Chap. 406.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5986 and 5988 of the Code
of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January 29, 1920. [S B 375]

Approved March 20, 1920.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
fifty-nine hundred and eighty-six and fifty-nine hundred and eighty-
eight, of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved January
twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty, be further amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5986. Appvintment of jury commissioners.—The judge of the
circuit court of each county and city, and the judge of every city
court where juries are empaneled, shall, prior to the fifteenth day of
February in each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, appoint
for the next ensuing year ending on the following fifteenth day of Feb-
ruary two persons as jury commissioners, who shall be competent to
serve as jurors under the provisions of this chapter, and shall be men
of intelligence, morality, and integrity. No practicing attorney-at-law,
however, shall hereafter be appointed as a jury commissioner. Such
appointment shall be certified by the judge to the clerk of the court
for which the appointment is made, who shall enter the same on the
common law order book of such court. [very jury commissioner shall
have a fee of five dollars a day for the time actually engaged in mak-
ing out the list of jurors mentioned in section fifty-nine hundred and
eighty-eight, to be paid out of the treasury of the city or county for
which he is appointed on the certificate of the judge making the ap-
pointment, or in case of his death, removal, or inability to act, on a
certificate of his successor in office or of the judge designated to hold
his courts. No jury commissioner shall be eligible to reappointment
for at least two years after the expiration of the year for which he
was appointed. For the purpose of this section, the two parts of
the hustings court of the city of Richmond shall be deemed to be
separate courts.

Sec. 5988. List of jurors to be prepared by the jury commission-
ers.—Such commissioners, shall, as soon as may be after their appoint-

ment, prepare a list of such of the inhabitants of that county or city
as are well qualified to serve as jurorsaand are not excluded or exempt
by sections fifty-nine hundred and eighty-four and fifty-nine hundred
and eighty-five of this Code. The whole number of persons selected
in the county or city shall not be less than one hundred nor more than
three hundred, except that for the city of Richmond the number shall
not exceed one thousand, and for the city of Norfolk the number
shall not exceed six hundred, and for the city of Newport News the
number shall not exceed five hundred. The same percentage of popu-
lation shall be taken from each magisterial district or ward. The-in-
habitants of a city, however, which is situated in whole or in part
within the bounds of a county shall not be placed on the lists for such
county; except in those cases where the circuit court of the county
has jurisdiction in the city in which cases the city shall be considered
as a magisterial district, or the equivalent of a magisterial district,
of the county for the purposes of the jury lists.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.