Chap. 339.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 12 of an
act approved March 8, 1877, entitled an act to Incerpurate the tewn
of North Danville.

Approved April 4, 1877.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly, That the eleventh
and twe.fth sections of the act entitled an act to incorporate
the town of North Danville, approved March eighth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-seven, be, and the same are hereby
amended and re-enacted as follows:

§ 11. Process of the courts of Pittsylvania county, as well
as of the courts of the town of Danville, shall continue to
run within the corporate limits of the said town of North
Danville, but the residents of the said town of North Dan-
ville, shall not bereafter be liable to be sued in the courts of
Pittsylvania county, as residents thereof, nor to be summoned,
or required to attend the courts of that county as grand
jurors or as petit jurors, except in special cases provided by
law, but they shall be liable to be sued and to be summoned
and to serve a8 jurors, grand or petit, in the courts of the
town of Danville, in the same manner as if they were fesi-
dents of that town. They may be included in the list of
jurors required to be prepared by the judge of the corpora-
tion court of the town of Danville, under the third section
of chapter one hundred and fifty-eight of the Code of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three. And in reference to the
twenty-third section of chapter one hundred and eighteen,
and the first section of chapter one hundred and sixty-five,
of the said Code, and generally in reference to the laws reg-
ulating the jurisdiction of the courts, the said residents of
North Danville shall be construed to be residents of the
town of Danville, and not residents of the said Pittsylvania
county. The account and statements mentioned in the
fourth section of chapter one hundred and fifteen of said
Code, relating to mechanics’ liens on property in the said
town of North Danville, shall be filed and recorded in the
corporation court of the town of Danville, instead of the
county court of Pittsylvania county, and all contracts, deeds
of conveyance, and other writings, which by the fifth section
of chapter one hundred and fourteen are declared to be void,
as to creditors and subsequent purchasers, unless and until
they are duly admitted to record in the county or corpora-
tion wherein the property in such deeds, contracts, or other
writings may be, shall, if such deeds, contracts, or other
writings relate to or embrace property, real or personal,
within the corporate limits of the said town of North D&n-
ville, be deemed to be duly admitted to record witbin the
meaning of the sections aforesaid, when duly admitted to
record in the corporation court of the town of Danville, in-
stead of the county court of Pittsylvania county.

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