CHAPTER 360

An Act to amend and reenact § 16-77 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain supplies for trial justices.
[H 276]

Approved April 2, 1954
Be it enacted by the Genera] Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 16-77 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 16-77. Each trial justice shall keep a docket. The dockets shall
be made uniform and furnished by the State and paid for out of such
funds in the general fund as are not otherwise specifically appropriated
and shall be approved by the Auditor of Public Accounts, as to form.
All causes tried and prosecuted and all matters coming before the trial
justice and the final disposition of the same, together with an account of
costs and fines, shall be entered in such dockets. The board of super-
visors or other governing body of each county and the council of each
city and town within the jurisdiction of each trial justice shall provide
suitable quarters for the court of such trial justice at the places desig-
nated as aforesaid, within their respective counties, towns and cities. *
The State shall provide necessary books, stationery and supplies. * Such
books and supplies shall be kept by the trial justice subject to the super-
vision of the circuit court of each of the counties in which he is the trial
justice.