Chap. 88.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter 178, Code:
of 18738, in relation to Records in the Court of Appeals.

Approved February 13, 1877.

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

§ 6. Unless the person so intending to petition direct other-
wise, there shall not, in a chancery case, be copied of the
process, orders at rules, or returns, or evidence of service
thereof, any but such as are necessary to show that the cause
was regularly matured for hearing; nor of the commissions
and notices to take depositions, captions to such depositions,
and certificates of their having been sworn to, any more than
is necessary to the decision of exceptions taken to the read-
ing of the depositions; but the name of each witness, and
the day of taking his deposition, shall be stated at the head
thereof. If more than one copy of the same paper be filed
in the case, only one copy of it shall be inserted. There shall °
not be copied an account reported by a commissioner, to
which there is no exception, nor any printed document of
which either party will furnish to the clerk a copy, but such
duplicate shall be attached to what is copied. And whep a
case has before been in the appellate court, there shall only
be copied the. proceedings subsequent to the former appeal,
writ of error, or supersedeas: provided, that such court shall
prescribe from time to time such rules as to it may seem
proper for making out the transcript of the record as afore-.
said, and for printing the same, or so much thereof as will
properly enable the court to decide the cause: and provided,
further, that whenever and as often as such rules are pre-
scribed by the court, it shall be the duty of its clerk forthwith
to have printed a sufficient number of copies thereof, and to
forward by mail not less than two copies to the clerk of each
court of the commonwealth—the cost of such printing and
the postage to be paid out of the public treasury, as now pro-
vided by law for other printing and postage: and provided,
farther, that any party in interest may have any matter
stricken from the record under such rules as may be pre-
scribed, printed along with the record at his own expense—
such expense not to be taxed with the costs of the suit.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

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