Chap. 317.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3140 of the code of Vir-
ginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 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.

Approved February 20, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-one hundred and forty of the code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and re-enacted by an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact section thirty-one hundred and
forty of the code of Virginia, in relation to exemption from jury
service, approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3140. Who are exempt.—The governor and lieutenant-governor
of the state; practicing attorneys, licensed practicing physicians;
registered pharmacist, where at any pharmacy only one such phar-
macist is employed; officers of any court; telegraph operators
actually employed as such; all pilots licensed under the laws of the
United States or of this state; active members of the fire depart-
ment of a city or town and the active officers and active members oi
any fire company therein, not exceeding one hundred members for
any one company; the vice-president of the United States; the
members of both houses of congress and their respective officers,
but only while such houses of congress are actually in session; all
custom-house officers, with their clerks; all postmasters, post-officers,
post-riders and stage-drivers, and all other persons employed in the
care and conveyance of the mails of the United States; al] mariners
actually employed in the service of any citizen or merchant within
the United States; the secretary of the commonwealth, the attorney-
general, treasurer, the two auditors, register of the land office, rail-
road commissioner, commissioner of agriculture and superintendent
of public instruction and their respective clerks; the doorkeeper of
the executive, the clerks of both houses of the general assembly ;
the judge of any court; all professors, tutors and pupils of public
seminaries, while such public seminaries are actually in session; all
ministers of the gospel licensed to preach according to the rules of
their sect; keepers of the county and corporation jails; superin-
tendents and servants of the public hospitals and lunatic asylums;
superintendent of the penitentiary, his assistants and the persons
composing the guard; one cashier and two tellers 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
actually employed in the mechanical operation of any grist mill;
all ferrymen necessarily and personally employed in or at any ferry
established by law; the six lock-keepers of the Dismal Swamp canal
company; and the active non-commissioned officers and the active
members of the Virginia volunteers, together with the contributing
members of said volunteer companies, shall be exempt from serving
on juries in civil and crimina] cases; and the citizens of Tangier,
Syxas and Chincoteague islands, in the county of Accomac, and
Hogg’s and Cobb’s islands, in the county of Northampton, shall be
exempt from jury service, except service on grand juries. But to
entitle the active officers and active members of the Virginia
volunteers, as well as the contributing members of said volunteer
companies, or the active officers and active members of a fire de-
partment, not exceeding one hundred members for any one com-
pany, to this exemption, the captain or chief officer of any com-
pany of the Virginia volunteers, or of such department, shall an-
nually, on the first day of May, furnish to the clerk of the county
or corporation court of the county or corporation wherein such com-
pany or department is, a list containing the name of each active
officer and active member of his company of Virginia volunteers, or
the name of each active officer and active member of his department,
and, where there are contributing members to his company, the name
of each contributing member shall be likewise furnished.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.