Chap. 35.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend section
1, chapter 147, Code of 1878, in relation to the Jurisdiction of Justices,
approved February 27, 1880.

In force January 28, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to amend section one, chapter one hun-
dred and forty-seven, Code of cighteen hundred and seventy-
three, in relation to the jurisdiction of justices, approved Feb-
ruary twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty, be
amended and re-enacted so that the said section one of the
said chapter one hundred and torty-seven of the said Code,
shall read as follows:

§1. Any claim to property or to any debt, fine or other
money, or to damages for breach of any contract, or for any
injury done to property, real or personal, which would be re-
coverable by action at law, or suit in equity, shall, when the
claim is to a fine, if the amount be limited to an amount not
exceeding twenty dollars, and in other cases if the claim be
not of greater value or amount than one hundred dollars (ex-
clusive ot interest), be cognizable by a justice, and even if the
claim be for or against “the town or county in which such
justice resides ; but in every case where the amount or thing
in controversy exceeds the sum or value of twenty dollars,
the justice shall, upon the application of the defendant, at any
time before trial, remove the cause and all the papers ‘thereof
to the court of the county or corporation wherein the same
shall be brought, and after such papers shall have been re-
ceived by the clerk of said court at least ten days, he shall
docket the same, and it shall be proceeded in as if it were a
motion ready for hearing in said court under the sixth section
of chapter one hundred and sixty-three.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.