CHAPTER 572

An Act to amend and reenact § 14-85, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to certain fees paid from State Treasury to certain sheriffs
and sergeants for attending certain courts.

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Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 14-85, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

14-85. There shall be paid out of the State treasury to sheriffs and
sergeants, after the same are duly certified to the Comptroller, the follow-
ing fees: For attending any circuit court engaged in the trial of civil or
criminal cases, or both, or for attending the Law and Equity Court of the
city of Richmond, the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, the Circuit
Court of the city of Richmond, the Law and Equity. Court of the city of
Richmond, Part Two, the Law and Chancery Court of the city of Norfolk
or the Law and Chancery Court of the city of Roanoke, * four dollars for
each day’s attendance. And the judge of any such court may allow any
deputy, whose attendance he deems advisable and requires as an assistant
to the principal officer, such compensation as he may deem proper and
just, not exceeding * four dollars a day. The Chancery Court, Law of
Equity Court, the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, Part
Two, and the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond, however, shall make
the allowance authorized by this section for one deputy in attendance upon
the court as well as to the sheriff. This section shall not apply to any
sheriff or sergeant who is on a salary basis nor to any deputy of any
sheriff or sergeant whose principal is on a salary basis.
pe This act shall be in effect on and after January one, nineteen hundred

ty-seven.