Judicial

1936
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4899-a, providing for the disqualification, in felony cases in counties, of jurors who reside within two miles of the place where the felony is alleged to have been committed, upon objection of the Commonwealth or the accused.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4951 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the hiring of persons sentenced to confinement in jail for failure to pay a fine and costs of prosecution, or confined in jail under a capias pro fine, so as to provide for the relief of the hirer and the release of the fine and costs.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 4981l-a, requiring the docketing of judgments obtained by the Commonwealth in courts of record on forfeited recognizances and bonds, and providing for the payment of the fees for such recordation.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5898 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1020 of the Code of Virginia in relation to committing incompetent persons to State institutions, so as to allow incompetent veterans to be committed to a Veterans’ Administration Facility.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4214 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the lien of policyholders on deposits of insurance companies with the State Treasurer and the enforcement thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4180 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the refusal, suspension or revocation of licenses of insurance companies insolvent or violating the law.
An ACT to broaden the plea of general issue in actions of trespass and make it similar to the plea of general issue in actions of trespass on the case.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 5, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 29, 35, 37, 38, 39, 42, 50, and 53 of Chapter 94 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known, designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, so as, among other things, to vest in members of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and persons designated by such board general police authority, to provide that judicial notice shall be taken of regulations of such board, and to further amend the said act by adding thereto the following new sections: Section 38-a, providing for the forfeiture and confiscation of certain automobiles, boats, aircraft and other conveyances; Section 48-a, imposing penalties for failing or refusing to obey certain subpoenas and for disturbing decorum of certain meetings; Section 49-a, providing for regulations and permits relating to transportation of the aforementioned alcoholic liquids, beverages and articles; Section 61-a, providing for introduction of chemical analyses as evidence; and Section 61-b, allowing previous convictions hereunder to be alleged and proved.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled an act to regulate the keeping, and making entries in the chancery and common law order books in the several courts of the State
An ACT to revise, rearrange and consolidate into one act certain acts relating to the Attorney General; to provide for his assistants, clerks, stenographers and employees and for their compensation; to prescribe the authority and duties of the Attorney General and to provide for commerce counsel for the State Corporation Commission; and to repeal certain sections of the Code and acts relating to the Attorney General and his office, and to designate this act as Section 374-A of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide for the supervision, regulation, and fixing of the rates and charges of persons, associations and corporations, issuing motor vehicle liability insurance policies; to require such persons, associations, and corporations to file reports, rates, rate manuals, schedules of rates, rating plans, information concerning rates, and changed deviations therefrom, with the State Corporation Commission; to prescribe the rights, powers and duties of the State Corporation Commission concerning stich matters; to provide for the establishment of an administrative bureau and membership therein; to provide for appeals from the State Corporation Commission; to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 23, 1932.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 267 and 268 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to preparing and furnishing lists of deeds, judgments and decrees for partition of lands and lands devised by will by clerks of courts in which such deeds and wills are recorded and such judgments and decrees are rendered in cities containing more than one hundred seventy-five thousand inhabitants.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 269 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the form of general oath to be taken and subscribed by every person before entering upon the discharge of any function as an officer of this State.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3813-c, authorizing purchasers of real estate, and their successors in title, purchased from certain dissolved corporations, to maintain suits to quiet title to such real estate and to remove clouds therefrom, prescribing the jurisdiction of such suits, authorizing the appointment of receivers, directing the defense of such suits by such receivers, and providing that no stockholders, officers or directors of such dissolved corporations formerly owning said real estate, need be defendants thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4970 of the Code of Virginia relating to special prosecuting attorneys.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6012 of the Code of Virginia, relating to juries for the trial of, and the waiver of trial by jury in, civil cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4895 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to venire facias in felony cases and the trial of persons jointly indicted for a felony, so as to provide that juries summoned as herein provided may be used for the trial of civil cases as well as felonies and misdemeanors.
An ACT for the relief of Edward Meeks.
An ACT to authorize courts administering or liquidating the estates of insolvent banks or trust companies operating in Virginia, and upon petition of trustees engaged in the voluntary liquidation of the estates of such insolvents, to require creditors to act with diligence in obtaining satisfaction of claims allowed therein upon penalty of having such claims barred.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4764 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3413 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the Board of Law Examiners and qualifications and examination of applicants for membership to the bar.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2854 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to courthouses, clerk’s offices, jails, and other public property.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4771 of the Code of Virginia, relating to offenses committed on or near county boundary lines, so as to confer certain powers upon sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and police officers.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 17 as amended, of an act entitled “an act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act,
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 105 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Richmond, approved March 24, 1926, as heretofore amended.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5904-b, 5904-c and 5904-e, of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to county courts, so as to provide for jurisdiction and procedure in actions in detinue, attachments and garnishments, and to provide for the disposition of fees collected by, and for the expenses of, the clerk of such court.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3394 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to general and daily indexes in clerk’s offices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 5, 14, 27 and 33, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk, approved September 11, 1919, as heretofore amended, which town has since become the city of South Norfolk; and to provide a charter for the city of South Norfolk,’ approved March 20, 1924, Section 5 relating to the election of councilmen and other city officers, Section 14 to the trial justice of the city and his jurisdiction, Section 27 to borrowing money, and Section 33 to appeals from the trial justice: and to further amend said act by adding thereto a new section numbered 42-a, relating to time for bringing action against city for damages; and to repeal Section 1l-a thereof.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled 'an act to regulate the confession of judgment in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon,' approved March 27, 1922, as heretofore amended.
An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Thornton Massie.
An ACT to validate acknowledgments heretofore taken by justices of the peace, mayors of cities or towns, police justices or civil and police justices who by virtue of their offices had the powers and authority of justices of the peace, where such justices or mayors or police justices or civil and police justices are designated in the certificates of acknowledgment as police justices or as civil and police justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 63 and 64 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, Virginia, as amended by act approved March 24, 1920, as amended by act approved March 10, 1928, and to add thereto a new section to be known as section 64-a.
An ACT to prohibit the distribution of drugs and medicines by means of medicine shows, and to prescribe penalties.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4246 of the Code of Virginia relating to the annual report of the State Corporation Commission on insurance companies in receivership, so as, among other things, to require the filing of reports and other papers concerning receivership proceedings.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia, by adding thereto a new section numbered 322, providing for the appointment, duties and expenses of Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled an act to regulate the confession of judgment in the office of the clerk of any court of record in the Commonwealth of Virginia and to prescribe the procedure thereon, approved March 27, 1922, in relation to notice to be given after judgment confessed.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act, relating to the charter of the city of Harrisonburg, Virginia, approved March 3, 1896, as heretofore amended, so as to authorize the appointment of a city trial justice, substitute trial justice and clerk of the trial justice court for the city of Harrisonburg, and prescribing the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justice, substitute trial justice and clerk; prescribing fees to be charged and collected by said trial justices and clerk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 16, 19, 21, 22 and 28 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter and special form of government for the city of Hampton, and to repeal the existing charter for said city, formerly the town of Hampton, approved May 23, 1887, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved, respectively, February 29, 1892; February 24, 1896; March 3, 1898; January 13, 1900; January 30, 1900; February 23, 1901; the two acts of May 15, 1903; March 2, 1914; March 9, 1916, and the act of December 26, 1903, which became a law without the Governor’s signature; and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Hampton, approved March 16, 1920, as heretofore amended; to repeal section 23 of the said act; and to provide for the effect of said repeal; and to prescribe the conditions upon which the said amendments and the said repeal shall become effective.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3388 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4835 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the fees of bail commissioners and clerks of courts for admitting persons to bail and the authority of the clerk to exercise powers of a bail commissioner.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5992 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to providing juries for the trial of civil and misdemeanor cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6556 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to certain exemptions allowed laborers who are householders or heads of families, so as to permit any such householder or head of a family against whom a judgment has been obtained, at the time such judgment is rendered or at any time thereafter, to move the justice or court rendering such judgment to declare certain wages exempt.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to chapter 124 thereof a new section numbered 3105-a, prescribing the conditions upon which warrants or other process, issued upon certain claims or causes of action of which civil and police justices are given jurisdiction, may be made returnable before such justices; and providing that such warrants or other process may be directed to a constable, sheriff or sergeant of any county or city wherein the defendant resides or may be found, and prescribing in what instances such warrants may be served in a county or corporation other than that in which the action is brought.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of the Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Act, which became a law March 21, 1918, as last amended by an act approved March 24, 1932.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6218 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to securing attendance of certain witnesses.
An ACT to prevent the pollution of certain waters in the county of York, and to prescribe means for enjoining violations of this act, and to prescribe the duty of the court to which relief is applied for.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled "an act to provide for the licensing of chauffeurs, and other motor vehicle operators, and for the suspension and revocation of such licenses for certain causes; to fix liability on certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways; and to prescribe penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act," approved March 29, 1932, as heretofore amended, in relation to the operator of a motor vehicle displaying his license upon demand.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5984 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to who are liable to serve as jurors.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3106 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to appeals and removals from civil and police justices and civil justices.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 381, as amended, 386, 388, 389, 390, 393 and 394 of the Code of Virginia relating to public printing so as to prescribe the powers and duties of the Director of the Division of Purchase and Printing and the Director of the Division of the Budget with reference thereto, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 393-a, providing for the editing and printing of reports and publications of departments, officers, boards, commissions and other agencies of the Commonwealth; and to repeal section 280 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, as heretofore amended, relating to the printing and distribution of annual reports.
An ACT to fix the minimum compensation of civil justices in certain cities of the Commonwealth, and to prohibit such civil justices from practicing law.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 61 and 62 and 94, as amended, of chapter 342, of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1932, approved March 26, 1932, and known, designated and cited as the Motor Vehicle Code of Virginia, said sections relating to reckless driving and lighting equipment.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled, “an act to regulate the keeping, and making entries in the chancery and common law order books in the several courts of this State’
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2868 of the Code of Virginia relating to jailors and jails in the Commonwealth.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3424-b, requiring clerks of courts in which revocation or suspension proceedings against attorneys at law are had, or in which an attorney is convicted of a felony, to give notice thereof to the clerks of the Supreme Court of Appeals and to the secretary of the Virginia State Board of Bar Examiners.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto fifteen new sections, numbered 4987-a to 4987-0, both inclusive, providing for the appointment of trial justices and substitute trial justices in counties and in certain counties and cities; providing for the appointment of clerks for such trial justices, and prescribing the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices, substitute trial justices and clerks; providing that trial justices, substitute trial justices, and their clerks, selected and functioning under other acts, shall be subject to the said fifteen new sections as if appointed thereunder; providing for the appointment of associate trial justices in certain counties and prescribing their terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation; providing for continuity between this and prior trial justice systems; enlarging authority of justices of the peace and mayors to issue attachments, warrants and subpoenas and as issuing officers; prescribing fees to be charged and collected by trial justices and clerks and providing for the disposition of moneys collected by such officers; appropriating for such purposes the sum of $60,000 annually for distribution among the counties; and exempting certain counties until they adopt the provisions of the foregoing sections; and to repeal Sections 4983 and 4988-a to 4988-p, both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia and certain other acts providing for the appointment or selection of trial justices, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1650 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the hearing of charges against licensed dentists and the revocation of licenses, so as to permit suspension of licenses, and to prohibit a person whose license is revoked or suspended from practicing dentistry pending a decision upon appeal.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5825 of the Code of Virginia
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to disabilities to hold office and exceptions thereto.
An ACT for the relief of H. I°. Minter
An ACT to authorize the court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, or the judge thereof in vacation, to destroy certain papers, books and records filed in the case of W. J. Williams et al v. The Peoples Bank of Portsmouth et al., recently pending in the said court.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Martinsville, Virginia, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3102 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to civil and police justices, civil justices and judges of municipal courts, so as to provide for the payment of certain taxes and costs in removals.

1936/1937es
An ACT to provide for the establishment, purchase, construction, maintenance and operation of a radio or teletype system or any combination thereof, to be used for transmitting and receiving messages for the detection of crime and the apprehension of criminals, and for other police purposes.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Norton, Virginia, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, and all former charters and amendments thereof, of said town.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4987-g of the Code of Virginia, relating to trial justices and clerks of trial justice courts.

1938
An ACT to authorize the clerk of the circuit court of Norfolk county, Virginia, to transcribe and consolidate the general indices to judgments in his office from 1843 to January 1, 1938, and to make said consolidated transcript a legal record of judgments docketed in his office.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 395 of the Tax Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to delinquent State taxes.
An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Cape Charles, Northampton county, Virginia; to repeal all acts, or parts of acts in conflict therewith; and to validate all contracts heretofore or hereafter made by the present council and government while in office not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution and general laws of this State; and to repeal all former charters of the town of Cape Charles.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1, as amended, of an act entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of special justices of the peace in cities of less than 25,000 inhabitants and in counties, to be known as judges of juvenile and domestic relations courts; to prescribe their jurisdiction, powers, duties, and compensation; and to provide for the maintenance of juvenile and domestic relations courts in such cities and in counties"
An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 3378, as heretofore amended, 3379, as heretofore amended, 3380, 3381, as heretofore amended, 3383, as heretofore amended, 3384, 3385, 3465, as heretofore amended, 3486, as heretofore amended, 5862, 5863, 5866, 5874, 5883, 6337, as heretofore amended, 6350, 6355, as heretofore amended, 6357, as heretofore amended, 6358, as heretofore amended, 6360, 6370, and 6371, as heretofore amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Supreme Court of Appeals, its clerks and employees, its jurisdiction and work, and the practice and procedure therein, and to repeal Sections 4936, 5867, as heretofore amended, 5868, 5869, as heretofore amended, 5871, as heretofore amended, 6361, and 6362 of the Code of Virginia.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 46 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to lands of churches and other like organizations, so as to authorize such land to be improved and encumbrances thereon to be extended.
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 3466-a prescribing the compensation of judges of circuit courts and of judges of corporation and city courts of record of cities of the first class, to amend and re-enact Sections 3469 and 3471 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the compensation of judges, and to repeal Sections 3466, 3468 and 3470 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matter, and an act entitled “An act to continue the salaries of the judges of the first and tenth judicial circuits”, approved February 18, 1924.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5888 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to judicial circuits, so as to make the city of Buena Vista part of the eighteenth judicial circuit.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to create a lien in favor of hospitals for its reasonable charges for caring for persons injured in accidents, the giving of notice of such lien, the effect thereof and to provide for the adjudication of the claims made by hospitals against persons injured in accidents”
An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1939, and the thirtieth day of June, 1940, to prescribe the provisos, terms, conditions and provisions with respect to the items of appropriation, and their payment, and to repeal all acts wholly in conflict with this act, and all parts of all acts inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5898 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the designation of judges to hold courts other than their own, so as to include within its provisions certain retired judges, and the designation of judges and retired judges to assist other judges, and to repeal an act entitled “An act to provide for holding the courts of the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit of Virginia, and who may hold the same, and the pay of the judge holding said court, and as to the other counties in said judicial circuit reimbursing the county in which said court is held for part of the pay of said judge so holding said court”
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3519 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to security for costs and damages on the part of non-resident plaintiffs.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4889 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the trial of misdemeanor cases, so as to provide for the trial of such cases by trial justices, in the absence of the accused.
An ACT to prohibit, upon certain conditions, any person or per-sons from cutting or removing timber from lands designated by the State Highway Commissioner for the Blue Ridge Parkway and prescribing penal- ties for violations of this act, and conferring jurisdiction upon courts to enjoin violations and attempted violations of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2850 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the appointment of notaries public, their residence, terms and bonds, their removal by the Governor for cause, and the certification of their commissions.
An ACT to regulate the practice of general contracting in Virginia; to establish a State Registration Board for Contractors and to define its powers and duties; to provide the method of obtaining a certificate of registration to engage in the practice of general contracting, and to fix fees for such certificates; to dispose of the monies raised; to provide the method of suspension and cancellation of such certificate of registration; and to prescribe the punishment for violation of the provisions of this act.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5758 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to public holidays.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to prescribe the times for holding the regular terms of the circuit courts in the twenty-seventh judicial circuit”
An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section numbered 5978-a, providing for the retirement of judges of circuit, corporation and city courts, and providing for the compensation of, and the performance of certain duties by, judges who so retire; and to repeal an act entitled "An act to provide for the retirement of any judge of a corporation or circuit court who shall have attained the age of eighty years and who shall have served continuously as judge of said court for thirty years, and to provide for their compensation"
An ACT to make the city of Buena Vista a part of the 18th judicial circuit; to establish a circuit court for said city and prescribe the times for holding terms thereof; to make the judge of the 18th judicial circuit the judge of said circuit court; to prescribe the jurisdiction of said circuit court; to transfer to said circuit court all suits, actions, proceedings and matters pending in said corporation court; to provide for the clerk and other officers of said circuit court and a Commonwealth’s attorney for said city; to transfer to the clerk’s office of said circuit court and make parts of the records therein, all record books, papers and records of and in the clerk’s office of said corporation court; and to provide when this act shall be in force.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1021 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to fees and costs of commissions on question: of insanity, inebriacy, feeble-mindedness and epilepsy.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3106 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to appeals and removals from civil and police justices in criminal and civil cases.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5414 of the Code of Virginia, relating to fees of commissioners of accounts.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5019 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to confinement in jails and in the penitentiary, so as to allow credit for certain time spent in the penitentiary.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3463 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to compensation of the justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 7 of chapter 5, and Section 2 of chapter 10, of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Danville”
An ACT to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a police communication system under the supervision of the Division of Motor Vehicles, and making an appropriation therefor.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6235 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to how testimony may be perpetuated, and to prescribe the parties to whom such testimony may be available.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4978 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to forfeited recognizances, so as to enlarge the jurisdiction of trial justices with respect thereto.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the use of probation and the suspension of sentences in criminal and juvenile courts, providing for the appointment of probation officers and defining their powers and duties"
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3464 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the retirement of judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 64, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896”, in relation to the civil justice and substitute civil justice said city.
An ACT to enact a uniform law to secure the attendance of witnesses from without a state in criminal proceedings.