Chap. 394.——An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7, chapter 166,
of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved March 18th,
1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 7, chapter 166, of
Code of 1873, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-
enact section 7 of chapter 166, Code of 1873, approved February
17, 1886, in relation to service of process against or notice to a

corporation.
Approved March 3, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven, chapter one hundred and sixty-six, of the 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
one hundred and sixty-six, of Code of eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section seven of chapter one hundred and sixty-
six, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved
February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, in re-
lation to service of process against or notice to a corporation,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 7. Process against or notice to a corporation may be served
as follows: If the case be against a city or town, on its mayor,
recorder or any alderman, councilman or trustee of such city
or town; if against a bank, on its president, cashier, treasurer
or any one of its directors; if against a railroad company, on
its president, cashier, treasurer, general superintendent or any
one of its directors ; if against some other corporation created
by the laws of this state, on its president, rector or other chief
officer, cashier, treasurer, secretary or any of its directors,
trustees or visitors; if against a corporation created by some
other state or country, or in any case rf there be not in the
county or corporation wherein the case is commenced, any
other person on whom there can be service as aforesaid, on any
agent of the corporation against which the case is, unless it be
a case against a bank, or on 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 wherein the case is
commenced, publication of a copy of the process or notice once
a week for four successive weeks, in a newspaper printed in this
state, shall be a sufficient service of such process or notice. Ser-
vice on any person under this section shall be by delivering to
him a copy of the process or notice in the county or corpora-
tion wherein he resides, or is acting as agent, or the principal
office of the corporation is located, and the return shall show
this, and state on whom and*when the service was, otherwise
it shall not be valid. If the process or notice be served on an
agent, or be served in any other county or corporation than
wherein the suit or other proceding is brought or had, it shall
be served at least ten days before the return day of such pro-
cess or notice. The term agent, as employed in this section,
shall be construed to include a telegraph operator, depot or
station agent of a railroad company, and toll-gatherer of a
canal or turnpike company, and where any corporation is oper-
ated by a trustee or trustees for its benefit, or for the benefit of
its creditors or the holders of its bonds, it shall be sufficient in.
any suit against such corporation, its trustee or trustees, to
serve the process or notice on such trustees or any one of them,
or on any agent of such trustee or trustees, though said trustee
or trustees be non-residents of the state. Publication of a copy
of the process or notice as an order of publication is made
under this section shall likewise be equivalent to personal ser-
vice on such trustee, or when any corporation is operated by a
lessee or lessees, service as provided above shall be sufficient.
Service on any person under this section shall be in the county
or corporation in which he resides, or in which his place of
business is, 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 service shall not be valid.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.