Chap. 128.—An ACT to repeal sections 1304, 1305, and 1309 of the Code of Vir-
ginia.

Approved March 12, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
thirteen hundred and. four, thirteen: hundred and five, and thirteen hun-
dired and nine of the Code of Virginia be, and the same are hereby, re-
pealed.

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
virtue of any provision of the Code, or amendment thereof, or act of the
general assembly, repealed by the preceding section ; but the same may be
asserted, 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as if the same had not been repealed.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or amendment thereof, or act of the general assembly, repealed by the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 gen-
eral assembly, repealed by the preceding section.

3. An emergency existing for the immediate passage of this act, the
same shall be in force from its passage.