Chap. 241.—An ACT to Amend Sections 7, 8, 9, and 11 of Chapter 161 of
the Code of Virginia, as to Places of Holding Courts, &c.

Approved March 29, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections
seven, eight, nine, and eleven of chapter one hundred and
sixty-one of the Code of Virginia, (eighteen hundred and
sixty), be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$7. The circuit court for the county of Henrico shall sit
in the city of Richmond at the courthouse of said county, or
at the place where the circuit court for the city of Richmond
is held. The circuit court of Spotsylvania county may sit at
the courthouse thereof, or at the courthouse in Fredericks-
burg, in conformity with the laws now in force. Every other
circuit, county or corporation court for any county or corpo-
ration, shall be held at the courthouse of such county or cor-
poration, except where some other place is prescribed by law
or lawfully appointed.

Ҥ8. When the courthouse prescribed for a circuit court to
sit in, cannot from any cause, be occupied by it, or has been
destroyed, such court shall hold its session at such place as
may be appointed by its order, or by the warrant of the judge
thereof in vacation, directed to the clerk, and if none be so
appointed, at such place as may be appointed by the county or
corporation court under the following section.

Ҥ 9. Any county or corporation court may appoint some
other place than the courthouse thereof to be, and the same
shall be, the place of session of the said court, from a certain
day to be specified in the order, until thereafter the courthouse
can be occupied, or if the courthouse shall have been destroyed,
until another shall have been built and fitted for its occupation,
or until some other place shall be appointed by the court.

Ҥ 11. Whenever, by reason of the destruction of any
building in which the court of appeals or the special court of
appeals is appointed to be held, or by reason of the place of
session being in possession of a public enemy, or infected with
contagious disease, it shall seem to the governor necessary, he
shall, by proclamation, appoint a place at which such court shall
be held so long as such reason may continue, and when the cir-
cumstances require it, it may postpone the time for holding the
court.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.