Chap. 249.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5887 and 5888 of the Code
of Virginia, as amended, relating to circuit courts and judicial circuits, and to
further amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered
5887-b, abolishing the circuit court of the City of Danville, and transferring
the jurisdiction, records, property and equipment of such court and the pro-
ceedings therein to the corporation court of the City of Danville. [S B 252]

Approved March 25, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That sections fifty-eight hundred eighty-seven and fifty-eight
hundred eighty-eight» of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended
and re-enacted, and that the Code of Virginia be further amended by
adding thereto a new section numbered fifty-eight hundred eighty-
seven-b, the amended and new sections being as follows:

Section 5887. Circuit court 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, Charlottesville, Clifton Forge, Fredericksburg, Hopewell,
Lynchburg, Martinsville, Newport News, Norfolk, Petersburg, Ports-
mouth, Richmond, Roanoke, 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, nineteen 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 Jan-
uary, nineteen 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 re-
spects as if no separate circuit court for the city of Hampton had been
created or provided for by the said Code.

Section 5887-b. Circuit court for Danville abolished ; jurisdiction.
et cetera, transferred to corporation court.—The circuit court now es-
tablished in the city of Danville is hereby abolished. All jurisdiction now
vested in the circuit court of the city of Danville is hereby vested in the
corporation court of the city of Danville. All suits, causes, motions and
other proceedings of any kind or character now pending in such circuit
court are hereby transferred to the corporation court of the city of Dan-
ville, and shall be proceeded with in such court as if they had been origi-
nally instituted therein. All records pertaining to the court hereby abol-
ished, and all property and equipment used therein, are hereby trans-
ferred to and shall become a part of the records and property of the
corporation court of the city of Danville.
Section 5888. Judicial Circuits—The State shall be d
hirty-five judicial circuits as follows:

(1) The county of Norfolk shall constitute the first circt

(2) THe counties of Nansemond and Southampton an
of Suffolk shall constitute the second circuit.

(3) The counties of Prince George, Sussex, Surry, |
and Brunswick, and the city of Hopewell, shall constitute th
cuit.

(4) The counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottowa
Powhatan, and the city of Petersburg, shall constitute the fou

(5) The counties of Appomattox, Charlotte, Princ
Buckingham and Cumberland shall constitute the fifth circuit.

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

(7) The counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, and
Martinsville, shall constitute the seventh circuit.

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

(9) The counties of Culpeper, Orange, Louisa and
shall constitute the ninth circuit.

(10) The county of Henrico and the city of Richmond
stitute the tenth circuit.

(11) The county of Elizabeth City and the city of New
shall constitute the eleventh circuit.

(12) The counties of Richmond, Northumberland, We:
Lancaster and Essex shall constitute the twelfth circuit.

(13) The counties of Gloucester, Mathews, King and Q
William and Middlesex shall constitute the thirteenth circuit.

(14) The counties of New Kent, Charles City, York,
James City and the city of Williamsburg shall constitute the
circuit.

(15) The counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvan:
and Hanover and the city of Fredericksburg shall constitute t
circuit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(22) The counties of Bland, Tazewell and Giles shall co
twenty-second circuit.
(23) The counties of Washington and Smyth shall constitute the
twenty-third circuit.

(24) The counties of Russell and Scott shall constitute the twenty-
fourth circuit.

(25) The counties of Rockingham and Page shall constitute the
twenty-fifth circuit.

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

(27) The counties of Buchanan and Dickenson shall constitute the
twenty-seventh circuit.

(28) The counties of Isle of Wight, Princess Anne and the city 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
thirtieth circuit.

(31) The counties of Accomack and Northampton shall constitute
the thirty-first circuit.

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

(33) The counties of Wise and Lee shall constitute the thirty-third
circuit.

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

(35) The county of Arlington shall constitute the thirty-fifth circuit.