Chap. 259.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 16th section of chapter
182 of the Code of 1860, as amended by the act passed March 3d, 1866,
concerning Course of Appeals, Writs of Error and Supersedeas.

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Passed February 27, 1867.

[. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the six-
teenth section of chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the
Code of Virginia, as-amended and re-enacted by the act
passed March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in rela-
tion to appeals and writs of error and supersedeas, be
amended and re-enacted..so as to read as follows:
“$16. No appeal, writ of error or supersedeas shall be
allowed to or from a judgment, decree or order of a district
court in any case in which the judgment, decree or order of
the circuit court shall be wholly affirmed as to matters of
substance, and in which the subject matter in controversy
shall not exceed one thousand dollars, unless the said district
court shall enter of record, at the same time at which the
case is decided, that it involved questions of such novelty or
difficulty as to make it proper that. it should be finally deter-
mined in the supreme court of appeals; and in any other case,
decided in a district court, in which the supreme court of
appeals is not prohibited by the constitution from taking
jurisdiction, an appeal, writ of error or supersedeas shall lie
to or from the supreme court of appeals.”

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