Chap. 341.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5912 of the Code of Virginia,
1919, relating to the courts of the city of Richmond. [H B 289]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-nine hundred and twelve of the Code of Virginia, nineteen hun-
dred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5912. Courts of the city of Richmond enumeration;
judges to act for another in event of absence or disability.—The con-
solidation of the cities of Richmond and Manchester having been
lawfully effected under the name of the city of Richmond, there shall
be for said city the following courts:

(1) The hustings court of the city of Richmond.

(2) The hustings court of the city of Richmond, part two.

(3) The chancery court of the city of Richmond.

(4) The law and equity court of the city of Richmond.

(5) The law and equity court of the city of Richmond, part two.

(6) The circuit court of the city of Richmond.

Provided, the judges of the foregoing courts and any other courts
of record for the city of Richmond which may be hereafter created,
may, during the absence or inability of any one of the judges of the
said courts, to sit during the whole term, or to sit in any particular
case or discharge any official duty required by law, upon the request
of the judge who is unable to act or the direction of the governor,
hold the said term or any part thereof or discharge any official duty
required by law of the judge in whose place he is acting; and provided,
further, that no extra compensation shall be allowed the judge of any
of the said courts of the city of Richmond when holding court or
otherwise acting for some other judge of the city of Richmond.

2. That all acts or parts of acts insofar as the same conflict here-
with be, and the same are hereby repealed.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.