Chap. 249.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4853, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia, relating to regular and special grand juries, to make certain changes
as to eligibility of grand jurors. [S 166}

Approved March 16, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

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

Section 4853. A grand jury, regular and special, shall consist of
not less than five nor more than seven 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 one year and of the county or corporation in which
the court is to be held six months, and in other respects a qualified
juror, and, when the grand juror is for a circuit court of a county, not an
inhabitant of a city, except in those cases when the circuit court of the
county has jurisdiction in the city, in which case the city shall be con-
sidered as a magisterial district, or the equivalent of a magisterial dis-
trict, of the county for the purpose of the jury lists.