Chap. 11.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3055 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act approved December 12, 1903.

Approved February 8, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty hundred and fifty-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an
act approved December twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3055. Jurisdiction of corporation and city courts.—The several cor-
poration or hustings courts shall, within the territorial limits of the
cities for which they are established, have the same jurisdiction which the
circuit courts have in the counties for which they are established, and
for the appointment of electoral boards, as provided by section thirty-one
of the Constitution, and concurrently with the circuit courts they shall
also have jurisdiction to enforce police regulations, and over all offences
committed in any county within one mile of such city, and such other
jurisdiction as may be conferred upon them by law; but the provisions
of this section shall not apply to the courts of the city of Richmond, nor
to the law and chancery court of the city of Norfolk; and that all actions,
suits, chancery, or other proceedings and prosecutions now pending in
the said corporation or hustings courts under the laws formerly in force
shall be continued in said courts, and therein proceeded in, decided, and
disposed of, until the same shall be finally ended, as though the said act
of December twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, amending this sec-
tion, had never been enacted : provided, however, that nothing in this act
shall be construed as repealing an act entitled “an act to establish cor-
poration courts for the cities of Manchester and Winchester,” approved
April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventiy-four.

Whereas, doubts exist as to whether suits and proceedings pending in
the corporation courts, instituted under section three thousand and fifty-
five of the Code, can be heard and determined in said courts, this act,
which is intended to remove said doubts, is declared to be an emergency
act, and shall be in force from its passage.