Chap. 290.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5947 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the jurisdiction of the court of law and chancery of the
city of Roanoke. [H B 268]

Approved March 2], 1928

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

Section 5947. The said court of law and chancery shall have con-
current jurisdiction with the circuit court and the corporation court of
Roanoke in all matters concerning the probate and the recordation
of wills, the appointment, qualification and removal of fiduciaries and
the settlement of their accounts, and in granting and hearing writs of
mandamus, prohibition and quo warranto, or information in the nature
of quo warranto, and original and general jurisdiction with the circuit
and corporation courts of said city of all suits and proceedings in
chancery, of all such civil cases at law within said city, as are cognizable
by the circuit court or corporation court of Roanoke, including motions
to recover money, actions of forcible or unlawful entry and detainer,
distress warrants and attachments for rent.

And the said court, and the clerk thereof, shall, within the terr-
torial Jurisdiction thereof, have the same powers and be charged with
the same duties relative to the taxation of inheritances as are conferred
and laid upon the chancery court of the city of Richmond, and the
law and chancery court of the city of Norfolk. and the clerks of
such courts, by section forty-four of an act of the general assembly
entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and
public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt, and to
provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section one hundred
and eighty-nine of the Constitution, approved April sixteenth, nine-
teen hundred and three, and acts amendatory thereof. And the said
court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall have the same powers to
award injunctions and writs of habeas corpus, and admit to bail, as
are now or may hereafter be conferred upon the circuit or corporation
courts of this Commonwealth, or the judges thereof in vacation, and
shall have the same jurisdiction of such matters and of all other matters
cognizable in said court which are now or may hereafter be granted
to the judges of the circuit or corporation courts in vacation in like
matters.

Any duty devolved or power of jurisdiction conferred, or which
may hereafter be devolved or conferred by law on the circuit courts
of this Commonwealth, or the judges thereof, respectively, shall, unless
otherwise provided, be deemed to be also devolved or conferred on
the said court of law and chancery of the city of Roanoke, or the judge
thereof, respectively, except as to matters of which the corporation
court of the said city shall have exclusive jurisdiction.