Chap. 23.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by act of assembly approved February
4, 1890, and by an act approved February 24, 1890, and by an act ap-
proved February 24, 1892, and by an act approved January 29, 1894,
and by an act approved February 27, 1894, and by an act approved
February 12, 1898, and by an act approved February 15, 1901, and by an
act approved March 15, 1904, and by an act approved February 29, 1908,
in relation to appointment of commissioners in chancery.

Approved February 14, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand three hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act of the assembly approved February
fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by an act approved February
twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by an act approved
February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and by an act
approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and
by an act approved February the twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, and by an act approved February the fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and one, and by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
four, and by an act approved February the twenty-ninth, nineteen hun-
dred and eight, in relation to appointment of commissioners in chan-
cery, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

83319. Each circuit and each corporation court having chancery
Jurisdiction, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall, from time to time,
appoint commissioners in chancery, who shall be removable at pleasure.
There shall not be more than four such commissioners in office at the
same time for the same court, except that the chancery court of the city
of Richmond and the circuit court of the county of Fairfax may each
have ten; law and equity court of the city of Richmond, and the circuit
court of the county of Norfolk, eight; the circuit court of the city of
Norfolk, eight ; the corporation court of the city of Portsmouth, six; and
Newport News, six; the corporation court of the city of Manchester,
seven ; the corporation court of the city of Roanoke and the circuit court
of the county of Grayson may each have eight; and the corporation
courts and circuit courts of the counties of Augusta, Alleghany, Buch-
anan, Dickenson, Pittsylvania, Loudoun, Rockbridge, Louisa, Rocking-
han, Greenesville, Southampton, Clarke, Rappahannock, Carroll, Page,
Ifalifax, and the city of Petersburg mav each have five in office at the
same time, and the county of Chesterfield seven: tne counties of
Buckingham, Amherst, Botetourt, Henrico, Russell, Shenandoah, Fred-
erick, Lee, Spotsylvania, Caroline, and Prince William may have six
each. The additional commissioner herein appointed, provided for Fred-
erick and Dickenson counties, shall, if practicable, be a stenographer, and
the number designated for said two counties of Frederick and Dickenson
shall be exclusive of the examiner of records.

2. There being an emergency in consequence of the fact that two of
the commissioners in chancery for the circuit court of Fairfax county are
members of the general assembly of Virginia, this act shall take effect
from its passage.