Chap. 898.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2910 of the eode of Virginiain
relation to warrants for small clatins as amended and re-enacted by chapter 74
of the acts of assembly Tsso-"90, as amended and re-enacted by chapter d41 of
the acts of assembly of 1803-04.

Approved March 3, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section two
thousand nine hundred and forty of the code of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by chapter seventy-four of the acts of assembly, elvhteen
hundred and cighty-nine and ninety, entitled an act. to amend and re-
enact sections two thousand nine hundred and forty and two thousand
nine hundred and forty-one of the code of Virginia, in relation to war-

rauts for small claims, approved February seventeenth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, as amended and re-enacted by chapter five hundred
and forty-one of the acts of assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety-
three-fonr, approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be
amen dad and re-chacted so as to re: id as follows:
§ 2940. A justice, when applied to by any person shall issue a war-
rant directed to a constable or the sheriff of the county, a constable 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 exceeding thirty days from
the date thereof, to answer such claim. It shall be made returnable to
some place within the magisterial district 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 corpo-
ration other than that in which the defendant or any of them resides:
provided that any corporation or company shall be construed as to this act to
reside in any county or corporation through which its line (if it be a transpor-
tation company) runs, or in which it conducts business, The warrant may
be executed in any part of the county or corporation on any defendant
who resides or may be found therein. If the warrant be against a cor-
poration, it shall be served as process or notice is served under section
three thousand two hundred and twenty-five, and to that end the justice
issuing the warrant shall make and dcliver 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.