Chap. 390.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to who are exempt from jury service.

Approved March 14, 1908.

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 and
dentists, registered pharmacists, where at any pharmacy only one such
pharmacist is employed, officers of any court, telegraph operators ac-
tually 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 exceeding one hundred members in any one
company, the vice-president of the United States, the members of both
houses of congress and their respective 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, officers, and clerks of the State
corporation commission, the commissioner of agriculture, the superin-
tendent of public instruction, and their respective clerks, the door-
keeper of the executive, the clerks of both houses of the general assembly,
the judge of any court, all professors, tutors, and pupils of public
seminaries, 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, superintendents and ser-
vants of the public hospitals and lunatic asylums, superintendent of the
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 by 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 exempt from all jury service, 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 exempt 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 officers
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 the corporation court of the corporation wherein such
company 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 an officer or member having joined said Virginia volun-
teers since said list was delivered to the clerk, a certificate of member-
ship in volunteer company, signed by said chief officer, shall also exempt
such member from jury service.