An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Chap. 138.—An ACT tu amend and re-enact secon 7, chapter 158 of the
Code of: Virginia, in relation to the Adjourned Terms of the Circuit
Court of the City of Norfolk.
Passed Jiantary 2, Tsou.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven of chapter one hundyed and. fifty-cight of the
Code of Virginia be and the same is hereby amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
“$87, It shall be lawful for the circuit court of the city of
Norfolk to adjourn over, annually, on or before the twenty-
eighth day of November, and to ‘take a recess thenceforth
until the tenth day of January next ensuing; to resume its
sessions on the last named day, and continue to hold the
same until the tenth day of February mext ensuing, and no
longer. In any cause upon the docket of said court, standing
upon an office judgment at the time the court so adjourns
over and takes the recess aforesaid, execution may issue and
be levied, and the cause be otherwise proceeded with as if
the court had adjourned to the next regular spring term:
and any person or persons convicted in said court of any
criminal offence, may be sentenced by said court prior to
taking the recess aforesaid, and the sentence be earricd into
execution, as if the court had then adjourned to the next
regular spring term thereof. If, from any cause, the said court
should not resume its sessions on the tenth day of January
aforesaid, it may nevertheless be opened and held in accord-
ance with the provisions of the fourteenth section of chapter
one hundred and sixty-one of the Code. Nothing in this
act shall operate to cause any discontinuance of, or in any
way invalidate, any process issued, or any recognizance taken,
or notice given, returnable to the present or any future fill
term of said court; but every such process, recognizance or
notice shall be construed and held. and shall avail as if the
said court had been reeularly adjourned from day to day
during the period of the recess aforesaid. Nor shall any
allowance be made to any ofKeer of the court for attending
any such adjourned:session. But witnesses shall not be re-
quired to attend, and shall not be entitled to demand or
receive compensation for attendance during said period or
recess, Before the said court shall resume its sessions on the
tenth day of January, as aforesaid, the clerk shall place upon
the dockets of ‘said court, to be tried or disposed of for the
terms, all such eases mentioned in the first and second sec-
tions of chapter one hundred and seventy-seven, as should
be placed upon said dockets, if the terms thus resumed were
regular terms, commencing on the said tenth day of January,
as aforesaid.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passae.
Chap. 138.—An ACT tu amend and re-enact secon 7, chapter 158 of the
Code of: Virginia, in relation to the Adjourned Terms of the Circuit
Court of the City of Norfolk.
Passed Jiantary 2, Tsou.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven of chapter one hundyed and. fifty-cight of the
Code of Virginia be and the same is hereby amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
“$87, It shall be lawful for the circuit court of the city of
Norfolk to adjourn over, annually, on or before the twenty-
eighth day of November, and to ‘take a recess thenceforth
until the tenth day of January next ensuing; to resume its
sessions on the last named day, and continue to hold the
same until the tenth day of February mext ensuing, and no
longer. In any cause upon the docket of said court, standing
upon an office judgment at the time the court so adjourns
over and takes the recess aforesaid, execution may issue and
be levied, and the cause be otherwise proceeded with as if
the court had adjourned to the next regular spring term:
and any person or persons convicted in said court of any
criminal offence, may be sentenced by said court prior to
taking the recess aforesaid, and the sentence be earricd into
execution, as if the court had then adjourned to the next
regular spring term thereof. If, from any cause, the said court
should not resume its sessions on the tenth day of January
aforesaid, it may nevertheless be opened and held in accord-
ance with the provisions of the fourteenth section of chapter
one hundred and sixty-one of the Code. Nothing in this
act shall operate to cause any discontinuance of, or in any
way invalidate, any process issued, or any recognizance taken,
or notice given, returnable to the present or any future fill
term of said court; but every such process, recognizance or
notice shall be construed and held. and shall avail as if the
said court had been reeularly adjourned from day to day
during the period of the recess aforesaid. Nor shall any
allowance be made to any ofKeer of the court for attending
any such adjourned:session. But witnesses shall not be re-
quired to attend, and shall not be entitled to demand or
receive compensation for attendance during said period or
recess, Before the said court shall resume its sessions on the
tenth day of January, as aforesaid, the clerk shall place upon
the dockets of ‘said court, to be tried or disposed of for the
terms, all such eases mentioned in the first and second sec-
tions of chapter one hundred and seventy-seven, as should
be placed upon said dockets, if the terms thus resumed were
regular terms, commencing on the said tenth day of January,
as aforesaid.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passae.