Chap. 16.—An ACT to Amend the Third Section of an Act approved May
6, 1870, Fixing the Times for Holding Corporation Courts.

Approved December 22, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the third
section of the act approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and
seventy, entitled an act to fix the times for holding the corpo-
ration courts for the commonwealth, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows, viz:

Ҥ 3. All suits, motions, and other proceedings at law or in
equity, which are now pending in the county court of Alexan-
dria, in which the parties thereto are residents of the city of
Alexandria, or respecting land situate and lying within the
limits of said city, whether the parties be residents or not,
shall be removed to the corporation court of the city of Alex-
andria tor further proceedings therein in the latter court; and
all such suits, motions, or proceedings, respecting lands in said
city, which have been so removed, whether the parties are
residents or not of said city, shail be proceeded in to jndgment
or decree in said corporation court.”

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