Chap. 298.—An ACT to amend and reenact section 246 of the Code of Vir-
ginia in relation to the custody, disposal and sale of published reports
of the decisions of the supreme court of appeals. (S. B. 187.)

Approved March 25, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section two hundred and forty-six of the Code of Virginia of nine-
teen hundred and four, in relation to the custody, disposal and sale
of the published reports of the decisions of the supreme court of
appeals by the secretary of the Commonwealth, be amended and
re-enacted, to read as follows:

Sec. 246. He shall be charged with the custody, disposal and
sale of the published reports of the decisions of the supreme court
of appeals; shall make exchanges of the same for the publications
of other States and counties, and place the law books required by
such exchange in the State law library. One copy of each volume
of said reports hereafter published shall be furnished to each of
the following persons, namely:.to the judges and the reporter of
the supreme court of appeals, to the judges of the circuit and cor-
poration courts, including the judges of the chancery court and law
and equity court of the city of Richmond and the judge of the court
of law and chancery of the city of Norfolk, to the civil justice of
the city of Richmond, to the civil justice of the city of Norfolk, to
the attorney general (to be kept in his office), to the clerk of each
of the circuit courts of the United States held in this State for the
use of said courts and the members of the bar practicing therein.
Fight copies of each volume of said reports hereafter published
shall be furnished to each university and college in the State in
which a law school is established.

The secretary of the Commonwealth shall place in the law
library at Richmond the following additional volumes of such de-
cisions; two copies of volumes ninety-one Virginia to ninety-seven
Virginia, both inclusive; one copy of volumes ninety-eight Virginia
to one hundred and five Virginia, both inclusive; and three copies
of volumes one hundred and six Virginia to one hundred and four-
teen Virginia, both inclusive. He shall also place in said library
five copies of each of said reports which may be published subse-
quent to volume one hundred and fourteen.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.