Chap. 49.—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
service.

Approved February 25, 1910.

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, to-wit:

The governor and lieutenant-governor of the State, practicing attor-
neys, licensed practicing physicians, registered practicing pharmacists,
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 exceeding one hun-
dred members in any one company; the president and 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,
postofficers, postriders and stage-drivers, and all other persons em-
ployed 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 attor-
ney-general, the treasurer, the two auditors, register of the land office,
members, officers and clerks of the State corporation commission, the
commissioner of agriculture and superintendent of public instruction
and their respective clerks, the doorkeeper of the executive, the clerks of
both houses of the general assembly, the judge of any court, all profes-
sors, tutors, and pupils of public seminaries, while such public semi-
naries 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 servants of the public hospitals
and Iunatic 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 cities and towns, the tip-
staff and crier of the court of appeals during its sittings, all millers
actually employed in the mechanical operation of any grist mill, all
ferrymen necessary and personally employed in or at any ferry estab-
jished by law, the six lock keepers of the Dismal Swamp Canal Com-
pany, and the active non-commissioned officers and the active members
of the Virginia volunteers, together with the contributing members of
said volunteer companies, who have contributed not less than twenty-
five dollars per annum, shall be exempt from serving on juries in civil
and criminal cases; and the citizens of Tangier, Syxas and Chinco-
teague 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 mem-
bers of said volunteer companies, or the active officers and members of
a fire department, not exceeding one hundred members for 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 cor-
poration 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 or department and, where there are contributing mem-
bers 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.