Chap. 235.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5, of chapter 148,
of the Code of 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
January 26, 1877, in relation to attachments.

Approved March 12, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
five, of chapter one hundred and forty-eight, of the Code of
Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
as amended and re-enacted by an act, approved January
twenty-six, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, in relation
to attachments, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§5. If any person has any claim against the master or
owner of any steamboat or other vessel, raft, or river craft,
or against any steamboat or other vessel, raft, or river craft,
found within the jurisdiction of this state, for materials or
supplies furnished or provided, or for work done for, in or
upon the same, or for wharfage, salvage, pilotage, or for any
contract for transportation of, or any injury done to any
person or property by such steamboat or other vessel, raft,
or river craft, or by any person having charge of her, or in
her employment, such person shall have a lien upon such
steamboat or other vessel, raft, or river craft, for such mate-
rials or supplies furnished, work done, or services rendered,
wharfage, salvage, pilotage, and for such contract or injur
as aforesaid; and may in a pending suit, sue out of the clerk’s
Office of the circuit court of the county, or of the corporation
court or circuit court of the corporation, in which such
steamboat or other vessel, raft, or river craft, may be found,
an attachment against such steamboat or other vessel, raft,
or river craft, with all her tackle, apparel, furniture, and
appurtenances, or against the estate of such master or
owner. Any attachment may be sued out under this section
for a cause of action that may have arisen without the juris-
diction of this state, as well as within it, if the steamboat or
other vessel, raft, or river craft, bé within the jurisdiction of
this state at the time the attachment is sued out or executed.

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