Chap. 109.—An ACT to establish an additional city court for the city of Richmond,
Virginia. [H B 52]
Approved March 7, 1924.

Whereas, the city of Richmond, Virginia, now contains more than
thirty thousand inhabitants, and the public interest requires that there
should be established for the said city an additional court of record, and
that there should be an additional judge elected to hold such court and
perform such other duties as should be prescribed by law; now, therefore,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That from and
after the first day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, there
shall be in the said city of Richmond, Virginia, an additional city court,
to be a court of record, and to be separate and apart from the city courts
now existing in the said city of Richmond, and to be called and known as
the “law and equity court of the city of Richmond, part two,’ and that
there shall be an additional judge with like qualifications and to be
elected in the same manner as judges of the circuit courts of the State, to
pola the said court and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed

y law.

2. The term of office of the judge of the said court to be selected by
the general assembly hereunder shall commence on the first day of Feb-
ruary, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and shall end on the thirty-
first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and each term
thereafter shall be for eight years. The vacancy in said judgeship to
exist until the next regular session of the general assembly of Virginia
shall be filled by appointment by the governor, as provided by law for
filling such vacancies.

3. Thesaid court and the judge thereof shall have concurrently with
the law and equity court of the city of Richmond, and the judge thereof,
the same powers, duties and jurisdictions as the said law and equity
court of the city of Richmond, and the judge thereof, now have, and
which may hereafter be conferred by law.

4. There shall be five terms of said court in each year. The terms
of said court shall commence on the second Monday in February, April,
June, September and December, and shall continue so long as the busi-
ness of the court may require.

5. The rules of the said court shall be the same as are now or may
hereafter be prescribed for the circuit courts of the State. |

6. All provisions of law now in force, or hereafter to be enacted, re-
lating to petit juries, applicable to the circuit courts of the State and to
the judges thereof, shall apply to said court and the judge thereof.

7. The clerk of the law and equity court of the city of Richmond
shall also be the clerk of said court. He shall qualify as now prescribed
by law, and give bond for the faithful performance of his duties in both
courts, and if he qualifies before a judge in vacation, the bond shall be
certified to the law and equity court of the city of Richmond and to said
court, to be recorded in both courts.

8. The sheriff of the city of Richmond shall be the officer to attend
on said court and to execute its process and orders, subject to the pro-
visions of section 5924 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, or as may hereafter
be provided by law.

9. All provisions of law now in force and hereafter to be enacted
with reference to the judges of the circuit or city or corporation courts of
record holding other corporation courts, shall be applicable to the judge
thereof, both with respect to other judges holding said court and the
said judge holding other courts.

10. Any duty devolved, or power or jurisdiction conferred, or which
may hereafter be devolved or conferred by law on the law and equity
court of the city of Richmond, or the judge thereof, shall, unless other-
wise provided, be deemed to be also devolved and conferred on said
court and on the judge thereof, when relating to matters whereof the
said court is now, or may hereafter be given jurisdiction.

11. Appeals, writs of error and supersedeas from and to decrees,
judgments and orders of the said court or the judge thereof, shall be
taken and allowed as provided by law in respect to decrees, judgments
and orders taken from and to such decrees, judgments and orders of the
circuit and corporation courts, or the judges thereof, generally.

12. The salary of the judge of the said court shall be the same as
now and hereafter prescribed by law, to be paid to the judge of the law
and equity court of the city of Richmond.

13. The city of Richmond shall provide such room or rooms, and
such books, stationery, supplies and equipment as may be requisite for
the said court and the clerk’s office.