Chap. 50.—An ACT to ratify and confirm the appointment of a certain commis-
sioner for the circuit court of Fairfax county, Virginia, and to ratify and
validate all depositions and other acts or transactions taken, done or per-
formed by, or before, such commissioner.

Approved February 20, 1908.

Whereas, under section thirty-three hundred and nineteen of the Code
of Virginia, the circuit court for the county of Fairfax, Virginia, shall
not have more than four commissioners in office at the same time; and

Whereas, two of said commissioners are absent from said county as
members of the general assembly of Virginia; and

Whereas, the other two commissioners are engaged as counsel in a
certain suit for divorce, pending in said court; and

Whereas, at the request of said counsel the circuit court for said county,
at its November term, nineteen hundred and seven, appointed R. W.
Stump, of said county, as an additional commissioner for said court, for
the purpose of taking depositions before him in said suit, it being the
intention of the parties concerned to secure the passage of a bill ratify-
ing and confirming the said appointment of the said R. W. Stump, as
commissioner, as aforesaid, and ratifying and validating all depositions
taken by or before him, as such commissioner, and other acts of trans-
actions done or performed by him as such: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
appointment of the said R. W. Stump, and all depositions and other
acts or transactions taken, done, or performed by or before him as com-
missioner, as aforesaid, be, and the same are hereby, ratified, confirmed,
and declared to be valid.

2. An emergency existing by reason of the circumstances recited, this
act shall take effect from its passage.