Chap. 31.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5888 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, in relation to judicial circuits, so as to make the city of Buena
Vista part of the eighteenth judicial circuit. [H B 237]

Approved February 26, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-eight hundred and eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5888. The State shall be divided into thirty-four 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, 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 fourtl
circuit.

(5) The counties of Appomatox, Charlotte, Prince Edward, Buck
ingham and Cumberland shall constitute the fifth circuit.

(6) The county of Campbell, and the city of Lynchburg shal
constitute the sixth circuit.

(7) The counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, and the city 0!
Danville, shall constitute the seventh circuit.

(8) The counties of Madison, Greene and Albemarle and the city
of Charlottesville shall constitute the eighth circuit.

(9) The counties of Culpeper, Orange, Louisa and Goochland shal
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, Warwick.
James City and the city of Williamsburg shall constitute the fourteenth
circuit. |

(15) The counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Car-
oline and Hanover shall constitute the fifteenth circuit.

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

(17) The counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren and Shenandoah
shall constitute the seventeenth circuit.

(18) The counties of Augusta, Highland and Rockbridge and the
city of Buena Vista shall constitute the eighteenth circuit.

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

(20) The counties of Roanoke, Montgomery, Floyd and the city
of Roanoke shall constitute the twentieth circuit.

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

(22) The counties of Bland, Tazewell and Giles shall constitute
the twenty-second circuit.

(23) The counties of Washington and Smyth shall constitute the
twenty-third circuit.

(24) The counties of Lee and Scott shall constitute the twenty-
fourth circuit.
(25) The counties of Rockingham and Page shall constitute the
wenty-fifth circuit.

(26) The counties of Rappahannock, Fauquier and Loudoun shall
‘onstitute the twenty-sixth circuit.

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

(28) The counties of Isle of Wight, Princess Anne, Surry and the
ity of Portsmouth shall constitute the twenty-eighth circuit.

(29) The counties of Amherst, Nelson and Fluvanna shall con-
stitute the twenty-ninth circuit.

(30) The counties of Bedford and Franklin shall constitute the
hirtieth circuit.

(31) The counties of Accomac and Northampton shall constitute
he thirty-first circuit.

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

(33) The county of Wise shall constitute the thirty-third circuit.

(34) The counties of Halifax, Mecklenburg and Lunenburg shall
‘onstitute the thirty-fourth circuit.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from and after
he abolition of the corporation court of the city of Buena Vista, in the
nanner prescribed by section ninety-eight of the Constitution of Vir-
yinia.