Chap. 418.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5986 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of jury eae ae TT

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Approved March 21, 1924.

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

Section 5986. Appointment of jury commissioners.—The judge of
the circuit court of each county and city, and the judge of every city
court where juries are empaneled, shall, prior to the fifteenth day of
February in each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, appoint for
the next ensuing year ending on the following fifteenth day of February
not less than two nor more than five persons as Jury commissioners, who
shall be competent to serve as jurors under the provisions of this chap-
ter, and shall be citizens of intelligence, morality, and integrity. No
practicing attorney at law, however, skall hereafter be appointed as
@ Jury commissioner. Such appointment shall be certified by the judge
to the clerk of the court for which the appointment is made, who shall
enter the same on the common law order book of such court. Every
jury commissioner shall have a fee of five dollars a day for the time
actually engaged in making out the list of jurors mentioned in section
fifty-nine hundred and eighty-eight, to be paid out of the treasury of the
city or county for which he is appointed on the certificate of the judge
making the appointment, or in case of his death, removal, or inability to
act, on a certificate of his successor in office or of the judge designated to
hold his courts. No jury commissioner shall be eligible to reappoint-
ment for at least two years after the expiration of the year for which he
was appointed. For the purpose of this section, the two parts of the
hustings court of the city of Richmond shall be deemed to be separate
courts.