Chap. 419.—An ACT to repeal section 1072, as amemied by an act approved
February 13, 1890, and by an act approved February 25, 1892, and by an act
approved March 5, 1894; sections 1073, 1074, 10748 1076, 1077, and 1078; sec-
tion 1079, as amended by an act approved March 29, 1902; sections 1080, 1081,
1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, 1087, and 1088; section 1089 as amended by an act
approved April 2, 1902; sections 1090 and 1091; section 1099, as amended by an
act approved March 5, 1888; section 1100, section 1101 as amended by an act
approved March 28, 1902, and by an act approved March 25, 1903, and section
1102 of chapter 46 of the Code of Virginia.

Became a law without the governor's signature December 11, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ten hundred and seventy-two, as amended by an act approved February
thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by an act approved Feb-
ruary twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and nincty-two, and by an act ap-
proved March fifth, eightcen hundred and nincty-four; sections ten hun-
dred and seventy-three, ten hundred and seventy-four, ten hundred and
seventy-five, ten hundred and seventy-six, ten hundred and seventy-seven,
and ten hundred and seventy-eight; section ten hundred and seventy-
nine, as amended by an act approved March twenty-ninth, nineteea
hundred and two; sections ten hundred and eighty, ten hundred and
eighty-one, ten hundred and cighty-two, ten hundred and eighty-three,
ten hundred and eighty-four, ten hundred and eighty-five, ten hundred
and eighty-six, ten hundred and eighty-seven, and ten hundred and
eighty-eight; section ten hundred and cighty-nine, as amended by an act
approved April second, nineteen hundred and two; sections ten hundred
and ninety and ten hundred and ninety-one: section ten hundred and
ninety-nine, as amended by an act approved March fifth, eighteen hun-
dred and cighty-eight; section eleven hundred, section eleven hundred
and one, as amended by an act approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen
hundred and two, and by an act approved March twenty-fifth, nineteen

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hundred and three, and section eleven hundred and two of chapter forty-
six of the Code of Virginia, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

2. Such repeal shall not affect or impair any act done or right estab-
lished, accruing, accrued, or acquired, or any liability, penalty, forfeiture,
or punishment incurred prior to the passage of this act, under or by vir-
tue of any provision of the Code or amendment thereof, or act of the gen-
eral assembly, repealed by the preceding section, but the same may be as-
serted, enforced, prosecuted, or inflicted as fully and to the same extent
as if the same had not been repealed. All actions and proceedings, civil
or criminal, commenced under or by virtue of any provision of the Code,
or amendment thereof, or act of the general assembly, repealed by the
preceding section, and pending at the date of the passage and approval
of this act, may be prosecuted and defended to final effect in the same
manner as they might under the laws then existing, unless it’ shall be
otherwise specially provided by law. Nothing in this act contained shall
be construed to impair the charter of any corporation existing at the date
of the passage and approval of this act, or any right or liability which
any existing corporation, its officers, directors, stockholders, or creditors
may have or be subject to, or which any corporation had or was subject
to, at the date of the passage and approval of this act, by virtue of any
provision of the Code, or amendment thereof, or act of the general as-
sembly, repealed by the preceding section.

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