Chap. 45.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6348 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. [S B 56]

Approved February 17, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
ixty-three hundred and forty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as
mended by an act approved March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and
wenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6348. When appeal, etc., allowed; when supersedeas
warded ; when petition to be rejected; when rejection final—The
court or judge, to whom the petition is duly presented, if of opinion
that the decision complained of ought to be reviewed, may allow an
appeal or writ of error, and in either case may award a supersedeas
to stay proceedings in whole or in part. Upon presentation of such
yetition, either to the court or any judge, counsel for the petitioner
shall be afforded, if he so desires, reasonable opportunity to state
orally his reason or reasons why such appeal or writ of error should
be granted. The petition shall be rejected when it is from an inter-
locutory decree or order, if the court or judge to whom it is presented
deems it proper that the case should be proceeded in further in the
court below before an appeal is allowed therein. If the court shall
deem the judgment, decree, or order complained of plainly right,
and reject the petition on that ground, the order of rejection shall
so state, and no other petition therein shall afterwards be enter-
tained. But the rejection of such petition by a judge in vacation shall
not prevent the presentation of such petition to the court at its next
term.