Chap. 5.—An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the
counties of Tazewell, Giles, and Bland.

Approved January 30, 1906.

Whereas it is proposed to form a new judicial circuit, to be known as
the twenty-fifth circuit, to be composed in part of the county of Buchanan,
which is now a part of the twenty-second judicial circuit; and

Whereas the remaining counties of said twenty-second judieial circuit,
to-wit.: the counties of Tazewell, Giles, and Bland, did not have by the
last United States census forty thousand population, but it is believed
the said counties now have at least forty thousand population : therefore, in
order to ascertain the population of said counties,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act the judge of the twenty-second
judicial circuit shall, by an order under his hand, to be entered in the
proper order book of the respective counties of Tazewell, Giles, and Bland,
appoint not exceeding three enumerators for each magisterial district in
each of said counties, and he may, in his discretion, designate the bounds
of the district of each enumerator.

2. The said enumerators shall, as soon as practicable after their ap-
pointment, take the oath of office prescribed by law and enter upon the dis-
charge of their duties, and shall enumerate all the inhabitants of their
respective districts and return duplicate lists thereof to the office of the
clerk of the circuit court of their respective counties, to which lists shall
be attached the oath of the respective enumerators to the effect that said
list embraces the names of al] the inhabitants of his district, and nene
others, as he verily believes, which oath shall also set forth the number of
days the said enumerator shall have been employed in taking said list.

3. When all of said lists shal] have been received by said respective
clerks, they shall each enumerate the same and file in his office one eopy
of said list, and shall forthwith certify and forward the other eopy
thereof to the judge of said court, who, when all of said lists have been
received by him, shall transmit the same to the secretary of the Com-
monwealth.

4. The said enumerators shall be allowed the sum of three dollars
($3.00) per day for each day employed in said work, and the said judge
shall draw his warrant upon the auditor of public accounts in favor of
each of said enumerators for said sum, which shall be paid out ef the
public treasury.

5. It being desirable that the enumeration herein provided for shall
be obtained as speedily as practicable, an emergency existe, and this act
shall be in force from its passage.