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An Act to amend the 1st and 2nd sections of an act to suppress Gaming. 1863 43 (1863.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0827 and id is 1 raw text is: NOTICES.-UIiNG. presence or fear of the eomy, under acts of the general assembly, i tnentart- fduciarics have qualified, and instruments creating trusts have been corded recorded, or may hereafter qualify, and instrumeits be hereafter re- corded in other counties than those that would have taken jurisdiction but for such presence or fear of the enemy, it shall be lawful for such now accounts fiduciary to have his accounts settled, when practicable, before a' ay bSttl conmissioner of the county where the order would have been made or the instrument recorded. but for the presence or fear of said enemy; which settlement shall be made and reported by said court to the court wherein such order was made, or such instrument recorded; and the same subsequent proceedings shall be had touching the saute as if made by a commissioner of said court. 4. Within six mouths after jurisdiction has been resumed and con- Where to be re- tinned over the counties. referred to in the first section hereof, the turned and re- fiduciary whose accounts have been settled aid recorded under this corded act, shall cause a copy of the same to be returned to, and recorded in the county where the same should have been settled but for the presence or fear of the enemy ; ad if he fail to do so, ie shall de- Penalty rive no benefitwhatever fromA the settlement made pursuant to this act. ,5. If any such fiduciary shall fail to *cause a copy of any settle- Duty of clerk in, ment made under this act'to be returned and recorded as provided in of falure the fourth section, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court in by fiduciary which the same is recorded to do so at the cost of such fiduciary. 6. This act shall take effect from its passage, and shall coltinue Commencement in force until the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Con- federate States and the United States, and no longer. CHAP. 41.-An ACT prescribing the mode of serving Notices in certain cases. Passed February 12, l6l. 1. Be it enacted by the general assemblv, that a notice of any M otion, how motion which may be made under the act entitled an act authorizing made the recovery of m oney stolen from the Exchange Bank of Virginia at Weston, passed March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- two, may be seived by the publication thereof, once a week for four successive weeks, in a newspaper printed in the city of Richmond. 2. This act shall be in force fr, its passage. Commencement CHAP. 42.-An ACT to amend the 1st and 2d sections of an act to suppress Gaming, passed October 1th, 1863. Parsed Mlareh 10, 1$64. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, that tle first and second Act of 1e3 sections of chapter one hundred and ninety-eight of the Code of amended Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and sixty), as amended by al act to suppress gaming, passed October sixteenth, eighteen hunlred and sixty-three, be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: § 1. A free person who shall keep or exhibit a gaming table, Penalty for ex- commonly called A B C, or E 0 table, or fErn bank, or table of like hiiting faro, &c kind, under any denomination, whether the game or table be played with cards, or any evasive substitute for cards, dice, or otherwise, or fliho shall be a partner, or concerned in interest, or employed or en- gaged in any manner in the keeping or exhibiting such table or hank, or who shall permit the keeping or exhibition of such table or bank in any room or apartment of his house or premises, shall, upon con- Infamousoffence viction thereof, he deemed to be guilty of an infamous offence, in the nieaning of the constitution of this state, and shall be confined in jail not less than two nor more than twelve months, and be fined not less

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