Chap. 45.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Vir.
ginia, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend
and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to lien
on crops for advances to farmers; nature of agreement therefor; where
and in what manner docketed, and the effect thereof, and the clerk’s fee
therefor,” approved February 29, 1892.

Approved February 20, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section two
thousand four hundred and ninety-four of the Code of Virginia, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled
an act to amend and re-enact section two thousand four hundred and
ninety-four of the Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,
approved February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

' $2494. Lien on crops for advances to farmers; nature of agreement
thereof; where recorded.—If a person other than a landlord make ad-
vances, either in money or supplics, to any one who is engaged in, or is
about to engage in, the cultivation of the soil, the person so making such
advances shall be entitled to a lien on the crops which may be made or
seeded during the year upon land, in or about the cultivation of which
the advances so made have been or were intended to be expended to the
extent of such advances: provided, however, that an agreement in writin

shall be entered into before any such advances are made, in which shal
be specified the amount to be advanced, or in which a limit shall be fixed,
beyond which the advances made, from time to time, during the year,
shall not go, and the said agreement be delivered to the clerk of the circuit
court in which the land lies, and by him docketed in a book to be kept by
him for that special purpose. Such agreement shall be docketed by said
clerk in the same manner that judgments are now required by law to be
docketed, and shall have the same force and effect as if they were re-
corded in the deed-book, and for such service said clerk shall receive a fee
of twenty-five cents.