Chap. 90.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3361 of the Code of Virginia.
Approved February 26, 1908.

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

§3361. No commission (except as provided in section twenty-five
hundred and thirty-seven) shall hereafter be necessary to take a deposi-
tion, whether within or without the State. But any party to an action
at law or suit in chancery may sue out of the clerk’s office of the court.
in which said action at law or suit in chancery is pending, a commis-
sion to take depositions in any State where, by the statutes of such
State, a commission may be necessary. The clerk of said court, upon
application, shall issue such commission designating therein the person
before whom said depositions are to be taken, said person being one of
the officers named in section thirty-three hundred and sixty of the Code
of Virginia, as authorized to take depositions, and shall also state the
time and place of taking the same.

2. By reason of the difficulty in taking depositions in certain cases, an
emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from
its passage.