Chap. 19.—An ACT tv amend and re-enact section four, chapter one
hundred and fifty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, in relation to mandamus, prohibition, &e.

Approved April 7, 1882.

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

§4. The said supreme court, besides having jurisdiction of
all such matters as are now pending therein, shall have juris-
diction to issue writs of mandamus and prohibition to the
circuit and corporation courts, and to the hustings court and
the chancery court of the city of Richmond, and in all other
cases in which it may be necessary to prevent a failure of
justice, in which a mandamus may issue according to the
principles of the common law: provided that no writ of man-
damus, prohibition, or any other summary process whatever,
shall issue in any case of the collection, or attempt to collect
revenue, or to compel the collecting officers to receive any-
thing in payment of taxes other than as provided in chapter
forty-one, Acts of Assembly, approved January twenty-six,

eighteen hundred and cighty-two, or in any case arising out
of the collection of revenue in which the applicant for
the writ or process has uny other remedy adequate for the
a and enforcement of his individual right, claim, and
demand, if just. The practice and proceedings upon such
writs all e governed and regulated, in all cases, by the
principles and practice now prevailing in respect to writs of
manda and prohibition respectively.

. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 19.—An ACT tv amend and re-enact section four, chapter one
hundred and fifty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, in relation to mandamus, prohibition, &e.

Approved April 7, 1882.

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

§4. The said supreme court, besides having jurisdiction of
all such matters as are now pending therein, shall have juris-
diction to issue writs of mandamus and prohibition to the
circuit and corporation courts, and to the hustings court and
the chancery court of the city of Richmond, and in all other
cases in which it may be necessary to prevent a failure of
justice, in which a mandamus may issue according to the
principles of the common law: provided that no writ of man-
damus, prohibition, or any other summary process whatever,
shall issue in any case of the collection, or attempt to collect
revenue, or to compel the collecting officers to receive any-
thing in payment of taxes other than as provided in chapter
forty-one, Acts of Assembly, approved January twenty-six,

eighteen hundred and cighty-two, or in any case arising out
of the collection of revenue in which the applicant for
the writ or process has uny other remedy adequate for the
a and enforcement of his individual right, claim, and
demand, if just. The practice and proceedings upon such
writs all e governed and regulated, in all cases, by the
principles and practice now prevailing in respect to writs of
manda and prohibition respectively.

. This act shall be in force from its passage.