Chap. 78.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 3d Section of an Act enti-
tled 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 February 20, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the third section of an act entitled an act to provide for the
removal of causes, and the transfer of all papers, records, judg-
ments, and decrees, from the court of hustings for the town of
Harrisonburg, to the county court of Rockingham, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
““§ 3. That every deed admitted to record in the clerk’s
office of said court, and the recordation thereof; every judg-
ment 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 office, 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 decree had been rendered in 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 courf, or in the clerk’s office
thereof, at the same date. And every deed, for property
within the jurisdiction of said court of hustings, which pro-
perty, under the then existing charter, should have been re-
corded in the clerk’s office of said court, but which was
recorded in clerk’s office of said county, together with the re-
cordation thereof; and every judgment or decree rendered in
said county court, in causes arising within the jurisdiction of
said court of hustings, and the docketing thereof; and every
other proceeding, of whatever description, had in said county
court, or in the clerk’s office thereof, are hereby declared as
valid, and to be of the same force, virtue, and effect, as if the
said court of hustings, and the clerk’s office thereof, had never
had any existence, and the said recordation, and the said
judgment or decree, and the docketing thereof, and the said
proceedings, had then been had in the said county court and
in said clerk’s office; but nothing contained in this section
shall in any way affect or impair rights heretofore acquired.”

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