Chap. 412.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5887-of the Code of Vir-
ginia; and to amend and re-enact section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved January 29, 1920. (S B 401)

Approved March 20, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
hfty-eight hundred and eighty-seven and fifty-eight hundred and
eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia, the latter of which sections was
amended by an act approved January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred
and twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5887. Circuit courts established for counties and cities. For
the city of Williamsburg and the 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 Alexandria, Danville, Lynchburg, Newport News, Norfolk,
Petersburg, Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Charlottesville and
Hopewell ; and the cities of Clifton Forge and Suffolk, there shall
be a circuit court, which shall be called the circuit court of such county
or city, or such city and county, as the case may be. Any action or
proceeding taken or had in the circuit court of Rockingham county
or in the clerk’s office thereof, since the twelfth day of January, nine-
teen hundred and twenty, which under the provisions of this section
as it appears in the Code of nineteen hundred and nineteen should
have been taken or had in the circuit court of the city of Harrisonburg,
or in the clerk’s office thereof, shall be as valid and-effectual in all
respects as if no separate circuit court for the city of Harrisonburg
had been created or provided for by the said Code; and any action or
proceeding taken or had in the circuit court of Elizabeth City county,
or in the clerk’s office thereof, since the twelfth day of January, nine-
teen hundred and twenty, which under the provisions of this section
as it appears in the Code of nineteen hundred and nineteen, should
have been taken or had in the circuit court of the city of Hampton,
or in the clerk’s office thereof, shall be as valid and effectual in all
respects as if no separate circuit court for the city of Hampton had
been created or provided for by the said Code.
Sec. 5888. Judicial circuits. —The State shall be divided into
thirty-two judicial circuits as follows: ,
-1. The county of Norfolk shall constitute the first circuit.
2. The counties of Nansemond and Southampton, and the city of
Suffolk, shall constitute the second circuit.
3. The counties of Prince George, Surry, Sussex, Greensville, and
Brunswick and the city of Hopewell, shall constitute the third circuit.
4. The counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Amelia,
Powhatan and the city of Petersburg shall constitute the fourth circuit.
5. The counties of Prince Edward, Cumberland, Appomattox,
Charlotte and Buckingham shall constitute the fifth circuit.
6. The counties of Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Halifax, Campbell,
and the city of Lynchburg shall constitute the sixth circuit.
The counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, and the city of
Danville shall constitute the seventh circuit.
8. The counties of Madison, Greene and Albemarle, and the
city of Charlottesville shall constitute the eighth circuit.
The counties of Culpeper, Orange, Louisa and Goochland shall
constitute the ninth circuit. ,
10. The county of Henrico and the city of Richmond shall con-
stitute the tenth circuit.
11. The county of Elizabeth City and the city of Newport News
shall constitute the eleventh circuit.
12. The counties of Richmond, Northumberland, Westmoreland,
Lancaster and Essex shall constitute the twelfth circuit. .
13. The counties of Gloucester, Mathews, King and Queen, King
William and Middlesex shall constitute the thirteenth circuit.
14. The counties of New Kent, Charles City, York, Warwicl
James City, and the city of Williamsburg shall constitute the fou:
teenth circuit.

15. The counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Carolin
and Hanover shall constitute the fifteenth circuit.

16. The counties of Prince William, Fairfax and Alexandria, an
the city of Alexandria shall constitute the sixteenth circuit.

17. The counties of I*rederick, Clarke, Warren and Shenandoa
shall constitute the seventeenth circuit.

18. The counties of Augusta, Highland and Rockbridge shall con
stitute the eighteenth circuit.

19. The counties of Bath, Alleghany, Craig and Botetourt, an
the city of Clifton Forge shall constitute the nineteenth circuit.

20. The counties of Roanoke, Montgomery, Floyd and the cit:
of Roanoke shall constitute the twentieth circuit.

21. The counties of Pulaski, Carroll, Wythe and Grayson shal
constitute the twenty-first circuit.

22. The counties of Bland, Tazewell, and Giles shall constitut:
the twenty-second circuit.

23. The counties of Washington, Smyth and Scott shall constitut
the twenty-third circuit.

24. The counties of [ee and Wise shall constitute the twenty
fourth circuit.

25. The counties of Rockingham and Page shall constitute th
twenty-fifth circuit.

26. The counties of Rappahannock, Fauquier and Loudoun shal
constitute the twenty-sixth circuit.

27. The counties of Buchanan, Russell and Dickenson shall con-
stitute the twenty-seventh circuit.

28. The counties of Isle of Wight and Princess Anne and the
city of Portsmouth shall constitute the twenty-eighth circuit.

29. The counties of Amherst, Nelson and Fluvanna shall consti-
tute the twenty-ninth circuit.

30. The counties of Bedford and F ranklin shall constitute the
thirtieth circuit.

31. The counties of Accomac and Northampton shall constitute
the thirty-first circuit.

32. The city of Norfolk shall constitute the thirty-second circuit.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.