Chap. 515.—An ACT to provide for the transfer of causes at law, presentments,
informations, and indictments for misdemeanors and felonies pending in the
county courts of the Commonwealth to the circuit courts of such counties.

Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all causes
at law, and all presentments, informations, and indictments for felonies
or misdemeanors pending in the county courts of the Commonwealth on
the thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and four, shall be re
moved to the circuit court of the respective counties, and the clerk of the
county court is hereby directed to deliver to the circuit court for such
county the original papers, complete, of all such causes, and all present-
ments, informations, and indictments for misdemeanors or felonies so
removed, with the copies of all rules and orders made not contained in
the original papers, and shall enter on the order book of the county court
the disposition made of such causes, and the clerk of the circuit court is
hereby directed to receive and file in the office of his said court the papers
so removed, and the said causes, indictments, and presentments shall
stand in all respects as they stood in the county court, and like proceed-
ings shall be had and process issued as if said causes, presentments, and
indictments had been originally commenced in the circuit court. The
cost of such removals shall be borne by the Commonwealth.

2. This act shall be in force on and after the first day of February,
nineteen hundred and four.