Chap. 123.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections § and 10 of Chap-
. ter 162 of the Code of 1860, as Amended by the Act of February 3rd,
1871, in Relation to Juries in Civil Causes.

Approved February 28, 1872

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
ections eight and ten of chapter one hundred and sixty-two
f the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and
ixty), as amended by the act of February third, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-one, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

“8 8. The clerk of every county or corporation court shall,
at least ten days before any term of a court at which a jury
may be wanted, to be designated by the judge thereof, issue
a writ of venire facias for sixteen jurors, and shall therein re-
quire the attendance of the jurors on the first day of the court,
or at such other day thereof as the said court shall order; but
whenever, in the opinion of the circuit, county or corporation
court of any county or corporation, a greater number of jurors
than sixteen is necessary for the dispatch of the business of
said court, such opinion shall be entered of record, together
with the number of jurors deemed necessary by said court;
and if it be the circuit court, it shall be the duty of the clerk
of the circuit court to notify the clerk of the county or corpo-
ration court of such county. in writing, at least twenty days
before the jurors are required to attend. of the number of
jurors so ordered, and the time and place at which they are to
attend.

“$10. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county or
corporation court, on a day not less than seven nor more than
ten days before the day on which the jurors are required, in
the presence of the judge, if practicable, if not, of the com-
monwealth’s attorney, or one of the commissioners in chancery
of the circuit court of the county or corporation, to cause the
proper number of jurors to be drawn from the box, and forth-
with deliver the writ of venire facias already issued, in pursu-
ance of the eighth section, to the proper officer of the county
or corporation, requiring him to summon the persons thus
drawn, whose names shall be stated in the wnt, together with
the term and the court at which they are required to attend.
And it shall be the duty of the officer, at least three days
before the time when the jurors are required to attend, to sum-
mon each person who is drawn to attend the sitting of the
court at the time and place mentioned in the writ, and make a

-due return thereof at the opening of the court in which the
attendance of the jurors is required.

t 2. This act shall be in force from and after the first day o!
April, eighteen hundred and seventy two.