Chap. 474.—An ACT to locate the court-house, clerk’s office, and jail of the
county of Warwick.

Approved February 24, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
court-house, clerk’s office, and jail of the county of Warwick shall
be located at their former site, in Denbeigh magisterial district, in
Warwick county.

2. The records of the county of Warwick shall remain in the
clerk’s office of the corporation court of the city of Newport News,
and under the care and custody of the clerk of the corporation court
of the city of Newport News; and the judges of the circuit and
county courts of the county of Warwick shall cause to be copied
from said records all of the records pertaining to said courts and
required to be kept in the clerk’s office thereof from the first day of
January, anno domini eighteen hundred and eighty, such copies to
be filed in the clerk’s office of the said courts and to have the same
effect and force, in all respects whatever, as the originals; and that
the records in all cases pending in the circuit and county courts of
Warwick county be removed to the clerk’s office of said county in
Denbeigh magisterial district.

3. That from the passage of this act the courts for the said county
of Warwick shall be held at the court-house of the said county of
Warwick, in Denbeigh magisterial district, in Warwick county.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.