Chap. 62.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3179 of the code of Vir-
ginia as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and
re-enact section 3179 of the code of Virginia in reference to clerks’ offices,”
approved February 5, 1900, so as to close the clerks’ offices of the courts of
Norfolk county and city of Portsmouth on all legal holidays.

Approved February 11, 1901.

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 Virginia in reference to clerks’ oflices.” approved February fifth, nine-
teen hundred, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$3179. Clerks’ offices to be kept open on certain days, records, and so
forth, open to inspection, copies authorized.—The elerk’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: provided, that the clerks’ offices of the courts
of the county of Norfolk and the city of Portsmouth shall be closed on
all days declared to be legal holidays by the general assembly of Virginia.

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