Chap. 852.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7 of an act entitled
‘An act to establish @ corporation court for the city of Bristol, in Washington
county,” approved February 12, 1890.

Approved March 3, 1898,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two and seven of an act entitled “An act to establish a corporation court
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for the city of Bristol, in Washington county,’’ approved February the
twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 2. The said court shall have concurrent original jurisdiction with
the circuit court of said city 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.

§ 7. That all suits, actions, motions or other proceedings now pending
in the circuit court of W ashington county which if instituted subse-
quent to the passage of this act would have come within the Jurisdic-
tion of the circuit or corporation, court of the city of Bristol. shall be
forthwith removed to the circuit or corporation court of the city of
Bristol, whereupon such suit, action, motion or other proceedings shall
be proceeded in, heard and determined by the said circuit or corporation
court of the city of Bristol as if it had been originally brought therein,
and the said circuit court of Washington county shall not have eoncur-
rent jurisdiction with either the circuit or corporation court after the
passave of this act.

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