Chap. 11.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section ten of Chapter one
hundred and fifty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-.
three, in reference to the Docket of Causes in the Court of Appeals.

Approved January 7, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section ten
of chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as.
to read as follows:

§ 10. Annually before the court of appeals commences its
sessions at Richmond, Wytheville, and Staunton, respectively,
the clerk at such place shall make out a docket of the causes
then ready for hearing. Those at each place shall be num-
bered by figures, and shall be docketed in the order in which
the causes were matured, and be heard in the same order,
except that upon the dockets at Wytheville and Staunton,
the clerk shall docket the causes from each circuit separately,
in the order in which they may be matured; and the causes
from the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Page, and
Shenandoah, of the twelfth circuit, may be heard at Win-
chester, in the county of Frederick, at such time as the court
may fix for hearing said causes: provided however, that the
same shall be heard within the period of time allotted for the
holding of the court at Staunton. The clerk of the court at
Staunton shall take charge of the cases assigned to be heard
at Winchester, and shall attend said court and have the
custody of: the records of said cases until the same shall be
disposed of, and then returned to the office of the clerk of
the court at Staunton at the end of each session .at Win-
chester.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.