Chap. 264.—An ACT to re-enact and amend clause 3 of an act of the general
assembly of Virginia entitled an act to establish a court of law and
chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, which was approved March
10, 1010. (H. B. 244.)

Approved March 25, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
clause three of an act entitled an act to establish a court of law and
chancery for the city of Roanoke, Virginia, which was approved
March tenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be re-enacted and amended
as follows:

3. But the said court of law and chancery shall have no jurisdic-
tion of the following matters, which shall remain as heretofore in
the corporation court of said city :

Presentments, indictments and cases for offense, actions and
proceedings to enforce the payment of fines and penalties, except
those conferred by law exclusively upon the police justice of said
city or justices of the peace; questions, powers and duties arising out
of the laws for the assessment and collection of taxes; suits, ques-
tions, powers and duties arising out of the lccal option laws and the
laws regulating the license and sale of ardent spirits; questions,
powers, duties and proceedings arising out of the election laws and
contested electicns, appeals, removals from the trial justice of said
city, the appointment and removal cf officers conferred by law upon
the corporation court, the docketing of judgments and recordation
in the mode prescribed by law of deeds and other writings author-
ized or required by law to be recorded. And the said corporation
court, and the judge thereof in vacation, shall retain all the pow-
ers and jurisdiction possessed by the corporation court of the city
of Roanoke, and discharge all the duties devolving upon said cor
poration court of said city as of the date of the passage of this
act, except such as are herein conferred upon the ccurt of law and
chancery.