CHAP. 703.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the
code of Virginia in relation to exemption from jury duty.

Approved March 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section thirty-one hundred and forty of the code of
Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§ 3140. Who are exempt.—The governor and lieutenant-
governor of the state, practising attorneys, licensed practi-
sing physicians, registered pharmacists, officers of any court,
all telegraph operators actually employed as such, all pi-
lots licensed under the laws of the United States or of this
state, members of the fire department of a city or town,
and the officers and members of any fire company therein,
and all officers and persons who have heretofore or may
hereafter serve as members of any such fire department or
company for five years; the vice-president of the United
States, the members of both houses of congress and their
respective officers, all custom-house officers with their
lerks, all postmasters, post-officers, post-riders and stage-
rivers, and all other persons employed in the care and
onveyance of the mail of the United States; all mariners
vetually employed in the service of any citizen or mer-
-hant within the United States, the secretary of the com-
non wealth, the attorney-general, treasurer, the two audi-
ore, register of land office, railroad commissioner, com-
nissioner of agriculture and superintendent of public in-
itruction and their respective clerks, the door-keeper of
she executive, the clerks of both houses of the gen-
sral assembly, the judge of any court, all inspectors
oy samplers of tobacco, all professors, tutors and pupils
»9f public seminaries, all ministers of the gospel li-
censed to preach according to the rules of their sect,
Keepers of the county and corporation jails, super-
intendents and servants of the public hospitals and
lunatic asylums; superintendent of the penitentiary, his
assistants and the persons composing the guard, the
officers of the several banks established by law, the police
in cities and towns, the tipstaff and crier of the court of
appeals, during its sitting; all millers necessarily and
personally employed in any grist mill; all ferrymen, in
like manner, employed at any ferry established by law;
the six lock-keepers of the Dismal Swamp canal com-
pany; all toll-gatherers on any canal or turnpike com-
pany in this state, and non-commissioned officers and
members of volunteer companies, shall be exempt from
serving on juries in civil and criminal cases; and the
citizens of Tangier sexes, Chincoteague islands, in the
county of Accomac, and Hogg and Cobb’s islands, in the
county of Northampton, shall be exempt from jury ser-
vice, except service on grand juries; but to entitle the
officers and members of a fire department or company or
of a volunteer company to this exemption, the captain or
chief officer of such department or company, shal) an-
nually on the first day of May of each year, furnish to
the clerk of the county or corporation court of the county
or corporation wherein such department or company is, @
list containing the name of each officer and member of
his department or company, and where there are contrib-
uting members to his department or company, the name
of each contributing member shall be likewise furnished.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.