Chap. 660.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an
act to establish a corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington
county, approved February 12, 1890.

Approved February 27, 1900. :

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act entitled an act to establish a corporation court for the
city of Bristol, in Washington county, approved February twelfth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 4. The said court shall, within the limits aforesaid, have the same
jurisdiction as the circuit courts, and the same jurisdiction as the
county court over all offenses committed within said limits, and shall
have such original concurrent and appellate jurisdiction conferred by
law on the county courts of the commonwealth of all matters arising
within said city or within one mile of the corporate limits of said
city, and also such jurisdiction over such offenses as is conferred by
the general law upon corporation courts, and said court shall also have
jurisdiction over all matters for and against corporations doing business
in said city and having property or debts owing to them therein where-
ever the cause of action may have arisen, and process may be served on
any agent of such corporation found within jurisdiction of said court.
The jurisdiction conferred by this section shall be exclusive of all other
courts as to criminal matters, except that all indictments, presentments,
and informations pending in county and circuit court of Washington
county shall be proceeded within the courts of said county until the
same are finally concluded and ended.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.