Chap. 15.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 6177 of the Code of Virginia
relating to the duties of the clerk, when suit is ordered to be removed, pro-
ceedings in court to which it is removed, and costs attending removal. [S B 48]

Approved February 18, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That section sixty-one hundred seventy-seven of the Code of
Virginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 6177. Clerk’s duty, when suit ordered to be removed ; pro-
ceedings in court to which it is removed ; duties of clerks in suit involving
real estate; costs of removal and all other proceedings therein —When
any case is ordered removed, under this chapter, the clerk of the court
from which, shall transmit to the clerk of the court to which, it is re-
moved, the file of all the papers therein, with copies of all rules, orders
and decrees made, if the original is missing, and a statement of the costs
incurred by each party therein. Whereupon, the case shall be proceeded
in, heard and determined by the court to which ¢t is removed, as if it had
been brought, and the previous proceedings had, in such court. In suits
involving real estate, the clerk of the court to which such suit has been
removed shall prepare and transmit a true copy of any and all orders
and decrees entered in the suit, to the clerk of the former court, and the
clerk of the former court shall record and index all such decrees and or-
ders in the current chancery order book as is required to be done in suits
pending in his court. The costs attending such removal and the pro-
ceedings had in said courts, including decrees and orders entered therein
in both courts, shall be charged against the party or parties to the suit
as may be thought just and equitable by the court finally disposing of
such suit.