Chap. 234.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Eliza B. Burch, of Petersburg, Va.

Approved February 5, 1896.

Whereas sundry lots and parcels of land situated in the city of
Petersburg along, or near to the boundary line between said city and
the county of Prince George, belonging to Mistress Eliza B. Burch,
of said city, acquired by her as a devisee under the will of the late
Patrick Foley, of said city, and as an heir at law of a devisee of said
testator, which said lots and parcels of land for several years have
stood on the land books of said city in the name of the estate of said
testator ; and whereas since the year eighteen hundred and seventy-
five sundry errors and omissions have been made in the entries in
said land books in respect to said lands, some of them to the preju-
dice of said Eliza B. Burch, some to the prejudice of the common-
wealth, and some to the prejudice of said city; and whereas as a re-
sult of said erroneous entries there have accumulated sundry delin-
quent and past due state and corporation taxes, and the liens thereof
have embarrassed the sale of said lands to the prejudice of all parties
concerned; and whereas relief may be granted by a correction of said
errors and omissions and the proper apportionment of said several
delinquent and past-due state and corporation taxes among the
several lots and parcels of said land into which the same has been
subdivided, so that each lot or parcel thereof will be charged with
and subject only to the liens of so much of said state and corpora-
tion taxes as properly belong to such lot or parcel of land: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be lawful and competent for the corporation court of said city, upon
the application of said Eliza B. Burch, her assignees, devisees, or
heirs at law, made within six months from the passage of this act,
to correct all errors and omissions in the land books aforesaid in the
assessments of the lots or parcels of land aforesaid, to apportion the
state and city taxes aforesaid, according to the assessments of said
lots or parcels of land as the same shall be so corrected, the liens o!
said taxes and of the charges, penalties, and interest thereon, tc
affect and bind each particular lot or parcel of land only to the
amount thereof to be so apportioned to such lot or parcel.

2. Said corporation court, in correcting said errors and omissions
shall not be restricted by the limitation of time prescribed by sec.
tions five hundred and sixty-seven and five hundred and seventy-one
of the code of Virginia, but shall make no order affecting the rights
of said city until the city attorney of said city, as well as the attor
ney for the commonwealth for said city, shall have been notified of
the proceedings under this act: provided, however, that nothing in
this act shall be construed as authorizing the said court to release
any taxes to which the commonwealth or city of Petersburg may be
by.law entitled, the object of this act being to properly apportion.
among the several lots and parcels of land aforesaid, the delinquent
state and city taxes lawfully due thereon.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.