Chap. 442.—An ACT to establish a circuit court for the city of Newport News.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
shall be a circuit court in and for the city of Newport News, to be
called the circuit court of the city of Newport News, which shall be
held by the judge of the eighth judicial circuit in the court-house
of the said city of Newport News.

2. That the said circuit court and the judge thereof shall have the
Bame jurisdiction, duties, and powers, in all respects within the
limits of said city that the several circuit courts of this common-
wealth have within their respective counties and corporations. The
sergeant of the said city and his deputies shall attend the said court
and do and perform the duties, have and exercise the powers, receive
the compensation, and be liable to the penalties of a sheriff and his
deputies in relation to the circuit court of his county. The clerk of
the corporation court of said city shall be clerk of said circuit court.
He shall perform similar duties, receive the same compensation,
and be liable to the same penalties as other clerks of circuit courts
in this commonwealth, and be governed by the same generals laws.

3. That the terms of court, unless otherwise provided by law, shall
be held at such times as may from time to time be fixed upon by the
judge thereof.

4. That any suit, motion, or other proceeding now pending in the
circuit court of Warwick county, which if instituted subsequent to
the passage of this act would have come within the jurisdiction of
the circuit court of the city of Newport News, shall be forthwith
removed to the circuit court of the city of Newport News. When
any such suit, motion, or other proceeding is removed under this act
the clerk of the circuit court of Warwick county shall transmit to
the clerk of the circuit court of the city of Newport News the original
papers, with the copies of all rules and orders or decrees made which
are not in the original papers, and a statement of the costs incurred
by each party therein; whereupon such suit, motion, or other pro-
ceeding shall be proceeded in, heard, and determined by the said
circuit court of the city of Newport News as if it had been originally
brought therein. The costs attending such removal shall be charged
as may be thought just by the judge of the circuit court of Warwick
county.

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