Chap. 175.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 907 of an act
entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the
general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887,
relative to the sale of mules, work oxen, and horses under levy in
the city of Lynchburg. .

Approved February 23, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section nine hundred and seven of an act entitled an act to
revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general stat-
utes of the commonwealth, approved May sixteenth, eighteen

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hundred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§907. If such goods and chattels be mules, work oxen or
horses, they shall be sold at the courthouse of the county or
corporation between the hours of ten in the morning and
four in the afternoon. The sale shall be on the first day of
the term of the court thereof next succeeding that at which
they may be advertised, except where the parties shall at or
before the time for advertising the same, in writing authorize
the officer to dispense with the provisions of this section, in
which case the sale shall be according to the preceding sec-
tion; and except also that sales of such mules, work oxen,
and horses taken within the city of Lynchburg, shall be
made in front of the market-house in the said city.

2, This act shall be in force on and after May first, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-eight.

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