Chap. 276.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 306 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [H B 396)
Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three hundred and six of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 306. Duties of clerk of house of delegates—In addition to
such duties as may be prescribed by the rules of the house the clerk
of the house of delegates shall, at the commencement of each session
thereof, make out and report to the general assembly a condensed
abstract from the reports made to him by the clerks of courts and
cause the same to be published in the journal of the house. He shall
at the end of each session of the general assembly, prepare a well-
arranged index to the journal of the house and the documents printed
during the session by order of the house. He shall cause to be
printed with the acts and joint resolutions of each session of the
general assembly tables showing the time for the commencement of
the regular terms of the supreme court of appeals and of each cir-
cuit, corporation and city court; the places at which separate polls
have been established in each county, and of the wards in the several
cities; the names of the several magisterial districts in each county,
and the names or numbers of the several wards in each city; a list
of the commissioners in other States, appointed by the governor, and
a full account of the State indebtedness and an accurate statement
of the receipts and expenditures of the public money of Virginia, to-
gether with a carefully prepared and well-arranged index of the acts
and joint resolutions.

He shall cause to be published in one daily newspaper published
in the city of Richmond, for the time prescribed by the Constitution,
all proposed amendments to the Constitution. He shall also have
printed a sufficient number of all such proposed amendments to enable
him to forward to the clerk of every circuit and corporation court
in this State one thousand copies of the same for distribution by said
clerk, which forwarding shall be done not later than two weeks before
the commencement of the newspaper publication, as aforesaid. The
clerk of the house of delegates shall make report of the action taken
by him under this paragraph to the next succeeding general assembly,
certifying the cost of such publication, printing and forwarding, to
the auditor of public accounts for payment.