Chap. 110.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5988 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by acts approved January 29, 1920, and March 20, 1920, as relates
to Roanoke City, and the city of Petersburg and the city of Norfolk. [S B 100]

Approved March 7, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-nine hundred and eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by acts approved January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty,
and March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5988. List of jurors to be prepared by the jury commis-
sioners.—Such commissioner, shall, as soon as may be after their ap-
pointment, prepare a list of such of the inhabitants of that county or
city as are well qualified to serve as jurors and are not excluded or ex-
empt by sections fifty-nine hundred and eighty-four and fifty-nine hun-
dred 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 and the
city of Norfolk the number shall not exceed one thousand and the cor-
poration court for the city of Roanoke, the number shall not exceed six
hundred, and for the city of Newport News and the city of Petersburg
the number shall not exceed five hundred. The same percentage of pop-
ulation 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 jurisdic-
tion in the city in which cases the city shall be considered as a magis-
terial district, or the equivalent of a magisterial district, of the county
for the purposes of the jury lists.

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

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