Chap. 354.—An ACT to create a circuit court for Radford city.

Approved February 17, 1898

1. Be it enacted by the veneral assembly of Virginia, That there shall
be a circuit court in and for the city of Radford which shall be held by
the judge of the Fourteenth judicial circuit, in the courthouse of the said
city of Radford. - '

2. That the said circuit court and the judge thereof shall have the
same jurisdiction, duties and powers within the limits of said city that
the said several circuit courts of this commonwealth have within their
respective counties and corporations. The sergeant, his deputies, the
clerk and his deputies of the corporation court of said city shall per-
form their respective functions and duties for the said cireuit court, and
shall receive the same remuneration and be subject to the same penal-
ties as other sergeants and clerks of the circuit courts of this common-
wealth.

3. The terms of court, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be
held at such tines as may, from time to time, be fixed upon by the
judge thereof.

4. That all suits, actions, motions or other proceedings now pending
in the circuit court of Montgomery county, which, if instituted subse-
quent to the passage of this act, would have come within the jurisdic-
tion of the circuit court of the citv of Radford, shall be forthwith re-
moved to the circuic court of the city of Radford; whereupon such suit,
action, motion or other proceeding shall be proceeded in, heard and de-
termined by the said circuit court of the city of Radford, as if it had
been originally brought therein.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage,