Chap. 464.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5988 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to jury lists in counties and cities so as to limit the num-
ber of jurors to be selected for the courts in the city of Lynchburg. [S 316]

Approved April 2, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section fifty-nine hundred eighty-eight of the Code of
Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 5988. List of jurors to be prepared by the jury commis-
sioners.—The 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 eighty-four and fifty-
nine hundred 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 in the city of Lynchburg the number for the circuit
court shall not exceed five hundred and the number for the corporation
court shall not exceed one thousand, and for each of the cities of Danville,
Newport 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 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 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.