CHAP. 36.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5888 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to the division of the State into judicial circuits. [H B 88]

Approved February 21, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section fifty-eight hundred eighty-eight of the Code of
‘irginia, as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 5888. Judicial circuits—The State shall be divided into
hirty-five 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, Surry, Greensville and
srunswick, and the city of Hopewell, shall constitute the third circuit.

(4) The counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Amelia,
->owhatan, and the city of Petersburg, shall constitute the fourth circuit.

(5) The counties of Appomattox, Charlotte, Prince Edward,
3uckingham and Cumberland shall constitute the fifth circuit.

(6) The county of Campbell, and the city of Lynchburg shall con-
titute the sixth circuit.

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

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

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

(10) The county of Henrico and the city of Richmond shall con-
titute the tenth circuit.

(11) The county of Elizabeth City and the city of Newport News
hall 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,
lames City and the city of Williamsburg shall constitute the fourteenth
circuit.

(15) The counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline
ind Hanover and the city of Fredericksburg shall constitute the fifteenth
circuit...
(16) The counties of Prince William and Fairfax 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 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 circunt.

(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 cir-
cult.