Chap. 19.—An AcT to amend and re-enact the 3d section of chapter 182
of the Code of 1860, limiting the time within which certain appeals may
be granted.

Passed March 15, 1867,

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the third
section of chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the Code
of eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and re-enacted
so as: to read as follows:

Ҥ3. No petition shall be presented for an appeal from or
¥rit gf error or supersedeas to any final judgment, decree or
order, whether the commonwealth be a party or not, which
shall have been rendered more than two years before the pe-
tition is presented; nor to any judgment of a county or cor-
poration court which is rendered on an appeal from a judg-
ment of a justice; nor to a judgment, decree or order of any
other court, when the controversy is tor a matter less in value
or amount than one hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, unless
there he drawn in question a freehold or franchise, or the title
or bounds of land, or some matter not merely pecuniary.”

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

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