Chap. 79.—An ACT to establish an additional corporation court for the city
of Norfolk, Virginia. [S B 127]

Approved February 25, 1922.

Whereas, the city of Norfolk, Virginia, now contains more than
thirty thousand inhabitants, and the public interest requires that
there should be established for the said city an additional court of
record, and that there should be an additional judge elected to hold
such court and perform such other duties as should be prescribed by
law; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That from
and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
there shall be in the said city of Norfolk, Virginia, an additional
corporation court, to be a court of record, and to be separate and
apart from the corporation court now existing in the said city of
Norfolk, and to be called and known as the “corporation court of
the city of Norfolk, number two,” and that there shall be an addi-
tional judge with like qualifications and to be clected in the same
manner as the judges of the corporation courts of the State, to hold
the said court and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed

y law.

2. The term of office of the judge of said court to be elected by

the general assembly hereunder shall commence on the first day of
February, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and shall end on the
thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and each
term thereafter shall be for eight years. A vacancy in said judge-
ship for the period between the first day of April, nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, and the first day of February, nineteen hundred
and twenty-three, is hereby declared to exist, which vacancy shall
be filled by appointment by the governor after the adjournment of
the general assembly and prior to the first day of April, nineteen
hundred and twenty-two.

3. The said court and the judge thereof shall have concurrently
with the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, and the judge
thereof, the same powers, duties and jurisdiction as the said corpo-
ration court of the city of Norfolk, and the judge thereof, now have
and which may hereafter be conferred by law.

4. There shall be held monthly terms of said court, except that
the judge thereof may omit the term to be held in the month of July
or August. The terms of said court shall begin on the first Monday
in each month, unless otherwise changed as prescribed by law, and
shall continue so long as the business of the court may require.

5. The rules for said court shall be the same as are now or
may hereafter be prescribed for the corporation courts of the State.

6. All provisions of law now in force or hereafter to be enacted
relating to regular and special grand juries, jury commissioners and
petit juries, applicable to the corporation courts of the State and to
the judges thereof shall apply to said court.and the judge thereof.

7. The clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk shall
also be the clerk of said court. He shall qualify as now prescribed
by law and give bond for the faithful performance of his duties in
both courts, and if he qualify before a judge in vacation, the bond
shall be certified to the corporation court of the city of Norfolk
and to said court, to be recorded in both courts. ;

8. The sergeant of the city of Norfolk shall be the officer to
attend on the said court and to execute its process and orders.

9. The attorney for the Commonwealth for the city of Norfolk
shall be the attorney for the Commonwealth for said court.

10. All provisions of law now in force and hereafter to be enacted
with reference to the judges of circuit courts, or city, or corporation
courts of record holding other corporation courts shall be applicable
to said court and the judge thereof, both with respect to other judges
holding said court and the said judge holding other courts.

11. All provisions of law now in force and hereafter to be enacted
relating to corporation courts of this State and to judges and other
officers thereof shall apply to said court and to the judge and other
officers thereof as if the said court and the judge and other officers
thereof were specially named therein, whenever necessary and proper
to enable the said court to exercise the powers, duties and jurisdiction
conferred or when relating to matters weherof the said court is given
jurisdiction.
12. Any duty devolved or power or jurisdiction conferred, or
which may hereafter be devolved or conferred by law on corporation
courts of this State, or the judge thereof, shall, unless otherwise pro-
vided, be deemed to be also devolved and conferred on said court,
and the judge thereof, when relating to matters whereof the said
court is given jurisdiction.

13. Appeals, writs of error and supersedeas from and to judg-
ments and order of the said court, or the judge thereof, shall be taken
and allowed as from and to judgments and orders of the corporation
courts of the State, or the judges thereof.

14. The salary of the judge of said court shall be three thousand
dollars and shall be payable in the same manner as now prescribed
by law for the judges of the circuit courts of the Commonwealth.

15. An emergency existing by reason of the necessity for the
establishment of said court, this act shall take effect from the date
of its passage.