Chap. 140.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tions 826, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 838, 840, 841, 846, 847, 849, and 850, and
to repeal section 839 of the ‘Code of Virginia,” approv ed December 31, 1903.

Approved March 14, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and thirty two of the Code of Virginia, as amended by
an act approved December thirty-one, ninetcen hundred and three, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 832. Board to sit with open doors; sheriff to attend; his pay; ma-
jority to decide questions; how in cas shall sit with open
doors, and all persons conducting themselves in an orderly manner may
attend its meetings

It may require the sheriff of the county, or at his option, one of his
deputies, to attend its mectings and preserve order, or discharge such
other duties as may be necessary to the proper dispatch of the business

before it; and such officer for his services shall be entitled to compensa-
tion, to be ascertained by the board and paid out of the county levy, not
exceeding two dollars per day or twelve dollars per annum.

All questions submitted to the board for decision under the proceed-
ings of this chapter, or any law of the State, shall be determined by a
viva voce vote of a majority of the supervisors present; but in any case
in which there shall be a tie vote of the board upon any question when
all the members are not present, the question shall be passed by till the
first meeting at which all the members are present, when it shall again
be voted upon; in any case in which there shall be a tie vote on any ques-
tion, all the members of the board being present, the person to be de-
signated as hereinafter provided, shall give the casting vote, and thereby
decide the question.

The circuit court of each county, or judge thereof in vacation, shall,
as soon as may be, after the passage of this act, by order entered in the
common law order book of the court, designate one of the commission-
ers in chancery of such court, whose duty shall be to cast the deciding
vote in case of tie, as hereinbefore set forth. The appointment may be
changed, from time to time, as the court or judge thereof in vacation
may deem proper.