Chap. 54.—An ACT to provide for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the
county of Elizabeth City, or of portions thereof.

Approved February 26, 1910.

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

Whereas, the remainder of said eleventh judicial circuit, to-wit: the
city of Newport News and county of Elizabeth City, did not have by the
last United States census forty thousand population:

Therefore, in order to ascertain whether the said city of Newport
News and county of Elizabeth City have a population of forty thousand,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That as soon
as practicable after the passage of this act the judge of the circuit court
of Elizabeth City county shall, by an order under his hand in term time,
or in the vacation of said court, to be entered in the proper order book of
the said county of Elizabeth City, appoint as many enumerators as he may
deem necessary for the purpose of taking an enumeration of the popula-
tion of the whole of said county of Elizabeth City, or of such portion
thereof as he may deem necessary, in order to ascertain whether the said
county of Elizabeth City, including the towns of Hampton and Phoebus,
has, together with the city of Newport News (as shown by the last United
States census), a population of at least forty thousand; and he may, in
his discretion, designate the bounds of the district of each enumerator.

2. The said enumerators shall, as soon after their appointment as
practicable, having been first duly sworn, proceed to enumerate all the
inhabitants of their respective districts, and make return thereof to the
clerk of Elizabeth City county, entering in said enumeration list the
names of all the inhabitants in their respective districts.

3. When the said lists have been received by the said clerk he shall
enumerate the same and forthwith certify the result of the enumeration to
the said judge, who shall certify the same to the secretary of the Com-
monwealth. : |
4. The said enumerators shall be allowed one cent per name for each
name contained in said list, and the said clerk a fee of twenty-five dollars
for all his services hereunder, to be paid out of the public treasury by war-
rants drawn by the said judge upon the auditor of public accounts in favor
of each of said enumerators and said clerk for the amounts to which
each is respectively entitled; but the expenditure hereunder shall not in
any event exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars.

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