Chap. 366.—An ACT to amend and reenact sections 4 and 5 of an act approved
February 12, 1894, entitled “an act to establish the law and equity court of the
city of Richmond, and to define its jurisdiction and relation to the other courts
of said city.”

Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section:
four and five of an act approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, entitled “an act to establish the law and equity court of the
city of Richmond and to define its jurisdiction and relation to the other
courts of said city,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 4. The sheriff of the city of Richmond shall be the officer of said law
and equity court; he shall attend the same and do and perform the duties.
have and exercise the powers, receive the compensation, and be liable to
the penalties of a sheriff in relation to a circuit court.

There shall be a clerk of said law and equity court appointed or elected
as provided in section three thousand and eighty-two of the Code of Vir-
ginia, who shall perform similar duties, be liable to the same penalties.
and be governed by the same general laws as a clerk of a circuit court,
and receive like fees and emoluments and the same compensation as the
clerk of the circuit court of the city of Richmond.

The judge of said court shall appoint as many commissioners in chan-
cery for said court as he may deem necessary, not exceeding five in num-
ber; and a commissioner in chancery of the chancery court of the city of
Richmond may be appointed a commissioner in chanccry of the said law
and equity court.

The rules in the clerk’s office of said law and equity court shall be held
in the same manner and governed by the same general laws as rules in a
circuit court are or may hereafter be held or governed, and the clerk of
said court shall put upon the docket thereof, as soon as matured at rules
and in the order in which they are matured, all cases and motions ma-
tured during the terms of said court.

$5. The salary of the judge of said law and equity court shall be such
as is fixed, and shall be paid in the manner prescribed by law.

§ 6. This act shall be in force from its passage.