Chap. 396.—An AOT to Amend and Re-enact Sections Five and Seven
of an Act to Regulate and Define the Jurisdiction of the County and
Circuit Courts, to Prescribe the Number of Terms of the Circuit Court,
and to Fix the Pay of County Judges.

In force April 2, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections five and seven of an act to regulate and define the
jurisdiction of the county and circuit courts, to prescribe the
number of terms of the circuit courts, and to fix the pay of
county judges, passed March, eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 5. All causes at law and in chancery pending in the county
court on the day this act takes effect, of which said court has
no jurisdiction under this act, shall be removed to the circuit
court for such county; and the clerk of the county court is
hereby directed to deliver to the clerk of the circuit court for
such county the original papers of all such causes at law and
in chancery so removed, and, when either party to the suit
requires it, copies of all rules and orders made in such causes,
and not found in the original papers, and a statement of the
costs incurred by each party therein, and he shall enter on the
record-book of the county-court the disposition made of such
causes; and the clerk of the circuit court is hereby directed to
receive and file in the office of his said court the papers so re-
moved, and the said causes shall stand in all respects as they
stood in the county court, and like proceedings shall be had
and process issued as if the said causes had been originally
commenced in the circuit court. The cost of such removal
shall be borne equally by both parties to the suit.

§ 7. The judge of the county court shall be privileged (if a
licensed lawyer) to appear as attorney-at-law in any case not
pending in his court, or which cannot be carried into or has not
been taken from his court on an appeal.

2. This act shall be in force on and from August first,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three. ,