Chap. 24.—An ACT to amend section 2, chapter 171, Code of 1873,
and the acts amendatory thereof, in regard to commissioners of
courts.

Approved January 14, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the second
section of chapter one hundred and seventy-one, of the Code
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act
approved March twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five, as amended by an act approved January three, eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, as amended by an act approved
December twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. Each court shall, from time to time, appoint commis-
sioners in chancery or for stating accounts, who shall be
removable at pleasure. There shall not be more than four
such commissioners in office af the same time for the same
courts, except that the chancery court of the city of Richmond
may have seven such commissioners in office at the same time;
-and that corporation courts with chancery jurisdiction, and
that the circuit courts of the counties of Augusta, Pittsylvania,
Loudoun, and Rockingham, may have five such commissioners
in office at the same time: provided that the commissioners
appointed by the courts of Henrico county shall reside within
the jurisdiction of said courts.

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