Chap. 163.—An ACT to Amend Section 3, Chapter 16, Code of Virginia
of 1860, in Reference to the time when the Acts of the General As-
sembly shall take effect.

Approved March 13, 1873.

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

§ 3. Every act of assembly shall commence and be in force
upon and after the first day of July next succeeding the pas-
sage thereof, unless another day for the commencement thereof
be particularly mentioned in the act itself, or be otherwise ex-
pressly provided; and the day of passing every act (which may
be passed after this act takes effect) shall be noted in the
publication next after the title thereof.

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