Chap. 542.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3054 of the code of Virgini:
in relation to the terms of the corporation courts, and at what terms civil an
criminal cases shall be tried therein.

Approved February 28, 1898.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section thre
thousand and fifty-four of the code of Virginia be amended and re
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3054. The judge of every such corporation court may, from time t
time change the day for the commencement of the terms thereof, or an.
of them. The clerk of such court, within thirty days after such change
shall send a copy of the order making it, to the clerk of the house ¢
delegates, and if he fail to do so, shall forfeit fifty dollars. The judg
of said court may also select the terms at which he will try erimina
vases, and he may designate four or more terms of such court for th
trial of civil cases in which juries are required, and thesame terms ma‘
be designated for the trial of both civil and criminal cases; and there
after, until otherwise ordered, all cases cognizable in such court in whic!
juries are required, except criminal cases, and cases of forcible entry anc
unlawful detainer shall be tried only at such terms as are so designated
provided, however, that the said court shall, at any term hear and deter
mine any: action or motion ex-contractu, where the defendant does no
appear and demand ls trial by jury.