Chap. 9.—An ACT to prescribe the method of proving the ordinances
and joint resotutions of municipal corporations.

Approved January 18, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all ordinances and joint resolutions of any municipal corpora-
tion in the commonwealth shall be sufficiently proved in any
court or cause by producing a copy of the same, certified by
the clerk of the corporation, or a printed copy of the same:
provided such printed copy purports to have been printed
by the authority of the corporation; but in the latter case,
without prejudice to the right of any party in interest to
prove, by competent evidence, any error in the printed copy
as compared with the ordinance or joint resolution as passed.

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