Chap. 75.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5988 of the Code of Virginia, a:
heretofore amended, relating to jury lists in counties and cities, so as to provide
that in the cities of Danville and Portsmouth the lists of jurors shall not contair
more than five and six hundred names, respectively, and so as to provide tha’
the inhabitants of a city, partly or wholly within a county, shall be considered
magisterial district thereof only when there is concurrent jurisdiction, in th
respective courts, of both civil and criminal cases. [S B 49

Approved February 26, 1942
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sectior

fifty-nine hundred and eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as hereto
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted as follows:
Section 5988. List of Jurors to Be Prepared by the Jury Commis-
sioners.—Such commissioners shall, as soon as may be after their ap-
pointment, prepare lists of such of the inhabitants of their respective
counties or cities as are well qualified to serve as jurors and are not
excluded or exempt by sections fifty-nine hundred and eighty-four and
fifty-nine hundred and eighty-five of the Code. The whole number of
persons selected in any county or city shall not be less than one hundred
nor more than three hundred, except that for the city of Richmond and
the city of Norfolk the number shall not exceed one thousand for each
court, and for the corporation court for the city of Roanoke and for the
Court of Hustings of the City of Portsmouth the number shall not
exceed six hundred each and for each of the cities of Danville, N ewport
News and Petersburg the number shall not exceed five hundred. The
same percentage of population shall be taken from each magisterial
district or ward. The inhabitants of a city, however, which is situated
in whole or in part within the bounds of a county shall not be placed
on the lists for such county; except in those cases where the circuit
court of the county and the corporation court of the city have concurrent
jurisdiction of both civil and criminal cases arising within the territorial
limits of such county or city in which cases 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 list. |