Chap. 95.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury ser-
vice.

Approved March 8, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one hundred and forty of the Code of Virginia, entitled “who are
exempt,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3140. Who are exempt.—The governor and lieutenant-governor of the
State, practicing attorneys, licensed practicing physicians, registered
pharmacists, where at any pharmacy only one such pharmacist is em-
ployed, officers of any court, telegraph operators actually employed as
such, all pilots licensed under the laws of the United States or of this
State, active members of the fire department of a city or town, and the
active officers and active members of any fire company therein, not ex-
ceeding one hundred members in any one company, the vice-president of
the United States, the members of both houses of congress and their re-
spective. officers, but only while such houses of congress are actually in
session, all custom-house officers, with their clerks, all postmasters, post-
officers, post-riders, and stage-drivers, and all other persons employed in
the care and conveyance of the mails of the United States, all mariners
actually employed in the service of any citizen or merchant within the
United States, the secretary of the Commonwealth, the attorney-general,
the treasurer, the two auditors, register of the land office, members, offi-
cers, and clerks of the State corporation commission, the commissioner of
agriculture, and superintendent of public instruction, and their respec-
tive clerks, the doorkeeper of the executive, the clerks of both houses of
the general assembly, the judge of any court, all professors, tutors, and
pupils of public seminarics, while such public seminaries are actually in
session, all ministers of the gospel licensed to preach according to the
rules of their sect, keepers of the county and corporation jails, superin-
tendents and servants of the public hospitals and lunatic asylums, super-
intendent of penitentiary, his assistants, and the persons composing the
guard, one cashier and two tellers of the several banks established by law,
the police in the cities and towns, the tipstaff and crier of the court of
appeals during its sitting, all millers actually employed in the mechanical
operation of any grist mill, all ferrymen necessarily and personally em-
ployed in or at any ferry established hy law, the six lock-keepers of the
Dismal Swamp canal company, and the active members of the Virginia
volunteers, including all officers, commissioned and non-commissioned,
together with the contributing members of said volunteer companies, who
have contributed not less than twenty-five dollars per annum, shall be
xem pt from serving on juries in civil and criminal cases, and the citizens
of ‘Tangier, Syxas and Chincoteague islands, in the county of Accomac,
and Hogg’s and Cobb’s islands, in the county of Northampton, shall be
-xempt from jury service, except service on grand juries. But to entitle
the active officers and active members of the Virginia volunteers, as well
as such contributing members of said volunteer companies, or the active
nficers and members of a fire department, not exceeding one hundred
members of any one company, to this exemption, the captain or chief
officer of any company of the Virginia volunteers, or of such department
shall, annually, on the first day of May, furnish to the clerk of the circuit
court of the county or corporation court of the corporation wherein such
-ompany or department is, a list containing the name of each active
officer and active member of his company of Virginia volunteers, or the
name of each active officer and active member of his department, and,
where there are contributing members to his company, the name of each
‘contributing member who has for the preceding year contributed not less
than twenty-five dollars shall be likewise furnished. And in the event of
in officer or member having joined said Virginia volunteers, since said
jist was delivered to the clerk, a certificate of membership in volunteer
‘ompany, signed by said chief officer, shall also exempt such members
from jury service.