Chap. 251.—An ACT to repeal sections 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, and 1291; section
1292, as amended by an act approved March 6, 1900; sections 1293 and 1294
of the Code of Virginia.

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
twelve hundred and eighty-seven, twelve hundred and eighty-eight, twelve
hundred and eighty-nine, twelve hundred and ninety, and twelve hun-
dred and ninety-one; section twelve hundred and ninety-two, as amended
by an act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred; sections twelve hun-
dred and nincty-three and twelve hundred and ninety-four of the Code
of Virginia, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

%. Such repeal shall not affect or impair any act done or right estab-
lished, accruing, accrued, or acquired, or any liability, penalty, forfeit-
ure, 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general assembly, repealed by the preceding section, but the same may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extent as if the same had not been repealed.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, repeaied by
the preceding section, and pending at the date of the passage and ap-
proval 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eral assembly, repealed by the preceding section.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.