CHAP. 480.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3056 of the code of Vir-
ginia, 1887, providing for the establishment of circuit courts, and also to
amend and re-enact subdivision 8, section 3057 of said code, constituting
eighth judicial circuit.

Approved February 24, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty hundred and fifty-six of the code of Virginia, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 3056. Circuit courts established for counties and cities.—For the
city of Williamsburg and county of James City, for that part of the
county of Henrico which is without the corporate limits of the city
of Richmond, and for every other county, and for each of the cities
of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Fredericksburg,
Alexandria, Danville, Roanoke and Newport News there shall be a
circuit court, which shall be called the circuit court of such county
or city, or of such city and county, as the case may be.

2. And beit further enacted, That subdivision eight of section
thirty hundred and fifty-seven of the code of eighteen hundred and
pighty-seven be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3057. The counties of Accomac, Northampton, York, Elizabeth
City, Warwick, James City, New Kent, Charles City and the cities of
Williamsburg and Newport News shall constitute the eighth circuit.

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