CHAP. 85.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section three thousand and
fiftv-seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved December 26, 1903, and as further amended and re-
enacted by an act approved March 9, 1906, and as further amended
and re-enacted by an act approved February 29, 1908, and as further
amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1908, and also
to amend and re-enact section three thousand and fifty-nine of the
Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
December 26, 19038, entitled an act to repeal sections, three thousand
and sixty-three, three thousand and sixty-five, three thousand and sixty-
six, three thousand and sixty-seven, of the Code of Virginia, and to
amend and re-enact sections three thousand fifty-six, three thousand
and fiftv-seven, three thousand and fiftv-eight, three thousand and
fiftv-nine, three thousand and sixty and three thousand and sixty-two
of the Code. as heretofore amended, and as further amended by an act
approved February 23, 1904, and as further amended by an act
approved March 15, 1904, and as further amended by’an act approved
March 14, 1906, as to the times for holding regular terms of the courts
in the several circuits, and giving jurisdiction to courts during recess,
whether adjourned for the purpose of opening or holding another term,
or part or portion there or otherwise, which the judges of the circuit
courts now have in vacation, and as further amended and re-enacted
by an act approved March 14, 1908, and as further amended by an act
approved February 26, 1910.

Approved March 4, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three thousand and fifty-seven of the Code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section three thousand and fifty-seven of the Code
of Virginia, approved December twenty-sixth, nineteen hun-
dred and three, and as further amended by an act approved
March ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and as further amended
and re-enacted by an act approved February twenty-ninth, nine-
teen hundred and eight, and as further amended and re-enacted
by an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and
eight, and section three thousand and fifty-nine of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by an act approved December twenty-sixth,
nineteen hundred and three, entitled an act to repeal sections
three thousand and sixty-three, three thousand and sixty-five,
three thousand and sixty-six and three thousand and sixty-seven
of the Code of Virginia, and to amend and re-enact sections
three thousand and fifty-six, three thousand and fifty-seven,
three thousand and fifty-eight, three thousand and fifty-nine,
three thousand and sixty, and three thousand and sixty-two of
the Code, as heretofore amended, and as further amended by an
act approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four,
and as further amended by an act approved March fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and four, and as further amended by an act
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, and as
further amended by an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen
hundred and eight, and as further amended by an act approved
February twenty-six, nineteen hundred and ten, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$3057. Judicial circuits: The State shall be divided into
thirty-one judicial circuits, as follows:

Sub-section 1. The county of Norfolk shall constitute the first
circuit.

Sub-section 2. The counties of Nansemond, Southampton,
city of Suffolk and the city of Norfolk shall constitute the second
circuit.

Sub-section 3. The counties of Prince George, Surry, Sussex,
Greenesville and Brunswick shall constitute the third circuit.

Sub-section 4. The counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Not-
toway, Amelia, Powhatan and the city of Petersburg, shall consti-
tute the fourth circuit.

Sub-section 5. The counties of Prince Edward, Cumberland,
Appomattox, Charlotte and Buckingham shall constitute the fifth
circuit.
Sub-section 6. The counties of Lunenburg, Mecklenburg,
Halifax, Campbell, and the city of Lynchburg shall constitute the
sixth circuit.

Sub-section 7. The counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick,
and the city of Danville shall constitute the seventh circuit.

Sub-section 8. The counties of Madison, Greene and Albe-
marle shall constitute the eighth circuit.

Sub-section 9. The counties of Culpeper, Orange, Louisa and
Goochland shall constitute the ninth circuit.

Sub-section 10. The county of Henrico and the city of Rich-
mond shall constitute the tenth circuit.

Sub-section 11. The county of Elizabeth City and the city of
Newport News shall constitute the eleventh circuit.

Sub-section 12. The counties of Richmond, Northumberland,
Westmoreland, Lancaster and Essex shall constitute the twelfth
circuit.

Sub-section 13. The counties of Gloucester, Mathews, King
and Queen, King William and Middlesex shall constitute the thir-
teenth circuit.

Sub-section 14. The counties of New Kent, Charles City,
York, Warwick, James City, and the city of Williamsburg, shall
constitute the fourteenth circuit.

Sub-section 15. The counties of King George, Stafford, Spot-
sylvania, Caroline and Hanover shall constitute the fifteenth
circuit.

Sub-section 16. The counties of Prince William, Fairfax and
Alexandria, and the city of Alexandria shall constitute the six-
teenth circuit.

Sub-section 17. The counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren
and Shenandoah shall constitute the seventeenth circuit.

Sub-section 18. The counties of Augusta, Highland and Rock-
bridge shall constitute the eighteenth circuit.

Sub-section 19. The counties of Bath, Alleghany, Craig and
Botetourt, and the city of Clifton Forge shall constitute the nine-
teenth circuit. |

Sub-section 20. The counties of Roanoke, Montgomery, Floyd,
and the city of Roanoke shall constitute the twentieth circuit.

Sub-section 21. The counties of Pulaski, Carroll, Wythe and
Grayson shall constitute the twenty-first circuit.

Sub-section 22. The counties of Bland, Tazewell and Giles
shall constitute the twenty-second circult.

Sub-section 23. The counties of Washington and Smyth shall
constitute the twenty-third circuit.

Sub-section 24. The counties of Lee, Wise and Dickenscn
shall constitute the twenty-fourth circuit.

Sub-section 25. The counties of Rockingham and Page shal:
constitute the twenty-fifth circuit.

Sub-section 26. The counties of Rappahannock, Fauquier and
Loudoun shall constitute the twenty-sixth judicial circuit.
Sub-section 27. The counties of Buchanan, Russell and Scott
shall constitute the twenty-seventh circuit.

Sub-section 28. The counties of Isle of Wight and Princess
Anne and the city of Portsmouth shall constitute the twenty-
eighth circuit.

Sub-section 29. The counties of Amherst, Nelson and Flu-
vanna shall constitute the twenty-ninth circuit. .

Sub-section 30. The counties of Bedford and Franklin shall
constitute the thirtieth circuit.

Sub-section 31. The counties of Accomac and Northampton
shall constitute the thirty-first circuit.

§3059. The commencement and number of their terms.—
Unless otherwise herein provided, there shall be held in each of
the cities of the commonwealth two terms of the circuit court of
such city in each year, and in each of the counties there shall
be held bi-monthly terms of the circuit court of such county,
four of which terms in those counties in which more than
four terms are provided, to be designated by the judge thereof,
shall be known as quarterly terms, at which all civil cases for
which juries may be required shall be tried, unless the judge of
any circuit shall enter of record that juries shall be summoned
to other than the quarterly terms for the trial of civil cases. At
any of the said terms all criminal and chancery causes shall be
tried, but the judge of the court may, in any county in which
more than five terms are provided, by an order to be entered on
the common law order book of said court, omit one of the terms
thereof during each year, unless the public business shall require
that all of the said terms be held for the proper transaction of
business.

Until otherwise provided by law, the time for holding the
said terms in the said counties and cities shall be as follows:

Provided, that any term of a circuit court for any of the
counties or cities of any circuit may be continued by the judge
thereof by adjournment until after the beginning of the term of
the court for any other county or city of such circuit. And when
such adjournment is until after the beginning of a term of the
court for another county, the judge of said court shall have the
same power during said recess to perform any duty and to trans-
act any bugjness which is authorized by law to be done by judges
of the circuit court in vacation; but no term of the court shall be
so continued beyond the day fixed by law for the beginning of the
next regular term of the court for the county or city of the cir-
cuit whose term is so extended.

First Circait.

§3059a. Norfolk.—The first Monday in January, February,
March, April May, June, July, October, November and December.
§3059b. Nansemond.—On the second Monday in January
March, May, July and October.

Southampton.—On the third Monday in January, March
May, July and October.

City of Norfolk.—On the fourth Monday in January, Feb.
ruary, March, April, June, October and November, and thirc
Monday in September.

City of Suffolk——On Tuesday after the fourth Monday ir
February, June, September and November.

Third Circuit.

§$3059c. Prince George.—Third Tuesday in January, May,
November, and July sixth.

Surry.—Fourth Tuesday in January, March, May, September
and November, and July twelfth.

Sussex.—Second Tuesday in January, March, May, Septem-
ber and November, and July second.

Greenesville.—First Tuesday in February, April, June, Octo-
ber and December.

Brunswick.—Fourth Tuesday in February, April, June and
October, and on first Tuesday in September.

Fourth Cireutt.

$3059d. Amelia.—The fourth Monday in March, June and
September, and first Monday in January.

Chesterfield.—The second Monday in February, May, August
and November.

Dinwiddie.—The third Monday in March, June, September
and December.

Nottoway.—The first Thursday in March, June, September
and December.

Powhatan. "Tuesday after the fourth Monday in February,
May, July and October.

City of Petersburg.—First Monday in April and October.

Fifth Cirenit.

$3059e. Appomattox.—F irst day in April, June, October and
December.

Buckingham.—Tuesday after second Monday in March, May,
Seitember and November.

Charlotte.—First Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

Cumberland.—Tuesday after the fourth Monday in January,
April, September and November.
Prince Edward.—Tuesday after the third Monday in Janu-
ary, April, July, September and November.

Sizth Circuit.

§3059f. Lunenburg.—Second Monday in April, June, October,
and third Monday in January.

Mecklenburg.—Third Monday in February, April, June,
August, October and December.

Halifax.—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

Campbell.—Second Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

City of Lynchburg.—Second Monday in February, third
Monday in May and September, and second Monday in Decem-
ber.

Seventh Circuit.

§3059¢g. Pittsylvania.—Third Monday in January, March,
May, July, September and November.
Henry.—First Monday in January, April, July and October.
Patrick.—First Monday in March, first Monday in June, first
Monday in September and first Monday in December.
6 city of Danville-—April twenty-fifth and October the twenty-
fth.

Bighth Cirewit.

§3059h. Albermarle.—First Monday in February, April,
June, August, October and December.

Madison.—Second Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

Greene.—Third Monday in February, April, June, October
and December. |

Ninth Circuit.

§3059i1. Culpeper.—Third Monday in March, June, Septem-
ber, and first Monday in December.

Goochland.—Second Monday in February, April, June, Au-
gust, October and December.

Orange.—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

Louisa.—Second Monday in January, March, May, July, Sep-
tember and November.

Tenth Circuit.

§3059j. Henrico.—First Monday in January, April, July
and October.
City of Richmond.—First Monday in February, May anc
November.

Eleventh Circuit.

§3059k. Elizabeth City.—The first Monday in February
April, June, August, October and December.

City of Newport News.—The first Monday in January
March, May, July, and second in September and November.

Twelfth Circuit.

§3059]1. Richmond.—First Monday in January, March
May, July, September and November.

Northumberland.—Second Monday in February, April, June
August, October and December.

Lancaster.—Third Monday in January, March, May, July
September and November.

Westmoreland.—Fourth Monday in February, Apri], June
August, Cctober and December.

icssex._-Third Monday in February, April, Jure, August
October and December.

- Thirteenth Circuit.

§3059m. Gloucester.—First Monday in January, March
May, July, September and November.

Mathews.—Third Monday in January, March, May, July
September and November.

King and Queen.—Second Tuesday in February, April, June
August, October and December.

King William.—First Tuesday in February, April, June
August, October and December.

Middlesex.—Tuesday after fourth Monday in January, Marck
May, July, September and November.

Fourteenth Circutt.

$3059n. New Kent.—Fourth Tuesday in January, Marct
May, July, September and November.

Charles City.—Third Thursday in February, April, June
August, October and December.

York.—First Tuesday in February, April, June, August
October and December.

Warwick.—Second Monday in January, March, May, Jul;
September and November.

City of Williamsburg and James City.—Second Monday i:
February, April, June, August, October and December.
Fifteenth Circutt.

§30590. King George.—First Monday in January, March
May, July, September and November.

Stafford.—Second Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

Spotsylvania.—First Monday in February, April, June,
August, October and December.

Caroline-—Second Monday in February, April, June, Au-
gust, October and December.

Hanover.—Third Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

Sixteenth Circuit.

§3059p. Prince William.—First Monday in February, April,
June, August, October and December.

Fairfax.—Third Monday in January, March, May, July, Sep-
tember and November.

Alexandria.—Third Monday in February, April, June, Octo-
ber, and second Monday in December.

City of Alexandria.—First Monday in January, March,
May, July, and second Monday in September and first Monday
in November.

Seventeenth Circuit.

§3059q. Frederick.—First Monday in February, April,
June, August, October and December.

Clarke.—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July, Sep-
tember and November.

Warren.—First Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

Shenandoah.—Second Monday in January, March, May, July,
September and November.

Eighteenth Circutt.

§3059r. Rockbridge.—First Monday in February, May,
September and November.

Augusta.—Fourth Monday in February, and May, First Mon-
day in October, and Fourth Monday in November.

Highland.—Fourth Tuesday in April, July tenth and Octcber
tenth.

Nineteenth Circuit.

§3059s. Alleghany.—Fifteenth day of January, April, July

and October.
Bath.—Twentieth day of March, June, September and No-

vember.
Botetourt.—March first, June first, September first and ]
cember first.

Craig.—Tenth day of February, May, September and !
vember.

The City of Clifton Forge.—First day of February, M.
July and October.

Twentieth Circuit.

§3059t. City of Roanoke.—Fifteenth day of March, M
September and December.

Montgomery.—February fifth and first day of May, Ju
October and December.

Roanoke.—First day of J anuary, April, June, September a
November.

Floyd.—The eighteenth day of February, Sixteenth day
April, July and October.

Twenty-first Circuit.

$3059u. Wythe.—Second Monday in January, April, th
Monday in July and October.

Pulaski.—Third Monday in February and second Monc
in November, first Monday in May and September.

Carroll.—Second Monday in March, and first Monday
December, third Monday in May and September.

Grayson.—Fourth Monday in March and November, fi
Monday in June and October.

Twenty-Second Circuit.

$3059v. Giles.—Tuesday after fourth Mondays in Mar
June and October.

Bland.—Second Monday in March and July, third Monc
in October.

Tazewell.—Third Monday in February, fourth Monday
May, August and November.

The judge may designate one of the terms of court of Ta
well county, at which enly criminal cases shall be tried.

Twenty-Third Circuit.
$3059w. Washington.—Fourth Monday in January, Mar
May, September and November.
Smyth.—First Monday in January, March, September a
Nov ember, and first Monday in May.
Twenty-Fourth Circuit.

$3059x. Lee.—Second Monday in February and first M
day in May, September and December.
Wise.—First Monday in January and Aprif and second Mon-
day in July and October.

Dickenson.—Tuesday after second Monday in March, first
Monday in July, Tuesday after the fourth Monday in Septem-
ber, and second Monday in November.

Twenty-Fifth Circuit.

§3059y. Rockingham.—Third Monday in January, March,
May, July, September and November.

Page.—Third Monday in February, April, June, August, Oc-
tober and December.

Twenty-Sizth Circuit,

§3059z. Fauquier.—Fourth Monday in January, March,
May, July, September and November.

Loudoun.—Second Monday in February, April, June, Au-
gust, October and December.

Rappahannock.—Second Monday in January, March, May,
July, September and October.

Twenty-Seventh Circuit.

§3059aa. Scott.—Tuesday after fourth Monday in Janu-
ary, Tuesday after third Monday in March, and June and Tues-
day after fourth Monday in September.

Russell.—Tuesday after third Monday in February, Tues-
day after first Monday in May, September and December.

Buchanan.—Tuesday after third Monday in April, Tues-
day after fourth Monday in July, and Tuesday after third Mon-
day in November.

Twenty-Eighth Circuit.

§3059bb. Isle of Wight.—First Monday in February, April,
June, October and December.

City of Portsmouth.—Fourth Monday in February, March,
May, June, September and November.

Princess Anne.—Third Monday in January, March, May,
July, September and October.

Twenty-Ninth Circuit.

§3059cc. Amherst.—Second Monday in February, April,
June, August, October and December.

Fluvanna.—Fourth Monday in February, April, June,
August, October and December.

Nelson.—Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July, Sep-
tember and November.
§3059dd. Bedford.—January tenth, March first, May first,
July first, October first, December first.

Franklin.—First Monday in February, April, June, Septem-
ber, November.

Thirty-First Circuit.

Sec. 3059ee. Accomac.—The first Monday in February,
April, June, October and December.

Northampton.—The second Monday in January, March,
May, July, September and November.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, are to
that extent hereby repealed.

3. An emergency existing which makes immediate action
necessary this act shall be in force from its passage.