Chap. 541.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2940 of the code of Vir-
ginia,in relation to warrants for small claims, as amended and re-enacted by
chapter 74, of the acts of assembly, 1889-90.

Approved March 1, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-nine hundred and forty of the code of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by chapter seventy-four of the acts of assembly,
eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and ninety, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact sections twenty-nine hundred and forty and
twenty-nine hundred and forty-one of the code of Virginia, in re-
lation to warrants for small claims, approved February seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 2940. A justice, when applied to by any person, shall issue a
Warrant directed to a constable or the sheriff of the county, a con-
Stable or sergeant of any corporation wherein the defendant resides,
requiring him to summon the person against whom the claim is to
appear before him or some other justice on a certain day, not ex-
ceeding thirty days from the date thereof, to answer such claim. It
Shall be made returnable to some place within the magisterial dis-
trict in which the defendant, or, if there be more than one, either
defendant, resides, or in which the cause of action arose, unless the
Justice, for good cause shown on oath, direct it to be returned to some
other place within his county or corporation. But in no case shall
a warrant be made returnable in a county or corporation other than
that in which the defendants or any one of them resides. The war-
rant may be executed in any part of the county or corporation on
any defendant who resides or may be foundtherein. If the warrant
be against a corporation, it shall be served as process or notice is
served under section thirty-two hundred and twenty-five, and to that
end the justice issuing the warrant shall make and deliver a copy
thereof along with the warrant to the officer required to serve the
same.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.