The jurisdiction of the court shall be as now or hereafter
provided by law, subject to the provisions of this Constitution.
All proceedings, then pending in the court as now organized,
shall, by virtue of this Constitution, be transferred to and
disposed of by the court created by this Constitution.
SEC 7 The present judicial system of county and circuit courts of
the Commonwealth is continued, and the terms of the several judges
thereof, with the powers and duties now possessed by them
respectively, are continued, until the first day of February,
nineteen hundred and four, as if this Constitution had not been
adopted, on which day the judicial system of circuit courts
created by this Constitution shall go into operation. The terms of
the judges of the city courts, as preserved by this Constitution,
of the cities of Alexandria, Charlottesville, Danville,
Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, Petersburg, Norfolk, Portsmouth,
Richmond, Staunton, Manchester, Roanoke, Winchester, and Newport
News, shall continue until the first day of February, nineteen
hundred and seven, and the terms of the judges of the city courts,
as preserved by this Constitution, of the cities of Bristol,
Radford and Buena Vista, shall continue until the first day of
February, nineteen hundred and four, unless the said courts shall
be sooner abolished The privilege now allowed by statute to judges
of county courts and to judges of certain city courts to practice
law, shall continue during the terms of the judges whose terms are
continued by the Schedule, unless otherwise provided by-law
SEC 8 The terms of the clerks of the county and circuit courts now
in office, or their successors, shall continue until the first day
of February, nineteen hundred and four, and thereupon, the several
clerks of the county courts in those counties in which such clerks
are now ex-officio clerks of the circuit courts of said counties
shall be and become the county clerks of their respective
counties, and the clerks of all the other county courts of the
State, except the counties of Accomac, Augusta, Bedford, Campbell,
Elizabeth City, Fairfax, Lee, Loudoun Hanover Henrico, Rockingham,
Nansemond, Southampton, Pittsylvania, Nelson and Fauquier, and, as
such, the clerks of the circuit courts created therefor by this
Constitution, and shall hold office as such until the first day of
January, nineteen hundred and six, unless sooner removed, and then
successors shall be elected on Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, nineteen hundred and five, provided that the first term
of the clerks so elected be for six years.
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