Chap. 170.—An ACT to establish a Corporation Court for the city of
Roanoke.

Approved February 25, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
there shall be established for the city of Roanoke a corpora-
tion or hustings court, to be held by the city judge of said
city on the first Monday in each month, and for a term not
to exceed twenty days in each month: provided that no term
shall be held in the month of August.

2. The said court shall have concurrent original jurisdiction
with the circuit court to hear and determine all cases at law
and in chancery respectively, arising within said city, or
within one mile of the corporate limits thereof, except civil
causes to recover property or money not of greater value or
ainount than twenty dollars, exclusive of interest.

3. The said court shall, within the limits aforesaid, have
jurisdiction to hear and determine all motions, matters and
things made cognizable by any statute authorized by law to
be done by or in the circuit or corporation courts of the com-
monwealth.

4. The said court shall, within the limits aforesaid, have
the same jurisdiction as the circuit courts, and the same
jurisdiction as the county courts over all offences committed
within said limits; and also such jurisdiction over such
otfences as ig conferred by general law upon corporation
courts. The jurisdiction conferred by this section shall be
exclusive of all other courts, except that all indictments, pre-
scntments, and informations pending in the county and circuit
courts of Roanoke county, shall be proceeded with in the
courts of said county until the same are finally concluded and
ended. .

5. The said court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction
over all matters of probate and record arising within the
limits of said city.
6. The said court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction
to hear and determine all cases at law or in chancery, and
over all matters and things which may become the subject
matter of suits or proceedings in court arising under the char-
ter of said city, or other laws relating thereto, and of all
cases of contested elections in said city.

7 The said court and the judge thereof, in vacation, shall
possess the same jurisdiction and powers, and shall perform
the same duties as are vested in and imposed upon other cor-
poration courts, and the judges thereof, by any statute rela-
ting to corporation courts, or by the general law.

8 The circuit court of Roanoke county shall continue to
have concurrent jurisdiction, to hear and determine all cases
at law and in chancery, except in such eases, as by the pro-
visions of this act, exclusive Jurisdiction is given to the said
corporation court. All cases and proceedings at law or in
chancery now pending in said circuit court, shall be proceeded
with in said circuit court until the same are finally concluded
or ended, unless the same shall be removed to said corporation
court by consent of parties in interest.

9. The judge of the said corporation court shall receive an
annual salary of not less than seven hundred and fitty dollars,
nor more than one thousand dollars, to be fixed by the council
of the city of Roanoke, to be paid as provided by law; and
the said judge shall qualify by taking the oath required by
law within thirty days after he receives his commission; said
oath to be taken before any notary public or any clerk of a
court of record.

10. The said court and the judge thereof shall have the
same jurisdiction and powers, and shall perform the same
duties in the summoning and impanneling of grand juries
and other juries civil and criminal, as are now by law
vested in and imposed on the circuit and corporation courts
of this commonwealth and the judges thereof.

11. It shall be lawful for the judge of the said court, after
he has qualified, to appoint a clerk, a commonwealth’s attor-
ney, and a sergeant, who shall hold their offices until their
successors have been elected and qualified.

12. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

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