Chap. 193.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 89 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 24, 1916, as amended by acts approved March 20, 1916,
March 20, 1918, and March 2, 1920. [fH B 365]

Approved March 15, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion 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, agd
to make uniform the laws of the States enacting the same, approved
February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended
by acts approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen,
March twentieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and March second,
nineteen hundred and twenty, 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, Lynchburg, Petersburg,
Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, Portsmouth, Alexandria, and the
counties of Culpeper, Bedford, Surry, Henrico, Mecklenburg, Char-
lotte, Prince George, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Hanover, King William,
Fairfax, New Kent, Charles City, James City, York, Warwick, Henry,
Halifax, Powatan, Spotsylvania, Lunenburg, Appomattox, Fluvanna,
Prince William, Botetourt, Goochland, Greensville, Sussex, Mathews,
Middlesex, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Campbell, Southampton,
Arlington, Stafford, Nottoway, Norfolk and Amelia, 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 one-sixth of the qualified voters
residing in such county, the question to be submitted by ballots upon
which the words “For land registration” and “Against land registra-
tion” shall be printed, and one or the other of said expressions being
stricken out as the voter may favor or oppose the act. But no such
election shall be held oftener than once in two years.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.