Chap. 204.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact section 6 of chapter 155
of the Code of Virginia, relative to the Jurisdiction of the Chancery
Court of the City of Richmond.

Approved April 15, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section six
of chapter one hundred and fifty-five of the Code of Virginia
of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be re-enacted and
amended so as to read as follows:

Ҥ6. The chancery court of the city of Richmond shall
exercise exclusively all jurisdiction now vested in circuit or
corporation courts concerning the probate and recordation of
wills, the appointment, qualification, and removal of fiducia-
ries, and the settlement of their accounts; the docketing of
judgments, the recordation in the mode prescribed by law of
deeds and other papers required by law to be recorded, and
shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all suits and proceedings
in chancery cognizable by law in any circuit court of the
commonwealth. And the said court and the judge thereof,
respectively, shall have the same jurisdiction and powers,
and perform the same duties which, by the provisions of
chapter seventy-six, section forty-six of chapter eighty-two,
section thirteen of chapter one hundred and twenty-three,
chapter one hundred anal twenty-five, sections eighteen, nine-
teen, and twenty-six of chapter one hundred and fifty-five,
section six of chapter one hundred and sixty, sections seven
and eight of chapter one hundred and fifty-seven, chapter
one hundred and sixty-four, sections three and six of chapter
one hundred and seventy-one, section two of chapter one
hundred and seventy-three, section eight of chapter one hun-
dred and seventy-four, and chapter one hundred and seventy-
five of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, are
vested in and devolved upon the circuit courts of the state
and the judges thereof, respectively. And the aforesaid stat-
utes and all others now in force, or which may be hereafter
enacted, devolving any duty or conferring any power or ju-
risdiction upon the circuit courts, or the judges thereof re-
spectively, shall be construed as including the chancery
court of the city of Richmond and the judge thereof respec-
tively, except as to matters of common law or criminal ju-
risdiction; and all acts heretofore done, and proceedings
heretofore had by said chancery court or the judge thereof,
under and by virtue of any statute, except as aforesaid, are
hereby declared to be as lawful and valid as if such acts and
proceedings had been done or performed by a circuit court
or a circuit judge. And the said chancery court and the
judge thereof respectively, shall have the same power as a
circuit court or a circuit judge to admit to bail, award writs
of habeas corpus, quo warrants, mandamus and probibition.
During the absence of the judge of said chancery court, or
the inability of said judge from any cause to hold a term of
his court, or to sit in any particular case, or discharge any
duty required by law, the said term may be held, or said
cause may be tried, or the said duty may be performed by
any circuit judge, or by the judge of the hustings court of
the city of Richmond: provided, however, that no extra com-
pensation shall be allowed therefor. The rules in the clerk’s
office of the chancery court shall be held in the same man-
ee the rules in a circuit court are or may hereafter be
e ;