judge with like qualifications and to be elected in the same manner as the judges of the corporation courts of the State, to hold the said court and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed by law.

2. The term of office of the judge of said court to be elected by the general assembly hereunder shall commence on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and shall end on the thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and each term thereafter shall be for eight years. A vacancy in said judgeship for the period between the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and the first day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby declared to exist, which vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor after the adjournment of the general assembly and prior to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.

3. The said court and the judge thereof shall have concurrently with the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, and the judge thereof, the same powers, duties and jurisdiction as the said corporation court of the city of Norfolk, and the judge thereof, now have and which may hereafter be conferred by law.

4. There shall be held monthly terms of said court, except that the judge thereof may omit the term to be held in the month of July or August. The terms of said court shall begin on the first Monday in each month, unless otherwise changed as prescribed by law, and shall continue so long as the business of the court may require.

5. The rules for said court shall be the same as are now or may hereafter be prescribed for the corporation courts of the State.

6. All provisions of law now in force or hereafter to be enacted relating to regular and special grand juries, jury commissioners and petit juries, applicable to the corporation courts of the State and to the judges thereof shall apply to said court and the judge thereof.

7. The clerk of the corporation court of the city of Norfolk shall also be the clerk of said court. He shall qualify as now prescribed by law and give bond for the faithful performance of his duties in both courts, and if he qualify before a judge in vacation, the bond shall be certified to the corporation court of the city of Norfolk and to said court, to be recorded in both, courts.

8. The sergeant of the city of Norfolk shall be the officer to attend on the said court and to execute its process and orders.

9. The attorney for the Commonwealth for the city of Norfolk shall be the attorney for the Commonwealth for said court.

10. All provisions of law now in force and hereafter to be enacted with reference to the judges of circuit courts, or city, or corporation courts of record holding other corporation courts shall be applicable to said court and the judge thereof, both with respect to other judges holding said court and the said judge holding other courts.

11. All provisions of law now in force and hereafter to be enacted relating to corporation courts of this State and to judges and other

officers thereof shall apply to said court and to the judge and other officers thereof as if the said court and the judge and other officers thereof were specially named therein, whenever necessary and proper to enable the said court to exercise the powers, duties and jurisdiction conferred or when relating to matters weherof the said court is given jurisdiction.

12. Any duty devolved or power or jurisdiction conferred, or which may hereafter be devolved or conferred by law on corporation. courts of this State, or the judge thereof, shall, unless otherwise pro'vided, be deemed to be also devolved and conferred on said court, and the judge thereof, when relating to matters whereof the said court is given jurisdiction.

13. Appeals, writs of error and supersedeas from and to judg ments and order of the said court, or the judge thereof, shall be taken and allowed as from and to judgments and orders of the corporation courts of the State, or the judges thereof.

14. The salary of the judge of said court shall be three thousand dollars and shall be payable in the same manner as now prescribed by law for the judges of the circuit courts of the Commonwealth.

15. An emergency existing by reason of the necessity for the establishment of said court, this act shall take effect from the date of its passage. (1922, p. 117.)

Chap. 80 of Acts 1922.-An Act prescribing the jurisdiction of corporation courts in cities in which there are two corporation courts and providing for the transfer of certain cases from one court to the other.

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in all cities of this State in which there has been or shall be established two corporation courts, the corporation court last established in such cities and the judge thereof shall have concurrently with the corporation court first established in such cities and the judge thereof the same powers, duties and jurisdiction as the corporation court first established in such cities and the judge thereof now have and which may hereafter be conferred by law, except in the following matters, which shall remain as heretofore in the corporation court first established in such cities or with the judge thereof:

All matters concerning the probate and recording of wills; the appointment, qualification and removal of fiduciaries and the settlement of their accounts; the docketing of judgments; the recording in the mcde prescribed by law of deeds and all other papers authorized or required by law to be recorded; the appointment and removal of members of the electoral board; all questions, powers and duties pertaining to the appointment and removal of justices of the peace; and all questions, powers and duties pertaining to the appointment and removal of all other officers and officials.

2. Either of said corporation courts in such cities, on motion of the attorney for the Commonwealth for such cities, or the attorney for the accused, may, for good cause shown, or to equalize the work of the two courts, transfer from one court to the other any case or cases pending in either court in which the Commonwealth is a party; and said courts may do likewise on motion of the city attorney for such cities, with respect to cases pending in either of said courts for violation of ordinances of such cities. An order shall be entered of record of said transfers by both the court from which and to which transferred, and when transferred, said cases shall stand in all respects as they stood in the court from which they were transferred, and like proceedings shall be had and process issued as if said cases had been originally commenced in said court to which transferred.

3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to change or affect in any manner the respective jurisdictions of the corporation or hustings court, where two corporation or hustings courts now exist, in cities containing more than one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, as shown by the last United States census.

4.

An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from the date of its passage. (1922, p. 119.)

Chap. 93 of Acts 1922.--An Act for the establishment of State game sanctuaries in this State.

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any landowner or landowners may enter into an agreement with the commissioner of the department of game and inland fisheries to permit his or their lands to be used as State game sanctuaries for a period of not less than three years, and that on any land so assigned, it shall be unlawful for any person to kill or capture or disturb any wild animal or to kill or capture or disturb any wild birds, its eggs, nests, or young, without obtaining a permit from the commissioner of game and inland fisheries to do so, and the said commissioner is authorized only to give permits to kill predatory animals and birds on such sanctuaries.

All lands tendered the State as aforesaid shall be conspicuously posted as State game sanctuaries, and any person by trespassing or hunting on same shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor, and when convicted shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or committed to jail for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the justice or jury trying the case. (1922, p. 130.)

Chap. 94 of Acts 1922.-An Act to empower the State highway commission to use without the institution of condemnation proceedings lands for camp sites, storage yards or detours.

Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the State highway commission is empowered to use without the institution of condemnation proceedings such lands as may be required in connection with the construction, reconstruction or repair of the State highway system, for camp sites, storage yards or detours; providing that no orchard, yard, graveyard or garden shall be used for such detour, camp sites or storage yards excepting with the written consent of the owner. Provided, however, that not in excess of two acres of land may be thus taken for any one camp site or any one storage yard and not more than a thirty-foot strip of land may be taken for use as a detour; provided, further, that no land thus taken shall be held continuously for more than one year and no camp may be placed within five hundred yards of the residence of the owner or tenant occupying said land without the consent of said owner or tenant.

2. If the owner or tenant of any such land shall deem himself injured thereby and the commission or its agents can agree with such owner or tenant as to the amount of damages caused by said taking, they shall pay said damage to the owner or tenant, as the case may be, but if an agreement cannot be reached, then a justice of the peace in the county wherein the land is situated shall, upon application to him by said owner or tenant, issue a warrant to three freeholders of said county requiring them to review the said land and ascertain and report what is a just compensation to such owner or tenant for the damage done to him by such taking, the said freeholders, after being sworn, shall ascertain such compensation and report the same to the State highway commission or its duly authorized agent. The commission may thereupon allow the full amount so agreed upon or reported by said freeholders, or so much thereof as to the commission may seem reasonable, subject to the right of such owner or tenant to appeal to the circuit court of the county wherein the land lies, as in other cases.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage and becoming a law. (1922, p. 131.)

Chap. 103 of Acts 1922.--An Act to regulate child placing, and to provide for the licensing, visitation, supervision, inspection and regulation of agencies engaged in the business of receiving and caring for children or placing or boarding them in private homes; and to repeal sections 1931 to 1935, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. Approved February 27, 1922.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia as follows: Section 1. It shall be the duty of the State board of public welfare to pass annually on the fitness of every agency, public, semi-public

or private which engages in the business for gain or otherwise, of receiving and caring for children or placing, or boarding them in private homes. Annually and at such time as the board shall direct every such agency shall make a report showing its condition, management and competency to care adequately for such children as are or may be committed thereto or received thereby, the system of visitation employed for children placed in private homes, and such other facts as the board may require. When the board is satisfied that such agency is competent and has adequate facilities to care for such children, and that the requirements of the statutes covering the management of such agencies are being complied with it shall issue to the agency a license which shall continue in force for one year unless sooner revoked by the board. No agency which has not received such license within the fifteen months next preceding shall receive a child for care or placing out, or place a child in another home or solicit money in behalf of such agency. All such agencies shall be subject to the visitation and inspection by the local board of health, and the same visitation, inspection and supervision by the State board of public welfare as are the public charitable institutions of the State. The word "agency" where used in this act shall include individuals, partnerships, voluntary associations and corporations.

Section 2. Every agency permitted by law to receive, secure homes for, or otherwise care for children, shall keep a record containing names, ages, present and former residences of all children received; the names, former residences, occupations and character so far as known of the parents; the dates of reception, placing out or adoption, together with the names, occupations and residences of the person with whom the child is placed; the date and cause of cancellation of any contract, the date and cause of any removal to another home; the date and cause of termination of custody, and a brief history of each child until he shall have reached the age of eighteen years, or shall have been legally adopted or discharged according to law.

Section 3. Every such agency shall report on the first day of each month to the State board of public welfare on forms supplied by it, giving the information contained in the record and such other information as the board may require.

Section 4. The State board of public welfare shall within ninety days of the receipt of the notice of placement of any child, cause such child to be visited by one of its agents for the purpose of ascertaining whether the home is a suitable one for the child, and whether the child is contented. The board shall continue to visit and supervise the care of such child as though the child were placed out by the board. Whenever satisfied that a child has been placed in an unsuitable home, or that the child continues to be discontented, the board may order its transfer by the agency which placed it, and if said order is not obeyed within thirty days, or such shorter time as is named in the order, the board itself shall take charge of and provide for such child.