CHAPTER 290

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-76 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to payment of tax prior to issuance of writs, docketing of removed
or appealed warrants and other notice by clerks; and to exonerate
clerks for certain failures to collect writ taxes. P

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Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
ta That § 58-76 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 58-76. No clerk shall issue any writ, or docket any removed or
appealed warrant, or any notice mentioned in this article until the tax
thereon shall be paid; but his failure to collect the tax shall not invalidate
the proceeding. No clerk shall be held responsible for failure to collect
the on tax on cross-claims filed prior to July one, nineteen hundred
sixty-four.