Chap. 134.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2719 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, 1887.

Approved March 11, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-seven hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

82719. If any tenant or lessee of premises in a city or town, or in
any subdivision of suburban and other lands divided into building lots for
residential purposes, or of premises anywhere used for residential
purposes, and not for farming or agriculture, being in default in
the payment of rent, shall so continue for five days after notice, in
writing, requiring possession of the premises, or the payment of rent,
such tenant or lessee shall thereby forfeit his right to the possession. In
such case the possession of the defendant may, at the option of the land-
Jord or lessor, be deemed unlawful, and he may proceed to recover in the
same manner provided by this chapter.