accruing in connection with any criminal matter shall be col-
lected by the clerk of the court in which the prosecution is had, and shall
be paid by the clerk into the treasury of the county for which the special
policeman was appointed. Any part-time deputy of the sheriff may be
appointed as a county policeman. It shall be the duty of such special
police officers to collect any such fees and mileage allowances not collected
by the clerk, and to execute any writ of fieri facias issued for such fees
and mileage. )

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