Chap. 331.—An ACT to adopt and provide for the publication and
distribution of the Code of Virginia; for the preparation and pub-
lication of the explanatory notes of the revisors of the Code, and
for furnishing the revisors with an ofhee and stationery.

Approved May 21, 1Ss7,

Be it enacted by the general assembly. as follows:

1. The act entitled an act to revise, arrange and consoli-
date into a Code, the general statutes of the commonwealth,
approved day of May, eighteen bundred and eighty-
seven, is hereby adopted and declared to be the Code of Vir-
ginia, to take effect and be in force as therein provided. The
gaid act shall not be published with the other acts of the
present session of the general assembly, but shall be published
in a separate volume, printed on good paper, in such type as
may be prescribed by the superintendents of the publication,
well bound in calf, and lettered on the back “The Code of
Virginia.” Besides the said act, the volume shall contain the
Declaration of Independence, the constitution of the United
States, and the amendments thereto; the constitution of Vir-
gipia as amended, and a suitable index.

~2. The publication shall be under the immediate superin-
tendence of the revisors of the Code, to-wit: Edward C.,
Burks, Waller R. Staples, and John W. Riely, or, on their
failure to act, under the superintendence of such other per-
gon or persons as the governor may appoint. They shall
prefix to each chapter a table, stating briefly the subject of
each scction therein, insert or omit such captions to sections,
make such references and notes as may scem to them fit,
prepare the index, and examine the proot sheets.

3. The secretary of the commonwealth shall secure the
copyright of the said volume for the benefit of the common-
wealth.

4. The superintendent of public printing, in causing the
printing, binding, and lettering aforesaid, and any other
work attending the publication to be done, shall conform to
the requirements of the law in regard to the public printing.
There shall be eight thousand copies of the said volume,
which shall be distributed by the said superintendent as fol-
lows: One copy to each member of tho present general as-
gembly, and to the clerk of each house; and one copy to
each of the following public officers and institutions: The
governor, lieutenant-governor, attorney-general, secretary of
the commonwealth, auditor cf public accounts, second audi-

tor, treasurer, register of the land office, adjutant-general.
superintendent of public instruction, superintendent of pub-
lic printing. railroad commissioner, commissioner of agricul-
ture, superintendent of the penitentiar ; to each judge of the
several courts of this State; to each justice of the peace,
mayor and clerk of any court of this State; to each attorney
for the commonwealth, sheriff, sergeant, and county or city
treasurer; to each county surveyor; to each judge and clerk
of any court in this State, held under the laws of the United
States, and to each attorney and marshal holding office in
this State, under the laws of the United States; to the Uni-
versity of Virginia. the Washington and Lee University, the
Virginia Military Institute, each college within the State, the
Institution for the Deat and Dumb and the Blind, and to each
lunatic asylum; five copies to the general librarian, and five
copies for the State law library; ten copies to the clerk of
the senate for the use of the senate, and fifteen copies to the
clerk of the house of delegates for the use of that house;
and six copics to each of the revisors of the Code. He shall
deliver the remaining copies to the secretary of the com-
monwealth, to,be appropriated as follows: One copy to the
governor of -each of the otber States and territories for the
use of the respective States and territories; three copies to
the librarian of congress, one copy whereof shall be for the
library, and one for e: each of the two houscs of congress; three
copies to the secretary of State of the United States, whereof
one shall be for his oftice, one for the president, and one for
the attorney-general of the United States, and the remaining
copies shall constitute a part of the library fund.

5. The copies distributed under the preceding section to
the several public officers (except members of the general
assembly) and the institutions of the State, shall remain tbe
property of the State, and cach of said public officers: shall
deliver the copy held by him to his successor in office. The
superintendent of public printing, before distributing the
copies to such officers and institutions, shall cause to he dis-
tinctly and durably stamped on the ‘outside of each lid of
every Copy so distributed, the coat of arms of Virginia, and
the following words, in large letters, encircling the same:
“Property of the State. to be delivered to your successor in
office.”

6. ‘The copies published as hereinbefore required, shall be

received as evidence for any purpose for which the original
act could be received, and with as much effect.
7. The revisors of the Code shall, as soon as practicable
after the publication of the Code hereinbefore provided tor,
prepare and deliver to the supermtendent of publie printing
for publication, in conformity with the requirements of the law
in regard to public printing, suc ‘+h notes as they may deem
useful in explanation of the changes made in the law by the
Code. The notes shall be printed and bound in a volume as
the Acts of the General Assembly are required by law to be
printed and bound, and the said revisors shall superintend
ee al ation thereof.
8. Three thousand copics of the said volume shall be pub-
lished, which shall be distributed as follows by the superin-
tendent of public printing: One copy to each member of the
present gencral assembly; one copy to each judge of the
commonwealth; one copy to the attorney-gencral, and one
copy to each attorney for the commonwealth, which said
copies shall remain the property of the commonwealth, and
to be turned over to their successors in office by said officers
respectively, except the members of the general assembly.
The remaining copies shall be delivered to the secre tary of
the commonwe ealth, and shall constitute a part of the library
fund.

9. The revister of the land office shall continue to provide
for the revisors a suitable office in the city of Richmond until
they have discharged the duties hereinbefore required of
them, and the auditor of public accounts shall issue warrants
on the treasury, upon the requisition of the revisors. for the
costs of stationery required by them.

10. This act shall be in force from its passage.