Chap. 29.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 2, Chapter 173, of
the Code of 1878, as to Chancery Dockets.

Approved February 11, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
two of chapter one hundred and seventy-three of the Code
of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: ,

Ҥ 2. Before every term of a court having chancery juris-
diction, the clerk shall make out a separate docket of chan-
cery cases in which there are motions, and of other chancery
cases which have been set for hearing as to any party, or
which the court is to hear upon a plea, demurrer, or excep-
tions to answer, and during such term every cause on said
docket shall be called and disposed of: provided, however,
that any cause in which there is an order of publication, and
no appearance of the absent defendant, may be docketed as
to such absent defendant at any time after one month from
the time such publication is completed.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.