CHAPTER 19

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 14-116 of the Code of 1950 relating
to costs charged for certain services.
[S 75]

Approved February 15, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14-116 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 14-116. Sheriffs, sergeants and criers generally.—The fees
of sheriffs, sergeants and criers shall be as follows:

(1) For service on any person, firm or corporation, a declara-
tion in ejectment, order, notice, summons or any other civil pro-
cess, except as herein 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 * one hun-
dred twenty thousand but less than one hundred ninety thousand the
fee for such service shall be fifty cents; and except that when
service of the foregoing is directed to more than three defendants
or witnesses, a fee of fifty cents shall be charged for such service
on each additional defendant or witness in excess of the number of
three.

(2) For summoning a witness or garnishee on an attachment,
seventy-five cents; except that in cities having a population of more
than * one hundred twenty thousand but less than one hundred
ninety thousand the fee for such service shall be fifty cents; and
except that when service of the foregoing is directed to more "than
one witness or garnishee a fee of fifty cents shall be charged for
each additional witness or garnishee in excess of the number of one.

(3) For serving on any person an attachment or other process
Paria which the body is taken and making a return thereon, one
dollar.

(4) For summoning any witness to appear before any coron-
er’s inquest, fifty cents.

(5) For attendance at any coroner’s inquest, two dollars.

(6) For receiving persons in jail, twenty-five cents.

(7) For discharging a person from jail, twenty-five cents.

(8) 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.

(9) For removing a person by virtue of a warrant issued
under chapter 13 of Title 63 by a justice of the peace or a qualified
poor relief officer and every mile of necessary travel either going or
returning, five cents.

(10) For taking any bond, one dollar.

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

(12) For serving any order of court not otherwise provided
for, seventy-five cents.

(18) For serving a writ of possession, one dollar and fifty
cents.

(14) For keeping and supporting any horse or mule distrained
or levied on for each day when stall fed, eighty cents.

(15) And for each day when pastured, twenty-five cents.

(16) For every hog or head of cattle per day, fifteen cents.

(17) For every sheep or goat per day, ten cents.

(18) For levying an execution or distress warrant or an at-
tachment, one dollar and fifty cents.