CHAPTER 251

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-185, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to certain fees which shall be charged by certain
justices of the peace.

[H 347]

Approved March 18, 1954

Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 14-135, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 14-135. A justice of the peace may, for services performed by him
by virtue of his office, charge the following fees, to-wit:

(1) For taking and certifying the acknowledgment of any deed or
other writing, fifty cents.

For administering and certifying an oath, unless it be the affi-
davit of a witness, or acknowledgment of bail, or issuing process of
attachment, twenty-five cents.

(3) For taking and certifying affidavits or depositions of witnesses,
when done in an hour, one dollar.

(4) If not done in an hour, for any additional time, at the rate per
hour of seventy-five cents.

(5) For issuing any warrant in which the Commonwealth is not
plaintiff, including the issuing of subpoenas, fifty cents, provided, how-
ever, that the charge therefor shall be one dollar in cities having a popu-
lation between * thirty-nine thousand and forty-five thousand or having
a population between sixty thousand and sixty-one thousand, or having
a population between eighty thousand and ninety thousand, or having a
population between two hundred thousand and two hundred twenty
thousand.

(6) For other services, a justice of the peace shall have the same
fee as the clerk of a circuit or city court for like services.
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