Chap. 398.—An ACT to amend and reenact 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 83]

Approved April 1, 1948

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 reenacted 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
custody, disposal and sale of the published reports of the decisions of the
Supreme Court of Appeals. One copy of each volume of the reports here-
after 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 the clerk
of such court and each civil and trial justice, police justice, the Clerk
of the House of Delegates, the Clerk of the Senate, the Division of
Statutory Research and Drafting, the Attorney General, the Industrial
Commission, the State Corporation Commission, Secretary of the
Virginia State Bar, 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 approved by the American Bar As-
sociation is established ; fifteen copies shall be placed in the law library at
Richmond, and two copies shall be placed in the law library at Staunton.

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