Chap. 97.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by act of assembly approved February 4, 1890,
and by an act approved February 24, 1890, and by an act approved Feb-
ruary 24, 1892, and by an act approved January 29, 1894, and by an act
approved February 27, 1894, and by an act approved February 12, 1898, and
by an act approved February 15, 1901, and by an act approved March 15,
T904, in relation to appointment of commissioners in chancery.

Approved February 29, 1908. . ‘

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three thousand three hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act of the assembly approved February
fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by an act approved February
twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by an act approved
February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and by an
act approved January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
and by an act approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eighth, and by an act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and one, and by an act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
four, in relation to appointment of commissioners in chancery, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3319. Each circuit and each corporation court having chancery
jurisdiction, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall, from time to time,
appoint commissioners in chancery, who shall be removable at pleasure.
There shall not be more than four such commissioners in office at the
same time for the same court, except that the chancery court of the city
of Richmond may have ten; law and equity court of the city of Rich-
mond, and the circuit court of the county of Norfolk, eight; the circuit
court of the city of Norfolk, eight; the corporation court of the city
of Portsmouth, six; and Newport News, six; the corporation court of
the city of Manchester, seven; the corporation court of the city of
Roanoke, six; and the corporation courts and the circuit courts of the
counties of Augusta, Alleghany, Buchanan, Dickenson, Pittsylvania.
Buckingham, Loudoun, Rockbridge, Louisa, Rockingham, Greenville,
Southampton, Spottsylvania, Clarke, Caroline, Rappahannock, Carroll,
and the city of Petersburg may each have five in office at the same time,
and the county of Chesterfield, seven, and the counties of Amherst,
Botetourt, Henrico, Russell, Shenandoah, Frederick, Lee, Prince William,
Fairfax and Grayson may have six each. The additional commissioner
herein appointed provided for Frederick and Dickenson counties, shall,
if practicable, be a stenographer, and the number designated for said
two counties of Frederick and Dickenson shall be exclusive of the ex-
aminer of records.

There being an emergency in consequence of the pendency of a chan-
cery suit in Fairfax county, depending upon the passage of this bill,
this act shall take effect from its passage.