Chap. 10.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5936 of t ode of Virginia,
relating to the court of law and chancery of the city of Ndffolk. [S B 15]

Approved February 12, 1934

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-nine hundred and thirty-six of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5936, The said court of law and chancery shall have no
jurisdiction of the following matters, which shall remain as heretofore
in the corporation court of the said city:

Presentments, indictments and informations for offenses, actions
and proceedings to enforce the payment of fines and penalties, except
those conferred by law exclusively upon the police justice of said city
or justices of the peace; appeals allowed by any State law or ordinance
of said city from the police justice, and distress warrants and attach-
ments for rent; proceedings for the condemnation of land or other
property; questions, powers and duties arising out of the laws for the
assessment and collection of taxes; except that all of the courts of
record for the city of Norfolk shall have concurrent jurisdiction for
relief from erroneous assessments, pursuant to section four hundred
and fourteen of the Tax Code of Virginia; questions, powers, duties
and proceedings arising out of the election laws and contested elections;
the docketing of judgments and the recordation, in the mode prescribed
by law, of deeds and other papers authorized or required by law to be
recorded.

And the said corporation court, and the judge thereof in vacation,
shall retain all the powers and jurisdiction possessed by the corporation
court of the city of Norfolk, and discharge all the duties devolving upon
the said corporation court of the city of Norfolk on the day before the
first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ex-
cept such as are herein expressly conferred upon the court of law and
chancery.