Chap. 476.—An ACT to amend section 2, chapter 171, Code of 1873,
and the acts amendatory thereof, in regard to commissioners of

courts. 4
Approved March 6, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, 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 ap-
proved December twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and seventy-
seven, as amended by an act approved January fourteen, eight-
eefi hundred and seventy-nine, 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 re-
movable at pleasure. There shall not be more than four such
commissioners in office at 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 the cir-
cuit courts of the counties of Augusta, Pittsylvania, Loudon,
Rockingham, Louisa and Chesterfield, 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.