CHAP. 434.—An ACT to amend and re- -enact section 5985 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [H B 79}
Approved March 27, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-nine hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted as follows:

Section 5985. Who are exempt from jury service.—The governor
and lieutenant governor of the State, the members of the gencral
assembly while actually in session, practicing attorneys, licensed prac-
ticing physicians, registered practicing pharmacists, officers of any
court, telegraph and telephone operators actually employed as such,
all pilots licenses 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 native members of any fire company therein, not
exceeding one hundred 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 customhouse officers, with
their clerks ; all postmasters, postoffices, postriders 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 and superintendent of public instruction, and their respec-
tive clerks, the doorkeeper of the executive, the clerk 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, undertakers who pay license tax
as such, sheriffs, constables, all persons while actually engaged in
harvesting or securing grain or hay or in cutting or securing tobacco,
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 cities and towns, the tipstaff and crier of the court of
appeals during its sittings, all millers actually employed in the me-
chanical operation of any grist mill, all ferrymen necessary and
personally employed in or at any ferry established by law, the six
lock keepers of the Dismal Swamp canal company, all dentists in actual
practice, and the active non-commissioned officers and the active mem-
bers of the Virginia volunteers shall be exempt from serving on
juries in civil and criminal cases; and contributing members of said
volunteer companies who have contributed not less than twenty-five
dollars per annum, and the citizens of Tangier, Saxes and Chinco-
teague islands, in the county of Accomac, and Broadwater and Cobb’s
island, 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 mem-
bers 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 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 or 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.