CHAP. 201.—An ACT to provide for the indexing of deeds and other
records in ledgerized general index books. (S. B. 178.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That

whenever the attention of the judge of any circuit court of any
county or corporation court of any city other than the city of
Richmond, or the chancery court of the city of Richmond, is
called to the need of an improved system of general indexing to
any of the records kept by the clerk of such court, it shall be
the duty of such judge, in his discretion, to appoint a committee
to inquire into the necessity for such indexing and make a re-
port to said court, which report may be made and filed either
In term or in vacation.
_ 2. If such committee shall report that the work is needed,
it shall be the duty of said judge, in his discretion, in term or
In vacation, to authorize and direct said committee to make a
written contract with some responsible and experienced person
or persons for the installing of said work.

The committee so appointed, subject to the approval of the
court, shall contract for a modern family name, or ledgerized,
Alphabetical, key-table index, which shall show such informa-
tion, in addition to names, as said committee may agree upon.

3. Where such index is installed, the same plan of index to
current records shall be adopted and used by the clerks of such
courts, and they shall enter daily thereon all instruments ad-
mitted to record. The clerks keeping such current index shall
not be required to keep a “daily index of receipt of deeds for
recordation,” or an individual index to each book, as provided in
section twenty-five hundred and five of Pollard’s Code.

4. The board of supervisors of the county, or council of the
city herein said indexing shall be directed by the court to be
Jone, shall, if necessary, provide, in laying its annual county or
city levy, a sufficient sum to pay for said indexing and materials.

5. Chapter two hundred and eighty-three of the acts of the
yeneral assembly of nineteen hundred and twelve is hereby re-
9ealed.