Chap. 613.—An ACT to amend and ,re-enact an act entitled “an act to provide
for the payment of debts.due by commission merchants,” approved February
27, 1894, and to provide remedies in respect thereto.

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to provide for the payment of debts due
by commission merchants, approved February twenty-seven, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Whenever any farm product shall have been consigned to any com-
mission merchant for sale, and the said commission merchant shall
become insolvent or die before paying over the proceeds of the sale
thereof to, or on account of, the consignor or owner of said farm pro-
duct, the claim of such consignor or owner, when legally proved,
shall be a lien on the estate of said commission merchant, subject
only to such liens as were created on said estate and recorded prior
to said sale; provided, however, that the benefit of this act shall not
accrue to any consignor or owner who shall allow such proceeds to
remain with such commission merchant at interest, nor to any con-
signer or owner who shall allow such proceeds to remain in the hands
of such commission merchant more than thirty days after becoming
informed of such sale.

2. Jurisdiction is hereby given to courts exercising circuit court

powers in chancery to enforce the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.