Chap. 404.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5985 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by chapter 434 of the acts of 1922, providing for excep-
tions from jury service. [S B ion

Approved March 23, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-nine hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by chapter four hundred and thirty-four of the acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Sec. 5985. Who are exempt from jury service—The governor and
lieutenant-governor of the State, the members of the general assembly
while actually in session, practicing attorneys, licensed practicing phy-
sicians, registered practicing pharmacists, officers of any court, tele-
graph and telephone operators actually employed as such, all pilots li-
censed under the laws of the United States or of this State, active
members of the fire department of a city or town, and the active off-
cers and native members of any fire company therein, not exceeding
one hundred members in any one company; the president and vice-
president of the United States, the members of both houses of Con-
gress and their respective officers, but only while such houses of con-
gress are actually in session; all customhouse officers, with their clerks ;
all postmasters, postofficers, postriders and stage drivers, and all other
persons employed in the care and conveyance of the mails of the
United States; all mariners actually employed in the service of any
citizen or merchant within the United States, the secretary of the
Commonwealth, the attorney-general, the treasurer, the two auditors,
registrar of the land office, members, officers and clerks of the State
corporation commission, the commissioner of agriculture and superin-
tendent of public instruction, and their respective clerks, the door-
keeper of the executive, the clerk of both houses of the general assen-
bly, the judge of any court, all professors, tutors, and pupils of pub-
lic seminaries, while such public seminaries are actually in session;
all ministers of the gospel licensed to preach according to the rules of
their sect, undertakers who pav license tax as such and their regu-
larly employed assistants, sheriffs, constables, all persons while actually
engaged in harvesting or securing grain or hay or in cutting or secur-
ing tobacco, keepers of the county and corporation jails, superintend-
ents and servants of the public hospitals and lunatic asylums, super-
intendent of the penitentiary, his assistants and the persons compos-
ing the guard; one cashier and two tellers of the several banks estab-
lished by law, the police in cities and towns, the tipstaff and crier of
the court of appeals during its sittings, all millers actually emploved in
the mechanical operation of any grist mill, all ferrymen necessary and
personally emploved in or at any ferry established by law. the six lock
keepers of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, all dentists in actual
practice, and the active non-commissioned officers and the active mem-
bers of the Virginia volunteers shall be exempt from serving on juries
in civil and criminal cases, and contributing members of said volun-
teer companies who have contributed not less than twenty-five dollars
per annum, and the citizens of Tangier, Saces and Chincoteague is-
lands, in the county of Accomac and Broadwater and Cobb island, in
the county of Northampton, shall be exempt from jury service except
service on grand juries. But to entitle the active officers and active
members of the Virginia volunteers, as well as such contributing mem-
bers of said volunteer companies, or the active officers and members
of a fire department, not exceeding one hundred members for one
company, to this exemption, the captain or chief ofhcer of any company
of the Virginia volunteers, or of such department, shall annually. on
the first dav of May, furnish to the clerk of the circuit court of the
county or corporation court of the corporation wherein such company
or department is, a list containing the name of each active ofhcer and
active member of his company or department, and where there are
contributing members to his company, the name of each contributing
member who has for the preceding year contributed not less than
twenty-five dollars shall be likewise furnished.