Chap. 5.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5893 of the Code of Virginia.
H B 78)

Approved February 3, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-eight hundred and ninety-three of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5893. The commencement and number of their terms.—
Unless otherwise provided, there shall be held in each of the cities
of the Commonwealth two terms of the circuit court of such city in
each year, and in each of the counties there shall be held bi-monthly
terms of the circuit court of such county, four of which terms in
those counties in which more than four terms are provided, to be
designated by the judge thereof, shall be known as quarterly terms,
at which all civil cases for which juries may be required shall be
tried, unless the judge of any circuit shall enter of record that juries
shall be summoned to other than the quarterly terms for the trial of
civil cases. At any of the said terms all criminal and chancery causes
shall be tried, but the judge of the court may, in any county in which
more than five terms are provided, by an order to be entered on the
common law order book of said court, omit one of the terms thereof
during each year, unless the public business shall require that all of the
said terms be held for the proper transaction of business. The number
of terms of said courts and the days for the commencement of the
same shall be as fixed by law at the time this Code takes effect, but the
judge of every such court may, from time to time change the day
for the commencement of the terms thereof, or any of them; provided
however, that there shall be ten terms of the circuit court for the
city of Norfolk, constituting the thirty-second circuit and that the days
for the commencement of the same shall be as follows: On the second
Monday in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, Octo-
ber, November and December; the clerks of such courts within thirty
days after such change, shall send a copy of the order making it to
the clerk of the house of delegates, and, for failure so to do, shall
forfeit fifty dollars.

Any term of a circuit court for any of the counties or cities of
the circuit may be continued by the judge thereof by adjournment
until after the beginning of the term of the court for any other county
or city of such circuit. And when such adjournment is until after the
beginning of a term of the court for another county, the judge of
said court shall have the same power during said recess to perform
any duty and to transact any business which is authorized by law to be
done by judges of the circuit courts in vacation; but no term of the
court shall be so continued beyond the day fixed by law for the
beginning of the next regular term of the court for the county or
city of the circuit whose term is so extended.

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