Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-03-09
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
SKETCH OF THE LAWS,

l. Monday, tie tn December, 1920.
Cconcludesl.
76. An act, TO amend the act, entitled ga
act tn amend an act appointing commissioners
"a collect certsin monies due the county ct
St4farl, and for other purposes"
II. An act concerning the cotsty jul OF
Fa Qrlier.
20. An act, aut',orisng the county courts
OF Greenbrier and Cabell To appoint one or
mere Git persons to celebrate the rites OF ma.
trimony therein.
~. An act, altering the time for holding the
superior court of chancery fer the Williams
burg district, sppoints The 10th of january
and 9Th OF July annually for the commence
ment of its sessions.
80 An act, to amend the several acts rela.
ting 80 the appointment snd duties of sheriT.,
provides, that il, st any time after the QuaiIi-
cation OF any sheriff OF any county, success
sor TO the office shall! not be duly appointed,
commissioned and qualified, at or before the
| next court of the county after that at winch
the Office ot said sheriff would have expired,
it successor had been regularly appointed.
commissioned and qualified as esrly as the
law would allow, then the sheriff in Office
shall be considered as duly appointed to con-
tinue in the said Office for The space OF one
year from the time when his former office
would have expired as aforesaid but If the
said sheriff, at or before the next court Of his
county sftec that at viii ch his successor might
have been qualified as above mentioned, shall
! fail to enter into all the bonds required. by
! law of other sheriff.. a,l ts1e the proper
| oaths of oficc, his office shall from thercefor.
wal d be deemed vacant and the duties there
| OF shall be performed as IN all other cases of
vacancy, until the Office shall be regularly fl
led. the condition OF the bonds taken from
| shcriils continuing in Office, shatl differ
from the condition prescr bed for bonds taken
from other sheritfs only in this, that next al:
ter these words pres cribed in said conditions,
to wit: "by commission from the Governor,
under the seal of the Co mmonwealth, dated
| the day OF >" there shall be
inserted the following, viz 'eaud coniinued
in office by the fcilare Of the qualification Of a
| successor, pursuant to law" and that the
| words " iast PAST" in said condition prescrih-
| ed, shall be omitted The sheriff may thus
| be continued in office ftom year TO year,
| IS long successor sIis3l fail 10 be duly
| qualified as s'cove prescrb ed and the iermer
| official bonds given by sa eh sheriff, shall al
! ways continue in force, until the new bonds
shall be given by him, as herein required, or
| until he shall have vacated his office By his
| failure to give them. The condition of every
bond hereafter taken from sheriff or public
collector, Tor the collections OF taxes and al
rears OF taxes, shall be So framed as tn Sc.
| cure, also, the true and faithful collect.
| ing, accounting fur, and paying the militia
| fines imposed by law, and arrea rs of militia
| fines due in his county. And the cosditon
of every sheriff. bond hereafter taken Tor
| the collection of levieS, fines, forfeitures and
| amercements, shall be made to embrace the
| collection OF all poor rates assessed in las
| county, by inserting in the form OF the condi-
ton prescribed by lax, the words, " and poor
rates" next sfter the word {" ieries.' 1t shall
| be the official duty of evory sheriff hereafter
| qualified, to collect the county levies and
| poor rates, and to account therefor in the
manner prescribed by law and no other coll
lec,or thereof shall be appointed, either by
| the county court or the Oytrseers of the pour,
/ unless when the Office of sheriff shall be va
cant. II any sheriff shall fail to account for,
and pay to the overseers of the poor, or to
their order, the poor-rates placed in lis hands
tor collection, or any part thereof, at the
times and in the manner prescribed by law, it
shall be lawful FOR the said oyerscers, or their
successors, by motion, on ten days previous
notice, IN the inferior or superior court of
law for the county, TO receiver from such She
riff and bis securities, or any of them, OF any
of their hers, executors or admins traitors,
whatever sum or sums of money may be due
aud in arrear from the said sheriff, on account
of the said poor-ra, es, together with interest
thereon from the time when due, until paid,
and costs; and it moreover shall be lawful to
recover from such sheriff, his heirs, execu-
tors or administrators for his default, ola ma
ges on the principal sum due, not ex-
ceeding the rate of fifteen per centum per
annum, in addilIon to the interest afore-
said. to be computed during the same time.
In like manner, IF the sheriff charged with
the collection Of the county levy shall fail
TO pay the same, or any par thereof to any
person or persons entitled by law TO de-
|
on ten days previous notice in either OF the
courts aforesaid, may recover from him and
his securities, or any of them, or the heirs,
executors or administrators of any of them,
the sum due, with interest thereon from
+ the time when the same was lawfully de-
manded, till paid, and costs, and may reco-
, yer from the sheriff or his representatives
: aforesaid, damages for his default not OK
ceeding the rate of fifteen per centun per
! annum and if any sheriff shall fail to rem
der to the county court fair and just &c.
count Of the levy OF which he is charg ed
with the collection whenever he shall be
thereunto reasonably required, after t!ie
: first day Of November, succeeding the time
2 when the said levy shall be laid, such she
Y riff shall be liable TO q fine not exceedD,
two hundred dollars for such offence, to BIZ
: recovered by notion OH ten days prcviou!
: tice in the inferior or superior court o
law for the county; and shall moreover BIZ
= compelled by the couHty court By process
= of contempt to yender such account. EC
:. person hereafter appointed sheriff shall b'
. CAPABLE to discharge any of the duties of hi
~ Office until he shall have executed all tn
b official bonds required Ut him by law; and
any prison knowingly and wiiiuily ofient
herein by executing any duty Of n sberi!
without having executed the bonds aforesaid
~ he shall forfei and pay 10 the Commonweait
'e tor the use of the literary fund, iine OF on
,g thousand dollars. The clerks of the secers