Chap. 65.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 17, Chapter 157,
Cod2 of 1860, in Reference to the Jurisdiction of County Courts.

Approved February 8, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seventeen, chapter one hundred and fifty-seven of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 17. In a county or corporation court, cases of caveat
pleas of the commonwealth, such motions as are provided for
by the sixth section of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven,
and actions at law, shall be cognizable only at a term thereof
designated for the trial of civil causes in which juries are re-
quired, except that the hustings court of the city of Richmond
shall have cognizance of pleas of the commonwealth at its
monthly terms. All other matters or things authorized by law
to be done by or in such court may be done either at a monthly
or quarterly term.”

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