Chap. 61.—An ACT to Amend Sections one, three, four, five, nine and
eleven of an Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact Chapter 206
of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) as to Grand Juries.

Approved February 2, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha‘
sections one, three, four, five, nine, and eleven, of an act en.
titled “an act to amend and re-enact chapter two hundred anc
six of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred anc
sixty), as to grand juries,” approved November the fifth, eich
teen hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as tc
read as follows:
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“<1. There shall be a grand jury at two of the terms in
¥ each year, of the county and corporation courts, to be desig-
nated by the judges of such courts, and it shall be Jawful for
the said courts at any term thereof, or the judges of said
courts in vacation, before such term, whenever they shall deem
it proper to do so, to order a grand jury to be summoned to
consider any offences against the laws.

“s 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of such court, at
least twenty days before each one of the two terms thereof
designated under the first section for the empaneling of a
grand jury, and in other cases forthwith, whenever so ordered
by the judge of his court, to place in the hands of the officer
of such court lists of the grand jurors selected by lot, as pro-
vided in the previous section, made off by townships, accord-
ing to the place of residence of the several grand jurors, and
embracing a sufficient number of such persons to form such
grand jury; and it shall thereupon be the duty of such officer
to summon the persons mentioned in such lists to attend on
the first or such other day of said term as the judge may direct,
to act as grand jurors.

“s 4. For two of the grand juries in each year to be desig-
nated by such courts there shall be summoned twenty-four citi
zens of this state, of the county or corporation in which the
court is to be held, and in other respects qualified jurors, and
not constables, ordinary keepers, overseers of roads, nor own-
ers nor occupiers of water grist mills, and when they are grand
jurors for a county court, not inhabitants of a town having
a corporation court. The court in which a grand jury is to be
empaneled for the two terms as hereinbefore provided may by
direction to its clerk Lmit the number of persons to serve
thereon to not less than sixteen. For grand juries ordered for,
any other term of such courts there shall be summoned ten

citizens of the state, with like qualifications and subject to the

exceptions hereinbefore stated, and the court may by direction
to its clerk limit the number of persons to serve thereon to not
less than six.

“3 5. Any sixteen or more of such persons summoned to the
two regular terms, and any six or more of such persons sum-
moned to any other term, shall be a competent grand jury. If
a sufficient number do not attend, then the court shall cause a
sufficient number of jurors to be returned from the by-standers,
or from the county or corporation at large; and for that pur-
pose may direct a venire facias to any fit person, whose duty it

_sShall be to execute and return the same according to the exi-

gency thereof. All of said jurors shall be summoned from a
list to be furnished the officer by the judge. unless the judge
shall deem it proper to dispense with said list.

“39. At least twelve of the grand jury at the two regular
terms, and at least five of the grand jury at any other term,
must concur in finding or making an indictment or present-
ment. They may make a presentment upon the information of
two or more of their own body, and when a presentment is so
made on the testimony of witnesses called on by the grand
jury or sent to it by the court, the names of the grand Jurors
iving the information, or of the witnesses, shall be written at
the foot of the presentment.

Ҥ 11. If any one or more of the grand jurors be unable, or 4
fail to attend after being sworn, the said officer shall in the {
manner provided in the fifth section, forthwith summon so}
many others as may be necessary to complete the panel; and ‘
if the foreman should not attend, the judge may from the },
panel thus made up supply the vacancy, and when one grand *
ury has been discharged, another may by order of the court ‘
be summoned to attend at the same term, in the manner pre- ,
scribed in the said fifth section.” 8

2. This act shall be in force from and after the first day of ¢
May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

Chap, 62,—An ACT Authorizing the Collection of the Unpaid Taxes of the
County of Orange for the Years 1868 and 1860.

Approved February 2, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the present s
sheriff of the county of Orange be authorized to receive and }
collect all taxes, fee bills and county levies, which were due in |:
the years eighteen hundred and sixty-eight and eighteen hun- ”
dred and sixty-nine, and are still unpaid; and he shall hereby P
possess the same legal right in the collection of the same as "
was possessed by the sheriff at the period hereinbefore men- #
tioned. Said right shall continue twelve months from the pas- ©
sage of this act.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage. C