Chap. 408.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4853 of the Code in relation
to grand juries. {S B 402]

Approved March 20, 1920.

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

Sec. 4853. A regular grand jury shall consist of not less than eleven
nor more than sixteen persons, and a special grand jury of not less
than six nor more than nine persons. Each grand juror shall be a
citizen of this State, twenty-one years of age, and shall have been a
resident of this State two years, and of the county or corporation in
which the court is to be held one year, and in other respects a qualified
juror, and not a constable, or’ overseer of a road, and, when the
grand juror is for a circuit court of a county, not an inhabitant of a
city, except in those cases where the circuit court of the county has
jurisdiction in the city, in which case the city shall be considered
as a magisterial district, or the equivalent of a magisterial district,
of the county for the purpose of the jury lists.

2. The proper administration of judicial proceedings being in-
volved, an emergency exists, and this act shall take effect from its
passage.

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