Chap. 261.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3358 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved March 13, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, hat section
thirty-three hundred and fifty-eight of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3358. What is sufficient evidence of non-residence of witness or
party; how publication in a newspaper is proved.—In any suit, an
affidavit that a witness or party resides out of this State, or is out of
it, shall be prima facie evidence of the fact, although such affidavit be
made by a party, and without previous notice. Where anything is au-
thorized or required by this Code or by any statute to be published in a
newspaper, the certificate of the editor, publisher, business manager or
assistant business manager, or the affidavit of any other person, shall be
admitted as evidence of what is stated therein as to the publication.