Chap. 88.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 5888 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to judicial circuits and retirement of judges. [H 309]

Approved March 3, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section fifty-eight hundred eighty-eight of the Code of
Virginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 5888. Judicial circuits—The State shall be divided
into thirty-five 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 coynties of Prince George, Sussex, Surry, Greensville
and Brunswick, 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 counties of Bedford and Campbell, and the city of
Lynchburg shall constitute the sixth circuit.
(7) The counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, and the city
of 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
constitute 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, Westmore-
land, 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,
Caroline and Hanover and the city of Fredericksburg shall consti-
tute the fifteenth circuit.

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

(17) The counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren and Shenan-
doah 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. e

(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, and the city
of Portsmouth shall constitute the twenty-eighth circuit.

(29) The counties of Amherst, Nelson and Fluvanna shall
constitute the twenty-ninth circuit.
(30) The county of Franklin shall constitute the thirtieth
revit.

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

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

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

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

(35) The county of Arlington shall constitute the thirty-fifth
rcuit.