Chap. 345.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to liens on crops for advances
to farmers.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-four hundred and ninety-four of the Code of Virginia, as here-
tofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§2494. Lien on crops for advance to farmers; nature of agreement
thereof; where recorded.—If any person, other than a landlord, make
advances, either in money or supplies, or other thing of value, to anyone
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 the lands in or about
the cultivation of which the advances so made have been, or were in-
tended to be, expended to the extent of such advances: provided, however,
that an agreement in writing, signed by both parties, shall be entered
into, in which shall be specified the amount advanced or in which a limit
shall be fixed beyond which any advances made from time to time during
the year shall not go, and the said agreement to be delivered to the clrek
of the county 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 from the time they are so docketed shall have the
same force and effect as if they were recorded in the deed book, and for
such service said clerk shall receive a fee of twenty-five cents, which lien
shall be valid as to purchasers without notice from and creditors of the
party or parties obtaining such advance or advances only from the time
hen the said agreement shall have been delivered to the said clerk to
. docketed as hereinbefore provided.