Chap. 126.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 396 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to the custody, disposal and sale of published reports of the
decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals. [H 196]

Approved March 3, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That section three hundred ninety-six of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 396. Director to have charge of Supreme Court reports and
furnish copies to judges and others.—He shall be charged with the cus-
tody, disposal and sale of the published reports of the decisions of the
Supreme Court of Appeals. One copy of each volume of the reports
hereafter published shall be furnished to each of the following for the
use of those to whom furnished and their successors in office; the clerk
of the Supreme Court of Appeals and the reporter of the Supreme Court
of Appeals, the judges of each court of record of this State and each civil
and trial justice, the Division of Statutory Research and Drafting, the
Attorney General, the Industrial Commission, the State Corporation
Commission, the clerk of each of the district courts of the United States
held in this State for the use of the courts and the members of the bar
practicing therein, two copies of each volume of the reports hereafter
published shall be furnished to each of the justices of the Supreme Court
of Appeals, for the use of those to whom furnished and their successors
in office. Eight copies of each volume of the reports hereafter published
shall be furnished to each university and college in the State in which a
law school is established ; twelve copies shall be placed in the law library
at Richmond and two copies each shall be placed in each of the other
law libraries of the Supreme Court of Appeals.

The Director of the Division of Purchase and Printing shall place in
the Law Library at Richmond such additional copies of all of the decisions
of the Supreme Court of Appeals as are available, so as to make up
twelve complete sets of the Virginia Reports for the justices’ private of-
fices, conference rooms and the Law Library.