CHAP. 315.—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 February 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, 1904, and by an act approved
February 29, 1908, and by an act approved February 14, 1910, in re-
lation to appointment of commissioners in chancery.

Approved March 14th, 1912.

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 twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and
by an act approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, and by an act approved February fifteenth, nineteen
hundred and one, and by an act approved March fifteenth, nine-
teen hundred and four, and by an act approved February twenty-
ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, and by an act approved
February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, 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 and the
circuit court of the county of Fairfax may each have ten; law
and equity court of the city of Richmond, and the circuit court of
the county of Norfolk, nine; the circuit court of the city of
Norfolk, eight; the corporation court of the city of Portsmouth,
eight; and Newport News, six; the corporation court of the city
of Manchester, seven; the corporation court of the city of Roan-
oke and the circuit court of the county of Grayson may each have
eight; and the corporation court and circuit courts of the counties
of Augusta, Alleghany, Buchanan, Dickenson, Pittsylvania,
Loudoun, Rockbridge, Louisa, Rockingham, Greenesville, South-
ampton, Clarke, Rappahanock, Carroll, Page, Halifax, and the
citv of Petersburg may each have five in office at the same time,
and the counties of Chesterfield and Buckingham, seven; the
counties of Amherst, Botetourt, Fauquier, Henrico, Russell,
Shenandoah, Frederick, Lee, Spotsylvania, Caroline and Prince
William may have six each; and the county of Stafford may have
six, one of whom may be a resident of the city of Fredericksburg.
The additional commissioner herein appointed, provided for
Frederick and Dickenson counties, and one of the additional
commissioners herein appointed, provided for the corporation
court of the city of Portsmouth, shall, if practicable, be a steno-
grapher, and the number designated for said two counties of
Frederick and Dickenson shall be exclusive of the examiner of
records.

2. There being an emergency in consequence of the fact that
no one of the commissioners for the corporation court of the city
of Portsmouth is now a stenographer, this act shall take effect
from its passage.