Chap. 77.—An ACT to preserve and extend the time for the exercise of
certain Civil Rights and Remedies,

Passed March 2, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the period between the seventeenth day of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, and the passage of this act. shall be
excluded from the computation of the time within which, by
the terms or operation of any statute or rule of law, it may
be necessary to commence any action or other proceeding,
or to do any other act to preserve or to prevent the loss of
any civil right or remedy, or to avoid any fine, penalty or
forfeiture; nor shall the further period from the expiration of
that above prescribed, to six months after a supreme court of
appeals shall be organized under the present government, be
included in the computation of the time within which any
party or parties may be required by statute or rule of law,
to obtain a writ of error, supersedeas, or other process from
the supreme court of appeals of Virginia: provided, that
nothing herein shall be construed to relieve any officer of the
state, or of a county or corporation, from the obligation to
perform, within the time prescribed, any act which it was his
duty to perform at any time since the reorganization, under
the present government, of the county or corporation to
which such officer belongs.

2. All rights and remedies saved or intended to be saved,
and all exemptions from loss or liability of any sort, secured
or intended to be secured by an act passed the fourteenth
day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by the body
then sitting in Richmond, and claiming to be the general
assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to extend the time for
the exercise of certain civil rights and remedies: or by an
act passed by the same body on the twenty-third day of
February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the time
for the exercise of certain rights and remedies, passed March
the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; or by an act
passed by the same body on the eleventh day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled an act to provide
against the forfeiture of compensation to fiduciaries in certain
cases, are hereby confirmed and declared to be as valid and
effectual as if the lawful authority of the body by which the
said acts were passed had never been questioned.

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

Chap. 77.—An ACT to preserve and extend the time for the exercise of
certain Civil Rights and Remedies,

Passed March 2, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the period between the seventeenth day of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, and the passage of this act. shall be
excluded from the computation of the time within which, by
the terms or operation of any statute or rule of law, it may
be necessary to commence any action or other proceeding,
or to do any other act to preserve or to prevent the loss of
any civil right or remedy, or to avoid any fine, penalty or
forfeiture; nor shall the further period from the expiration of
that above prescribed, to six months after a supreme court of
appeals shall be organized under the present government, be
included in the computation of the time within which any
party or parties may be required by statute or rule of law,
to obtain a writ of error, supersedeas, or other process from
the supreme court of appeals of Virginia: provided, that
nothing herein shall be construed to relieve any officer of the
state, or of a county or corporation, from the obligation to
perform, within the time prescribed, any act which it was his
duty to perform at any time since the reorganization, under
the present government, of the county or corporation to
which such officer belongs.

2. All rights and remedies saved or intended to be saved,
and all exemptions from loss or liability of any sort, secured
or intended to be secured by an act passed the fourteenth
day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by the body
then sitting in Richmond, and claiming to be the general
assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to extend the time for
the exercise of certain civil rights and remedies: or by an
act passed by the same body on the twenty-third day of
February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the time
for the exercise of certain rights and remedies, passed March
the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; or by an act
passed by the same body on the eleventh day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled an act to provide
against the forfeiture of compensation to fiduciaries in certain
cases, are hereby confirmed and declared to be as valid and
effectual as if the lawful authority of the body by which the
said acts were passed had never been questioned.

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