CHAP. 335.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 89 of an act entitled
an act to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and as-
surance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration,
with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws
of the States enacting the same, approved February 24, 1916.

(H. B. 531.)
Approved March 20, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eighty-nine of an act entitled an act to provide for the
settlement, registration, transfer and assurance of titles to land,
and to establish courts of land registration, with jurisdiction
for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the States
enacting the same, approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen
hundred and sixteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

Sec. 89. Referendum.—This act shall not apply to land in
any city or county, except the cities of Richmond, Petersburg,
Fredericksburg, Williamsburg and Portsmouth, and the coun-
ties of Henrico, Chesterfield, Mecklenburg, Charlotte, Prince
George, Surry, Roanoke, Cumberland, Buckingham, Brunswick,
Dinwiddie, Hanover, King William, Fairfax, Albemarle, New
Kent, Charles City, James City, York, Warwick, Halifax, Pow-
hatan, Spotsylvania, Lunenburg, Appomattox, Fluvanna, Prince
William, Botetourt, Goochland, Greensville, Sussex, Mathews,
Middlesex, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Campbell, South-
ampton, Louisa, Orange, Stafford, Rappahannock, Bedford and
Prince Edward, until it shall be so determined by the votes of a
majority of those voting for or against the adoption thereof at
any general or special election to be held in such city or county,
after notice thereof shall have been duly posted for at least
thirty days at each voting precinct in such city or county by
order of the judge of the corporation court of such city or the
circuit court of such county upon the petition of one hundred
freeholders residing in such city or fifty freeholders residing
in such county, the question to be submitted by ballots upon
which the words “for land registration” and “against land regis-
tration” shall be printed, and one or the other of said expres-
sions being stricken out as the voter may favor or oppose the
act. ,