Chap. 54.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4 and 9, of an
act approved February 25th, 1884, entitled an act to establish a Cor-
poration Court for the City of Roanoke.

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Approved January 28, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections two, four and nine, of an act approved February twen-
ty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to
establish a corporation court for the city of Roanoke, be
amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

§ 2. The said court shall have concurrent, original jurisdic-
tion with the circuit court, to hear and determine all cases at
law or in chancery, respectively, arising within the corporate
limits of said city, except civil causes, to recover property or
money not of greater value or amount than twenty dollars, ex-
clusive of interest. .

§ 4. The criminal jurisdiction of the said court shall be such
as is conferred by general law upon the corporation courts of
this commonwealth, and shall extend to all offences committed
within the corporate limits of said city, or within one mile of
said limits. The jurisdiction conferred by this section shall be
exclusive of that of all other courts as to offences committed
within the corporate limits of said city, but as to offences com-
mitted within one mile of said limits, and in the county of
Roanoke, shall be concurrent with that of the county court of
Roanoke county.

§ 9. The judge of the said corporation court shall receive
an annual salary of not less than seven hundred and fifty, nor
more than twelve hundred dollars, to be fixed by the council of
the city of Roanoke, to be paid as provided by law; and the
said judge shall qualify by taking the oaths required by law
within thirty days after he receives his commission; said oaths
to be taken before any notary public, or any clerk of a court
of record:

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.