Chap. 80.—An ACT prescribing the jurisdiction of corporation courts in cities
in which there are two corporation courts and providing for the transfer of
certain cases from one court to the other. [S B 129]

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in all
cities of this State in which there has been or shall be established
two corporation courts, the corporation court last established in such
cities and the judge thereof shall have concurrently with the cor-
poration court first established in such cities and the judge thereof
the same powers, duties and jurisdiction as the corporation court
first established in such cities and the judge thereof now have and
which may hereafter be conferred by law, except in the following
matters, which shall remain as heretofore in the corporation court
first established in such cities or with the judge thereof:

All matters concerning the probate and recording of wills; the
appointment, qualification and removal of fiduciaries and the settle-
ment of their accounts ; the docketing of judgments ; the recording in
the mode prescribed by law of deeds and all other papers authorized
or required by law to be recorded; the appointment and removal
of members of the electoral board; all questions, powers and duties
pertaining to the appointment and removal of justices of the peace;
and all questions, powers and duties pertaining to the appointment
and removal of all other officers and officials.

2. Either of said corporation courts in such cities, on motion of
the attorney for the Commonwealth for such cities, or the attorney
for the accused, may, for good cause shown, or to equalize the work
of the two courts, transfer from one court to the other any case or
cases pending in either court in which the Commonwealth is a party;
and said courts may do likewise on motion of the city attorney for
such cities, with respect to cases pending in either of said courts for
violation of ordinances of such cities. An order shall be entered of
record of said transfers by both the court from which and to which
transferred, and when transferred, said cases shall stand in all respects
as they stood in the court from which they were transferred, and
like proceedings shall be had and process issued as if said cases had
been originally commenced in said court to which transferred.

3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to change or
affect in any manner the respective jurisdictions of the corporation
or hustings court, where two corporation or hustings courts now
exist, in cities containing more than one hundred and fifty thousand
inhabitants, as shown by the last United States census.

4. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from the
date of its passage.