Chap. 22.—An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the
city of Newport News.

Approved February 12, 1910.

Whereas, it is proposed to form a new judicial circuit, to be known as
the thirty-first circuit, to be composed of the counties of Accomac and
Northampton, which are now a part of the eleventh judicial circuit; and,

Whereas, the said counties of Accomac and Northampton had, by the
last United States census, a population of forty-six thousand three hun-
dred and forty, but the remainder of said eleventh circuit, to-wit, Eliza-
beth City county and city of Newport News, did not have by said census
forty thousand population, the county of Elizabeth City having a popu-
lation of nineteen thousand four hundred and sixty and the city of New-
port News a population of nineteen thousand six hundred and thirty-five,
but it is believed that the said city of Newport News now has sufficient
population to make the said county and city have at least forty thousand
population ; therefore, in order to ascertain the population of said city,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That as soon as
practicable after the passage of this act, the judge of the eleventh judicial
circuit shall, by an order under his hand, to be entered in the proper order
book of the circuit court of Newport News, appoint not exceeding
enumerators for said city, and he may, in his discretion, designate the
bounds of the district of each enumerator.

2. The said enumerators shall, as soon as possible after their appoint-
ment, take the oath of office prescribed by law and enter upon tle dis-
charge of their duties, and shall enumerate all the inhabitants of their re-
spective districts and return duplicate lists thereof to the office of the
clerk of the circuit court of said city, to which lists shall be attached the
oath of the respective enumerator to the effect that said lists embraces the
names of all the inhabitants of his district, and none others, as he verily
believes, which oath shall also set forth the number of days the said enum-
erator shall have been employed in taking said list.

3. When all the said lists shall have been received by said clerk he
shall enumerate the same and file in his office a copy of said list, and shall
forthwith certify and forward the other copy thereof to the judge of said
court, who, when said list has been received by him, shall transmit the
same to the secretary of the Commonwealth.

4, The said enumerators shall be allowed the sum of two cents per
name and the clerk shall be allowed the sum of twenty ($20.00) dollars
for the work performed by him under this act, and the said judge shall

draw his warrant upon the auditor of public accounts in favor of each of
said enumerators and said clerk for said respective sum, but the total
amount shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, which shall be
paid by the counties of Accomac and Northampton.

5. It being desirable that the enumeration herein provided for shall
be obtained as speedily as practicable, an emergency exists, and this act
shall be in force from its passage.