THE

AMENDED CODE

OF

WEST VIRGINIA,

CONTAINING ALL THE CHAPTERS OF THE CODE OF 1868,
AS AMENDED BY SUBSEQUENT LEGISLATION
TO AND INCLUDING THE ACTS OF 1883.

WITH AN ADDENDA

CONTAINING ALL THE ACTS OF A GENERAL NATURE NOT AMENDA-
TORY OF THE CODE, IN FORCE IN THE STATE ON

THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY, 1884,

AND TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE

AMENDED CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE.

Compiled by

JOHN A. WARTH,

OF THE KANAWHA BAR.

STANFORD LIBRARY

CHARLESTON, W. VA.,

KANAWHA GAZETTE BOOK AND JOB ROOMS,

1884.

Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1884, by

WARTH & BRIGGS,

in the office of the Librariau of Congress at Washington.

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AUG 7 1936

PREFACE.

In the year 1868 the Legislature of West Virginia enacted a code
of laws for the State, and every succeeding session made more or
less amendments to it.

In the year 1872 a new constitution for the State was adopted,
which made many changes necessary in the statute laws which were
speedily enacted.

In the year 1879 the Legislature proposed amendments to the new
constitution which were, in the year 1880, ratified by the people.
These amendments to the constitution made further changes neces-
sary, in the statute law, that were speedily enacted.

These changes, mostly enacted as amendments to the Code, are
scattered through the Acts of the different sessions of Legislature
and are now so numerous that no person, without much labor and
research, can tell what the law is, on any subject.

The compiler of this work has, at the expense of much labor and
care, taken the amendments to the Code of 1868 and inserted each
in its proper place, with a reference showing the Acts and page from
which it was taken, so that the reader will see, in this work, the law
as the Legislature has made it.

There are some Acts that seem to modify the law as contained in
the Code, without amending any of its chapters or sections. These
Acts have, generally, in this work, been placed in the chapters of the
Code containing the same subject, but within a parenthesis, so that
the reader will see, at a glance, what is so inserted in a chapter.

TO THE AMENDED CODE there is an ADDENDA that contains all
the Acts of the Legislature in force in the State, of a general nature,
not enacted or inserted in its chapters, and to it is prefixed the CON-
STITUTION (as amended,) OF THE STATE, so that the reader is pre-
sented with the constitution and statute laws of the State in one
volume, to which is added a copious INDEX.

This compilation is a private enterprise, intended to supply a
pressing public want.

The notes of reference will enable any one to test the accuracy of
this work by comparing the law, as stated in it, with the Code of
1868, and the Acts from which the amendments and other laws are
taken.
JOHN A. WARTH.

June, 1884.