Sec. Art. Terms of Office. office during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed. 25. V. No person shall be eligible to the office of judge of the Circuit or County Courts, unless he be learned in the law, be at least twenty-five years of age, and a citizen of the United States; nor unless he shall have resided in this State or territory at least one year next preceding his election, and at the time of his election be a resident of the county or circuit, as the case may be, for which he is elected. 27. V. The time of holding courts within said judicial circuits and counties shall be as provided by law; but at least one term of the Circuit Court shall be held annually in each organized county, and the Legislature shall make provision for attaching unorganized counties territory to organized counties for judicial purposes. 29. V. or The State shall be divided into sixteen judicial circuits, as follows: 1. The counties of Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry and the city of Norfolk shall constitute the first circuit. 2. The counties of Sussex, Greenesville, Brunswick, Prince George, Dinwiddie, Notoway, Chesterfield and the city of Petersburg shall constitute the second circuit. 3. The counties of Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, Charlotte, Amelia, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Buckingham and Cumberland shall constitute the third circult. 4. The counties of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Patrick, Sec. Art. Terms of Office. Franklin and the town of Danville shall constitute the fourth circuit. 5. The counties of Bedford, Campbell, Appomattox, Amherst, Nelson and the city of Lynchburg shall constitute the fifth circuit. 6. The counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Culpepper, Goochland, Madison, Greene and Orange shall constitute the sixth circuit. 7. The county of Henrico and the city of Richmond shall constitute the seventh circuit. 8. The counties of Accomac, Northampton, York, Elizabeth city, Warwick, James city, New Kent, Charles city and the city of Williamsburg shall constitute the eighth circuit. 9. The counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Mathews, Middlesex, Gloucester, King 10. The counties of Westmoreland, Spotsylvania, Caroline, Hanover, Stafford, King George, Richmond and Louisa shall constitute the tenth circuit. 11. The counties of Loudoun, Fauquier, Fairfax, Prince William, Rappahannock and Alexandria shall constitute the eleventh circuit. 12. The counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Page, Shenandoah and Rockingham shall constitute the twelfth circuit. 13. The counties of Augusta, Rockbridge, Bath, Highland and Allegany shall constitute the thirteenth circuit. 14. The counties of Botetourt, Roanoke, Montgomery, Floyd, Giles and Craig shall constitute the fourteenth circuit. 15. The counties of Carroll, Grayson, Wythe, Pulaski, Bland The General Assembly may rearrange said circuits, or any of them, and increase or diminish the number thereof when the public interests shall require it. 11. VI. For each circuit a judge shall be chosen by the joint vote of the two houses of the General Assembly, who shall hold his office for a term of eight years, unless sooner removed in the manner prescribed by this Constitution. He shall, when chosen, possess the same qualifications of judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals; and during his continuance in office shall reside in the circuit of which he is judge. 12. VI. A Circuit Court shall be held at least twice a year by the judges of each circuit in every county and corporation thereof wherein a Circuit Court now is or may hereafter be established. But the judges may be required or authorized to hold the courts of their respective circuits alternately. and the judge of one circuit to hold court in any other circuit. WEST VIRGINIA. 9. VIII. There shall be at least two terms of the Supreme Court of Appeals held annually at such times and places as may be prescribed by law. 10. VIII. The State shall be divided into thirteen circuits. For the circuit hereinafter called the first, two judges shall be elected, and Sec. Art. Terms of Office. for each of the other circuits one judge shall be elected by the voters thereof. Each of the judges so elected shall hold his office for the term of eight years, unless sooner removed, in the manner prescribed in this Constitution. The judges of the Circuit Courts in office when this article takes effect shall remain therein until the expiration of the term for which they have been elected in the circuits in which they may respectively reside, unless sooner removed, as aforesaid. A vacancy in the office of a judge of the Circuit Court shall be filled in the same manner as is provided for in the case of a vacancy in the office of a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals. During his continuance in office the judge of the Circuit Court shall reside in the circuit in which he is judge. The business of the first circuit may be apportioned between the judges thereof, and such Judges may hold courts in the same county or in different counties within the circuit at the same time or at different times, as may be prescribed by law. 11. VIII. A Circuit Court shall be held in every county in the State at least three times in each year, and provisions may be made by law for holding special terms of said court. A judge of any circuit may hold the courts in another circuit. 12. VIII. The Circuit Court shall have the supervision and control of all proceedings before justices and other inferior tribunals, by mandamus, prohibition and certiorari. They shall, except in cases confined exclusively by Sec. Art. this Constitution to some other tribunal, have original and general jurisdiction of all matters at law where the amount in controversy, exclusive of interest, exceeds fifty dollars; of all cases of habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto, and prohibition, and of all cases in equity, and of all crimes and misdemeanors. They shall have appellate jurisdiction in all cases, civil and criminal, where an appeal, writ of error or supersedeas may be allowed to the judgment or proceedings of any inferior tribunal. They shall also have such other jurisdiction, whether supervisory, original, appellate or concurrent, as is or may be prescribed by law. 13. VIII. Until otherwise provided by law, the State shall be divided into the following circuits: The counties of Brooke, Hancock, Ohio and Marshall shall constitute the first circuit; the counties of Monongalia, Marion and Harrison, the second; the counties of Preston, Taylor, Barbour, Tucker and Randolph, the third; the counties of Wetzel, Tyler, Ritchie and Doddridge, the fourth; the counties of Wood, Wirt and Pleasants, the fifth; the counties of Clay, Gilmer, Jackson, Roane and Calhoun, the sixth; the counties of Putnam, Kanawha and Mason, the seventh; the counties of Cabell, Wayne, Lincoln and Logan, the eighth; the counties of McDowell, Mercer, Raleigh, Wyoming and Boone, the ninth; the counties of Greenbrier, Monroe, Summers, Fayette and Pocahontas, the tenth; the counties of Upshur, Lewis, Braxton, Nicholas and Webster, the eleventh; the |