Chap. 121.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 306, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia relating to the duties of the Clerk of the House of Delegates.

[H B 64]
Approved March 7, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section three hundred six of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 306. Duties of Clerk of House of Delegates—In addition
to such duties as may be prescribed by the rules of the House, the Clerk
of the House of Delegates shall at the end of each session of this General
Assembly prepare a well-arranged index to the journal of the House and
the documents printed during the session by order of the House. He
shall cause to be printed, with the acts and such joint resolutions as are
not of a purely procedural nature of each session of the General Assem-
bly, tables showing the time for the commencement of the regular terms
of the Supreme Court of Appeals and of each circuit, corporation, and
city court; the places at which separate polls have ‘been established in
each county ; the names of the several magisterial districts in each county ;
and the names or numbers of the several wards, or precincts if there be
no wards, in each city; a list of the commissioners in other States, ap-
pointed by the Governor; and a carefully prepared and well-arranged
index of the acts and joint resolutions.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates shall cause to be published
for the time prescribed by the Constitution all proposed amendments to
the Constitution. Such publications shall be done as follows: He shall
have printed one thousand copies for distribution from his office and a
sufficient number additional of all such proposed amendments to enable
him to forward to the clerk of the circuit court of each county and to the
clerk of the circuit court of each city not having a corporation or hustings
court, and to the clerk of one of the corporation or hustings courts of each
city having such a court, five hundred copies of the same, except that
five hundred copies of the same shall be forwarded to the clerk of the
Circuit Court of the City of Williamsburg and James City County, and
eight hundred copies of the same shall be forwarded to the clerk of the
Circuit Court of Pittsylvania County and to the clerk of the Hustings
Court of the City of Richmond, which forwarding he shall do not later
than one month prior to the time for the commencement of the publica-
tion required by the Constitution. Every such clerk of court shall, upon
the receipt of such copies, post ten of such copies at the front door of his
courthouse, and shall deliver to the sheriff of his county and/or the ser-
geant of his city a sufficient number of such copies to enable such sheriff
or sergeant to post ten such copies at each voting place in his county or
city and in five other conspicuous places in his county or city, and such
sheriff or sergeant shall do such posting. The remainder of such copies
shall be exposed in the office of such clerk for free distribution among
such citizens as may apply for copies. Every such clerk of court, and
every such sheriff or sergeant, shall complete the posting hereby required
not later than three months prior to the next ensuing general election of
members of the House of Delegates and shall make return thereof to the
Clerk of the House of Delegates upon the completion of such posting.
The compliance by the Clerk of the House of Delegates with the forego-
ing provisions of this paragraph shall be conclusive evidence that such
proposed amendment or amendments to the Constitution have been pub-
lished as required by the Constitution. The Clerk of the House of
Delegates shall also cause to be published monthly for three consecutive
months in one daily newspaper published in the City of Richmond all
proposed amendments to the Constitution, the first publication to be made
at the time fixed by the Constitution for the commencement of the publi-
cation of all proposed amendments to the Constitution. All costs, the
ment of which is not hereinabove provided for, shall be certified by
the Clerk of the House of Delegates to the Comptroller for payment. The
Clerk of the House of Delegates shall make report of the action taken by
him under this paragraph to the next succeeding General Assembly.