Chap. 17.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5887 and 5888 of the Code of
Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to circuit courts for counties and
cities and the division of the State into judicial circuits, so as to provide a
circuit court for the City of Martinsville and to include such court in the Seventh
Judicial Circuit, and to add the City of Fredericksburg heretofore provided with
a circuit court and included in the Fifteenth Circuit. [H B 58]

Approved February 12, 1942

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sections
fifty-eight hundred and eighty-seven and fifty-eight hundred and eighty-
eight of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 5887. Circuit courts established for counties and cities.—
For the city of Williamsburg and the county of James City, for that part
of the county of Henrico which is without the corporate limits of the city
of Richmond, and for every other county, and for each of the cities of
Alexandria, Charlottesville, Clifton Forge, Danville, Fredericksburg,
Hopewell, Lynchburg, Martinsville, Newport News, Norfolk, Petersburg,
Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, and Suffolk, there shall be a circuit
court, which shall be called the circuit court of such county or city, or such
city and county, as the case may be. Any action or proceeding taken or had
in the circuit court of Rockingham county or in the clerk’s office thereof,
since the twelfth day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty, which
under the provisions of this section as it appears in the Code of nineteen
hundred and nineteen should have been taken or had in the circuit court
of the city of Harrisonburg, or in the clerk’s office thereof, shall be as
valid and effectual in all respects as 1f no separate circuit court for the city
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of Harrisonburg had been created or provided for by the said Code; and
any action or proceeding taken or had in the circuit court of Elizabeth
City county, or in the clerk’s office thereof, since the twelfth day of Janu-
ary, nineteen hundred and twenty, which under the provisions of this
section as it appears in the Code of nineteen hundred and nineteen, should
have been taken or had in the circuit court of the city of Hampton, or in
the clerk’s office thereof, shall be as valid and effectual in all respects as if
no separate circuit court for the city of Hampton had been created or
provided for by the said Code.

Section 5888. The State shall be divided into thirty-four judicial
circuits as follows:

(1) The county of Norfolk shall constitute the first circuit.

(2) The counties of Nansemond and Southampton and the city of
Suffolk shall constitute the second circuit.

(3) The counties of Prince George, Sussex, Greensville and Bruns-
wick, and the city of Hopewell, shall constitute the third circuit.

(4) The counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Nottoway, Amelia,
Powhatan, and the city of Petersburg, shall constitute the fourth circuit.

(5) The counties of Appomattox, Charlotte, Prince Edward,
Buckingham and Cumberland shall constitute the fifth circuit.

(6) The county of Campbell, and the city of Lynchburg shall con-
stitute the sixth circuit.

(7) The counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, and the cities of
Danville and Martinsville, shall constitute the seventh circuit.

(8) The counties of Madison, Greene and Albemarle and the city
of Charlottesville shall constitute the eighth circuit.

(9) The counties of Culpeper, Orange, Louisa and Goochland shall
constitute the ninth circuit.

(10) The county of Henrico and the city of Richmond shall con-
stitute the tenth circuit.

(11) The county of Elizabeth City and the city of Newport News
shall constitute the eleventh circuit. :

(12) The counties of Richmond, Northumberland, Westmoreland,
Lancaster and Essex shall constitute the twelfth circuit.

(13) The counties of Gloucester, Mathews, King and Queen, King
William and Middlesex shall constitute the thirteenth circuit.

(14) The counties of New Kent, Charles City, York, Warwick,
James City and the city of Williamsburg shall constitute the fourteenth
circuit.

(15) The counties of King George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caro-
line and Hanover and the city of Fredericksburg shall constitute the
fifteenth circuit.

(16) The counties of Prince William, Fairfax, and Arlington, and
the city of Alexandria, shall constitute the sixteenth circuit.

(17) The counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren and Shenandoah
shall constitute the seventeenth circuit.

(18) The counties of Augusta, Highland and Rockbridge and the
city of Buena Vista shall constitute the eighteenth circuit.
(19) The counties of Bath, Alleghany, Craig and Botetourt and
the city of Clifton Forge shall constitute the nineteenth circuit.

(20) The counties of Roanoke, Montgomery, Floyd and the city
of Roanoke shall constitute the twentieth circuit.

(21) The counties of Pulaski, Carroll, Wythe and Grayson shall
constitute the twenty-first circuit.

(22) The counties of Bland, Tazewell and Giles shall constitute the
twenty-second circuit. ,

(23) The counties of Washington and Smyth shall constitute the
twenty-third circuit.

(24) The counties of Russell and Scott shall constitute the twenty-
fourth circuit.

(25) The counties of Rockingham and Page shall constitute the
twenty-fifth circuit. |

(26) The counties of Rappahannock, Fauquier and Loudoun shall
constitute the twenty-sixth circuit.

(27) The counties of Buchanan and Dickenson shall constitute the
twenty-seventh circuit.

(28) The counties of Isle of Wight, Princess Anne, Surry and the
city of Portsmouth shall constitute the twenty-eighth circuit.

(29) The counties of Amherst, Nelson and Fluvanna shall consti-
tute the twenty-ninth circuit.

(30) The counties of Bedford and Franklin shall constitute the
thirtieth circuit.

(31) The counties of Accomack and Northampton shall constitute
the thirty-first circuit. |

(32) The city of Norfolk shall constitute the thirty-second circuit.

(33) The counties of Wise and Lee shall constitute the thirty-third
circuit.

(34) The counties of Halifax, Mecklenburg and Lunenburg shall
constitute the thirty-fourth circuit.