CHAP. 330.—An ACT in relation to the hustings court, part two, of the
city of Richmond.

Approved March 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whereas, in the consolidation of the cities of Richmond and
Manchester, which has deen effected in the manner prescribed by
law, it was ordained that the corporation or hustings court of
Manchester should be permanently continued as a division of
the hustings court of the city of Richmond, with the added
designation part two, as prescribed by an act approved March
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by an act ap-
proved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and ten; and whereas,
It was ordained that the said court should continue with the
jurisdiction prescribed in the said act, and that the judge of
the said court, and the clerk and sergeant thereof, should be
continued as the judge, clerk and sergeant or bailiff of the court
so retained for the terms of office for which they were severally
elected as officers of the said corporation court of the city of
Manchester, and thereafter until the election and qualification
of their successors; the retention of said court as the hustings
court, part two, of the city of Richmond, with the jurisdiction
conferred by the said act, as amended by the act approved March
eleventh, nineteen hundred and ten, and all acts of the said
court and all judgments entered and decrees rendered, and pro-
ceedings of what kind soever had and done by said court since
the consolidation of the said cities be, and the same are hereby,
ratified, confirmed and declared to be valid and binding to all
intents and purposes whatsoever.

2. Ee it further enacted, that the said hustings court of the
city of Richmond, part two, shall hold a term in each mont)
except August, beginning on the third Monday in each month,
until changed in the manner provided by law, and continuing
until the business before it shall have been dispatched, and the
said court shall have full jurisdiction and power at any term to
summon juries, hear, try and dispose of all matters, civil and
criminal, transferred or apportioned to it by any other court of
the city of Richmond, as also of appeals taken to it from the
police court of the said city, or ordered by the police court to be
docketed in it, and of all matters, civil and criminal, brought
before it and arising within the corporate limits of the city of
Richmond, and shall have like jurisdiction of all such criminal
matters as arise within one mile of the said limits.

3. The city of Richmond shall provide one or more suitable
places within the said city in which the said court may hold its
sessions, and the clerk and sergeant or baliff of the court shall
attend at the place in which the court is sitting, and shall per-
form their several duties and be vested with their respective
powers and authorities as prescribed by law.

4. An emergency exists by reason of the necessity of giving
said court power to try cases, either civil or criminal, at any
term, and this act shall take effect from its passage.