Chap. 15.—An ACT providing a mode to supply the loss of the evidence
of service of process in certain cases pending in the Court of Appeals.

Passed March 15, 1867. ;

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That in all cases
depending in the court of appeals, in which the evidence of
service of process upon any of the parties was lost by the
burning of the records in the fire of April, eighteen hundred
and sixty-five, where any party interested shall make oath
that he is unable to astertain the residence of parties on
whom such last process bad been served, such parties may be
summoned to appear by publication, for two months, in some
newspaper published in Richmond; and such summons shall
be deemed equivalent to actual service of process.

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

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