Chap. 307.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to establish a corporation
court for the city of Buena Vista, approved February 19th, 1892.

Approved February 11, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act to
establish a corporation court for the city of Buena Vista, approved Feb-
ruary nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be, and the same is
§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
shall be established for the city of Buena Vista, a corporation or hustings
court, to be held by the judge of said city on the second Mondays in
February, April, June, August, October, and December, and for as
many days immediately after said second Mondays in each of said
months as may be necessary, not exceeding twenty days for any one
term ; but the Judge of said court may from time to time change the day
on which said court shall commence, and may in his discretion entirely
dispense with the term of court fixed for the month of August, or he
may designate some other month in which to hold said term. Should
the date for the commencement of said court be changed, it shall not
affect the number or duration of the terms thereof.

§ 2. The said court shall have concurrent original jurisdiction with
the circuit court of Rockbridge county 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 pro-
perty or money not of greater value or amount than twenty dollars,
exclusive of interest.

§ 3. The said court shall, within the limits aforesaid, have concurrent
Jurisdiction with the circuit court of Rockbridge county 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 commonwealth.

§ 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 offenses committed within one mile of the cor-
porate limits of said city, and exclusive jurisdiction of all offenses com-
mitted within the corporate limits of said city ; and also such jurisdiction
over such offenses as is conferred by general law upon corporation courts.
The jurisdiction conferred by this section shall be exclusive of all other
courts.

§ 5. The said court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over all
matters of probate and record arising within the limits of the said city
on and after the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

§ 6. The said court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction to hear
and determine all matters and things which may become the subject
matter of suits or proceedings in court arising under the charter of the
said city, or other laws relating thereto, and of all cases of contested
elections in said city, except so far as is otherwise provided in said
charter.

§ 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 corporation courts and the judge
thereof by any statute relating to corporation courts or by general law.

§ 8. The judge of said corporation court shall receive an annual sal-
ary Of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than four hundred
dollars, to be fixed by the council of the city of Buena Vista, to be paid
as provided by law; and the said judge shall qualify by taking the vath
required by law within thirty days after he receives his commission;
paid oath to be taken by any notary public or any clerk of any court of

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§ 9. The said court and the judge thereof shall have the same juris-
liction and powers and shall perform the same duties in summoning
and empaneling grand juries and other juries, civil and criminal, as are
now by law vested in and imposed on the circuit or corporation courts
i ths commonwealth and the judges thereof.

$10. It shall be lawful to elect or appoint as the judge of said court
a resident of some other county or corporation of this state, and such
non-resident may be the judge of a county or corporation court.

$11. The said corporation court, or the judge thereof in vacation,
shall have general control of the rooms necessary for said court and
clerk’s offices, and shall have the power to procure such stationery,
books, records, furniture and fixtures, at such cost as the judge may
deem necessary and proper for the use of said court, the same to be paid
for by order of the court out of the treasury of said city, except when
otherwise provided.

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

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