Chap. 230.—An ACT to Provide for the Removal of Causes and the
Transfer of all Papers, Records, Judgments, and Decrees, from the
Court of Hustings for the town of Harrisonburg, to the County Court of

Rockingham.
Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all causes and matters now pending in the court of hustings
for the town of Harrisonburg, shall be and they are hereby
transferred to the county court of Rockingham, and the clerk
of said county court shall transfer to the docket of his said
court the causes and matters pending and undetermined in
said court of hustings, and all papers and records in said
causes and matters shall be transferred to, and remain in the
custody of, the clerk of said county court.

2. The clerk of said county court shall receive, take charge
of, and preserve, as part of the records of said county, all
papers, causes, records, judgments, executions, and all papers
and records of every kind which, by the law heretofore exist-
ing, were in said court of hustings, either as a record, or as
papers in a cause, or in any other form, and which the clerk of
said court of hustings was, under the law, required to take care
of and preserve.

3. That every deed admitted to record in the clerk’s office
of said court and the recordation thereof; every judgment and
decree rendered in said court and the docketing thereof; every
execution issued from said clerk’s office, and every proceeding
and record, of whatever description, had in said court or in
said oftice, shall be of the same force, virtue, and effect, as if
said deed had been admitted to record in the clerk’s office of
the county court of Rockingham, or if said judgment or de-
cree had been rendered in the said county court, and the
docketing thereof had been in the clerk’s office of said court;
or if said proceeding or record, of whatever description, had
been had in the said county court, or in the clerk’s office
thereof, at the same date.

4. That if any cause formerly or now pending in said court
of hustings, shall have been or shall hereafter be taken to an
appellate court, then the affirmance of the judgment or decree
rendered in any such cause shall be certified to the clerk of
said county court, and upon reversal of any such judgment
or decree, the cause shall be remanded (if such order be neces-
sary) to the said county court for further proceedings.

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