Chap. 244.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 7th Section of the
170th Chapter of the Code of 1860 in relation to the Service of Process
or Notice to a Corporation.

‘Approved March 26, 1873.

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

§ 7. It shall be sufficient to serve any process against or
notice to a corporation on its mayor, rector, president, or other
chief officer ; or, in his absence from the county or corporation
in which he resides, or in which is the principal office of the
corporation against or to which the process or notice is, if it be
a city or town, on the president of the council or board of
trustees; or, in his absence, on the recorder or any alderman
or trustee; and if it be not a city or town, on the cashier or
treasurer; and if there be none such, or he be absent, on a
member of the board of directors, trustees or visitors. If the
case be against a bank of circulation, and be in a county or
corporation wherein the bank has a branch, service on the pre-
sident or cashier of such branch bank shall be sufficient; and
if the case be against some other corporation, whether incor-
porated by the laws of this state or any other state or country
transacting business in this state, or any agent thereof, or any
person declared by the laws of this state to be an agent of such
corporation ; and if there be no such agent in the county or
corporation, publication of a copy of the process or notice, as
an order is published under the eleventh section of this chap-
ter, shall be sufficient. Service on any person under this sec-
tion shall be in the county or corporation in which he resides;
and the return shall show this, and state on whom and when
the service was, otherwise the service shall not be valid.

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