Chap. 18.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entited an act to provide
for the revision, codification and indexing with suitable marginal cita-
tions and references, of the statute law of Virginia; for the printing,
publication and disposition thereof; to appoint commissioners therefor
and fix their compensation; to provide for the necessary clerical assis-
tants to said commissioners; and to appropriate the necessary funds for
said work. Approved March 21, 1914. (H. B. 4)

Approved February 5, 1915.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled an act to provide for the revision, codification and indexing, with
suitable marginal citations and references, of the statute law of Vir-
ginia; for the printing, publication and disposition thereof; to appoint
commissioners therefor and fix their compensation; to provide for the
necessary clerical assistants to said commissioners; and to appropriate
the necessary funds for said work, approved March 21, 1914, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1. Samuel A. Anderson, M. P. Burks and F. B. Hutton, the com-
missioners appointed under the act approved March 21, 1914, to revise,
codify and index the general statute law of this State, shall collate, re-
vise, and codify all the general statutes, civil and criminal, of this Com-
monwealth, which may be in force at the time of the completion of
their work, and properly index the same. They shall arrange all the
statutes under proper titles and chapters, and divide the whole Code
into sections, numbering them consecutively from one to the end, having
regard to the divisions into titles and chapters; they shall make or
cause to be made such foot-notes, marginal citations or references as
they may deem proper or helpful to a clear understanding of the statutes,
and prefix to each chapter a table, stating briefly the subject thereof,
and inserting or omitting such captions to sections as to them may
seem fit; they shall in all respects execute and complete the revision
and codifications as hereby directed in such manner, as in their opinion,
will harmonize the general statutes and make the Code of statute law, as
existing at the close of their work, as complete as possible, and they shall
supervise the publication of the first edition of such revision and codifi-
cation of the statutes, and examine, read and correct the proof thereof,
until the said work shall have been fully completed and published, in-
cluding a proper index.

Sec. 2. The register of the land office shall assign some convenient
room in the capitol or the State library building, and furnish the same
for the use of said commissioners while engaged in said work. The
said commissioners shall have power to appoint a clerk, whose salary
shall not exceed eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and to employ such
additional clerical help as may be necessary, at a total expense for such
additional help not to exceed five thousand dollars per annum, and to
purchase such stationery and supplies as shall be necessary. Each of
the said commissioners shall receive the sum of six thousand dollars.
The clerical help shall be paid monthly. Warrants for the payment of
the moneys hereby authorized to be expended shall be drawn by the
auditor of public accounts, upon the treasurer of the Commonwealth, on
the order of the said commissioners, or a majority of them, approved
by the governor.

Sec. 3. The principal office of the said commissioners shall be located
in either the capitol or the library building of the State, in the city of
Richmond ; but the commissioners, if in their judgment it be conducive
to their work, may, from time to time, hold their sessions elsewhere,
or execute their work at such times and places as to them may seem
best. The said commissioners and their clerks shall receive, in addition
to the compensation hereinbefore provided for, their actual expenses in
attendance upon their meetings; provided, however, that such expenses
shall not exceed in any year one thousand dollars.

Sec. 4. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall furnish to each
of the commissioners such copies of the several codes of the statute law
of this State, and of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, as they
may need in the prosecution of their work.

Sec. 5. The said commissioners shall make report of their work
when complete to the general assembly, and, in the meantime, they are
hereby authorized to deliver the whole or any part of their report at
different times to the public printer, who shall print five hundred copies
thereof for the use of the general assembly.

Sec. 6. The said revision and codification, together with the index,
citations, and references, shall be published by the public printer under
the supervision, advice, and direction of the said commissioners, in one
volume, if practicable, printed on good paper, in such types as may
be prescribed by the commissioners, well bound in calf, and lettered on
the back, “Code of Virginia.” The said Code shall also contain the
Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States,
and its amendments; also the Constitution of Virginia, and its amend-
ments, and a complete index to the same, and it shall be the duty of
the said commissioners to prepare the same for publication.

Sec. 7. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall secure the copy-
right of the said revision and codification for the use and benefit of the
Commonwealth of Virginia.

Sec. 8. The superintendent of public printing, in having the print-
ing, binding, and lettering aforesaid done, and in attending to the pub-
lication of said revision and codification, shall in all respects conform
to the requirements of the law in regard to the public printing.

Sec. 9. When the said revision and codification of the statute law
of this State shall have been completed and adopted by the general as-
sembly, ten thousand copies thereof shall in the discretion of the revisers
be printed by the superintendent of public printing without annotations
and five thousand copies with annotations, and the same shall be dis-
posed of as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 10. The said revision and codification of the statutes, when so
completed and adopted by the general assembly of Virginia, and pub-
lished as in this act provided, shall be received as evidence for any pur-
pose for which the original act could be received, and with as much
effect.

Sec. 11. The said commissioners shall, within six months after the
publication of the revision and codification of the statute laws afore-
said, prepare and deliver to the superintendent of public printing, for
publication in conformity with the requirements of the law in respect
to public printing, such notes as they may deem useful in explanation
of the changes made in the law by said revision and codification. The
said notes and notations and citations shall be printed and.bound in
a separate volume in the same manner and form as the said Code is
herein required to be printed and bound, and the said commissioners
shall superintend the publication thereof, and such publications shall
be disposed of as shall be provided by law.

Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of the city council of each city, the
town council of each town, and the board of supervisors of each county
in this State to purchase from the secretary of the Commonwealth a
sufficient number of the copies of said revision and codification, without
annotations, for distribution in the manner following: A copy thereof
to the mayor of each town and one copy to the clerk of the town council
for the use of the council only; one copy to each sheriff, sergeant, treas-
urer, city engineer, county surveyor, superintendent of schools, chief of
fire department, and to each justice of the peace. It shall also be the
duty of the city council of each city and the board of supervisors of
each county in the State to purchase in like manner a sufficient number
of the copies of said revision and codification with annotations for dis-
tribution in the manner following: One copy thereof to the mayor of
each city, and one copy to the clerk of each branch of the city council
for the use of the council only; one copy thereof to each attorney for
the Commonwealth and one copy thereof to each court held in the city
and county for the use of the court, and a copy for the clerk of each
of the said courts. The copies of the Code so furnished to the officers
herein so provided shall remain the property of the city or county, as
the case may be, and the board of supervisors of the county and city
council of each city, and the town council of each town shall require
such deposit or other security as may be prescribed by any such city
or town council or board of supervisors, to secure the proper care and
safe return thereof upon the expiration of their terms of office, respec-
tively, to such person or depository as such city or town council or board
of supervisors may by resolution direct. The secretary of the Common-
wealth shall furnish to the cities, towns, and counties such copies as
they may require to comply with the provisions of this section at the
actual cost per volume of the revision, codification and publication thereof
to the Commonwealth.

Sec. 13. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall be authorized
to dispose of the surplus of copies of said revision and codification in
his hands, after complying with the requirements of this act, at such
price as may be prescribed by law. All moneys realized from the sale
and disposition of said revision and codification, and commissioners’
notes, shall be paid into the public treasury until such sum is realized
therefrom as will reimburse the Commonwealth for the cost of the
revision, codification and publication of the same. After the Common-
wealth has been fully reimbursed as aforesaid, the proceeds of all sales
thereafter made shall be and constitute a part of the literary fund of
this Commonwealth.

Sec. 14. The sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of this act, the same to be paid out of the treasury
as hereinbefore provided.

Sec. 15. In the event of the death, disability, resignation, or removal
of any of the commissioners appointed under this act before the com-
pletion of said revision, his successor shall be appointed in the same
manner provided in the first section of the act approved March twenty-
first, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

Sec. 16. It being desirable that the changes herein made should
be immediately effective in the revision of the Code, an emergency is
declared to exist and this act shall be in force from its passage.