Chap. 125.—An ACT to amend and re-enaet section 5905 of the Code of Vir-
gina. (S B 145}
Approved March 9, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-nine hundred and five of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5905. Corporation courts; cities of the first and second
class.—For the purpose of a judicial system, the following cities, which
as shown by the United States census of nineteen hundred and twenty,
or other census provided by law, contain ten thousand inhabitants or
more, to-wit: Alexandria, Charlottesville, Danville, Hopewell, Lynch-
burg, Newport News, Norfolk, Petersburg, Portsmouth, Richmond,
Roanoke and Staunton, are declared to be cities of the first class; and
all other cities in the State are declared to be cities of the second class.

The corporation or hustings courts established and existing the day
before this Code takes effect in each of the above named cities of the
first class, are continued with the same name under which they had
been previously known, provided that this court in the city of Roa-
noke, shall be known as the hustings court, however previously known.

The corporation courts established and existing the day before this
Code takes effect, in each of the following named cities of the second
class, to-wit: Bristol, Buena Vista, Fredericksburg, Radford and Win-
chester, are continued under the name of the corporation court of such
city, and shall be so known and held until the same shall be abolished
by the vote of the people of such city as provided in the Constitution.
Each of such courts shall be held by a judge with like qualification
and elected in the same manner as judges of the supreme court of
appeals. (Code eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, section thirty
hundred and fifty; nineteen hundred and two, three and four, page
six hundred and sixty-seven).