Chap. 399.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 3 of C: apter 1&2 in
the Sub-division of an Act to Amend the Provisions of the Code in Re-
gard to the Supreme Court of Appeals, so as to make them Conform to
the Present Constitution, approved June 23, 1870.

Approved November 8, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the third
section of the one hundred and eighty-second chapter in the
sub-division of the act of the general assembly approved June
twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy, and entitled an
act to amend the provisions of the Code in regard to the su-
preme court of appeals, so as to make them conform to the
new constitution, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

““§ 3. No petition shall be presented for an appeal from, or
writ of 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 peti-
tion is presented, nor to any judgment of a county or corpora-
tion court which 1s rendered on an appeal from a judgment of
& justice, nor to a judgment, decree, or order of any other
court when the controversy is for a matter less in value or
amount than five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, unless
there be drawn in question a freehold, or franchise, or the title
or bounds of land, or some matter not merely pecuniary : pro-
vided, however, that the time from the twenty-sixth day of
January, eighteen hundred and seventy, to the passage of this
act, shall be excluded from the computation of said period of
two years: and provided further, that this act, so far as ap-
peas, writs of error, or supersedeas, heretofore allowed, shall

e deemed and taken to have been passed and been in force
since the passage of the act to which it is amendatory.”

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