Chap. 230.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establigh
an additional corporation court for the city of Norfolk, Virginia, OT]

February 25, 1922.
Approved March 14, 1924.

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 an act
to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish an additional
corporation court for the city of. Norfolk, Virginia, approved February
twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

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 additional
judge with like qualifications and to be elected 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 by 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 Feb-
ruary, 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 judgeship 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 corporation court
of the city of Norfolk, and the judge thereof, now have and which may
hereatter 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 80 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 re-
lating 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 said city, shall also
be the clerk of said court, and shall receive for his compensation such
reasonable salary for the services rendered by him under this chapter,
as may be recommended by the judge of said court, by order of record,
certified to the city council of the city of Norfolk, and approved by said
council, and paid out of the treasury of the said city. 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 Nor-
folk, 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 court, 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 whereof 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 provided, 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 juris-
diction.

13. Appeals, writs of error and supersedeas from and to judgments
and orders 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.