CHAP. 372.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2117 and 2118 of the Cod
of Virginia.

Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sectior
twenty-one hundred and seventeen and twenty-one hundred and eighteen
of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows :

§ 2117. Jurisdiction of circuit courts for counties over waters adja.
cent to the counties.—The circuit courts for the several counties adja.
cent to the waters in which any offense under this chapter is committed
shall have concurrent jurisdiction of every such offense, and the circuit
courts for the counties lying on waters bounding the State shall havc
concurrent jurisdiction of all such offenses committed on said waters, sc
far as the jurisdiction of this State extends.

§ 2118. Judges to charge grand juries—The judge of each circuit
and corporation court shall give in charge to every regular grand jury
thereaf the provisions of this chapter, so far as the same may be appli
cable to his county or corporation.

2. This act shall be in force on and after February first, nineteer
hundred and four.