Chap. 164.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact section 7 of chapter 166 of Code of 1878, in relation to service
of process against or notice to a corporation.

Approved November 29, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven, chapter one hundred and sixty-six of Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act
approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section seven,
chapter 166 of Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
in relation to service of process against or notice to a corpo-
ration, be amended and re-enacted so as to real 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, or the president of the council, or board
of trustees, or in his absence, or 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
‘president or cashier of such branch bank shall be sufficient ;
and if the case be against some other corporation, whether
incorporated by the laws of this state or any other.state or
country, transacting business in this state, or any agent there-
of, 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 pro-
cess or notice as an order is published under the eleventh
section of this chapter, shall be sufficient. Service on any
person under this section shall be in the county or corpora-
tion in which he resides, or in which the principal office of
the company is located; and the return shall show this, and
state on whom, and when the service was, otherwise the ser-
vice shall not be valid.

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