Chap. 436.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the Code of Virginia,
and other acts amendatory thereto.

Approved March 29, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section three
thousand one hundred and seventy-nine of the Code of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section three thousand one hundred and seventy-nine of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in reference to clerk’s offices,approved February fifth, nineteen hun-
dred, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact section three thousand one hundred and seventy-nine of the
Code of Virginia, in reference to clerk’s office, approved February fifth,
nineteen hundred, so as to close the clerk’s office of the courts of Norfolk
county and city of Portsmouth on all legal holidays, approved February
eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§ 3179. Clerk’s offices to be kept open on certain days; records, and so
forth, open to inspection; copies authorized.—The clerk’s office of every
court shall be kept open every day, except Sunday, during convenient
hours for the transaction of business. The records and papers of every
court shall be open to the inspection of any person, and the clerk shall,
when required, furnish copies thereof, except in cases where it is other-
wise specially provided.

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