Chap. 254.—An ACT amending and re enacting the 4th section of the act
entitled ap act amending and re-enacting the 13th section of chapter
157 of the Code, in relation to the office of Judge of the Hustings
Court of the City of Portsmouth.

Passed February 27, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the fourth section of an act entitled an act amending and re-
enacting the thirteenth section of chapter one hundred and
fifty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, so as
to create the office of judge of the hustings court for the city
of Portsmouth, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Ҥ4. The business of the said court, when held by the
said judge, shall be distributed between monthly and quar-
terly terms as now prescribed by law, except that it shall
have cognpzance of pleas of the commonwealth at its monthly
as well as its quarterly terms: but the judge may designate
which of the terms shall be quarterly terms; and though the
court be not held on the first day of a term, it may never-
theless be opened on any subsequent day: provided, it be
done before four o’clock in the afternoon of the sixth day;
and if, after a court is opened, it fail to sit on any day, it
may nevertheless sit on any subsequent day of the term:
provided, there be not more than six consecutive days of
such failure.”

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