Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
the divorce practice in the State of Virginia, and to provide for the
mailing of a copy of the order of publication against non-resident de-
fendants to his or her last known place of address by registered mail
at least fifteen days before the taking of depositions, approved March
7, 1912. (H. B. 9.)

Approved February 27, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an
act to amend the divorce practice in the State of Virginia, and to
provide for the mailing of a copy of the order of publication against
non-resident defendants to his or her last known place of address
by registered mail at least fifteen days before the taking of depo-
sitions, approved March seventh. nineteen hundred and twelve,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

When in a suit for divorce, either a vinculo matrimonii, or a
memsa et thoro affidavit shall be filed that the defendant is not
a resident of the State of Virginia, upon application therefor in
writing, an order of publication shall be entered against said de-
fendant, either by the court wherein such suit is pending or by the
clerk of said court in vacation, which order shall state the object
of the suit and the grounds thereof, as shown by said applica-
tion, and said order of publication shall be published as required
by law. <A copy of said order of publication shall be forthwith
mailed by the clerk of the court in which said suit is pending after
the same is entered to said defendant at his or her last known ad-
dress, or place of abode, which shall be specifically stated in the
application for said order of publication, and the mauling ot said
copy shall be certified by the clerk to the court, and no depositions
in said suit shall be commenced until at least fifteen days shall have
elapsed after said order of publication shall have been duly pub-
lished as required by law.