Chap. 37.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 832 of the Code of Vir
ginia. (H. B. 11.)
Approved February 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha
section eight hundred and thirty-two of the Code of Virginia b
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec, 832. Board to sit with open doors; sheriff to attend
his pay; majority to decide questions; how in case of tie.—I
shall sit with open doors, and all persons conducting themselve
in an orderly manner may attend its meetings. It may requir
the sheriff of the county, or at his option, one of his deputies
to attend its meetings and preserve order, or discharge suc!
other duties as may be necessary to the proper dispatch of the
business before it; and such officer for his services shall be en
titled to compensation, to be ascertained by the board and paid
out of the county levy, not exceeding two dollars per day or twelve
dollars per annum. All questions submitted to the board for
decision under the proceedings of this chapter, or any law of
the State, shall be determined by a viva voce vote of a majority
of the supervisors present; but in any case in which there shall
be a tie vote of the board upon any question when all the mem-
bers are not present, the question shall be passed by till the first
meeting at which all the members are present, when it shall
again be voted upon; in any case in which there shall be a tie
vote on any question, all the members of the board being present,
the clerk shall record the vote, and immediately notify the com-
missioner in chancery, designated by the court as hereinafter
provided for to give the casting vote in case of a tie, if that be
practicable, and request his presence at the present meeting of
the board; but if that be not practicable then the board may
adjourn to a day fixed in the minutes of the board, or in case of
a failure to agree on a day, to a day fixed by the clerk and en-
tered by him on the minutes. At the present meeting or on the
day named in the minutes the said commissioner shall attend.
He shall be entitled to be fully advised as to the matter upon
which he is to vote, and if not prepared to cast his vote at the
time he may require the clerk to enter an order adjourning the
meeting to some future day to be named in the minutes not to
exceed thirty days and from time to time he shall have continu-
ances entered until he is ready to vote, not to exceed thirty days.
When he casts his vote the clerk shall record his vote and the
tie shall be broken, and the question shall be decided as he casts
his vote. If a meeting for any reason shall not be held on the
day named in the minutes the clerk shall enter on the minute
book a day within ten days as a substitute day and duly notify
all the members, and this shall continue until a meeting is held.
After a tie has occurred, the said commissioner shall be consid-
ered a member of the board for the purpose of counting a quorum
for the sole purpose of breaking the tie. The circuit court of
each county, or judge thereof in vacation, shall, as soon as may
be, after the passage of this act, designate one of the commis-
sioners in chancery of such court, whose duty shall be to cast the
deciding vote in case of tie, as hereinbefore set forth, which
designation shall be by order entered in the common law order
book. The appointment may be changed from time to time, as
the court or judge thereof in vacation may deem proper, and
any substituted commissioner shall take the place of his prede-
cessor just in the condition as to notice or other matters as if
Iways been the commissioner.
ne 2 An emergency existing this act shall take effect from its

passage.