Chap. 109.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2274 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [H B 208]
Approved February 28, 1920.

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

Sec. 2274. Clerks to make out annually lists of deeds; what lists
to contain —The clerk of every court in which deeds are admitted to
record, shall annually, before the fifteenth of February, make out a
list of all deeds for the partition and conveyance of land, other than
deeds of trust and mortgages, made to secure the payment of debts,
which have been admitted to record in the clerk’s office ot such court
within the year ending on the thirty-first day of January next preced-
ing, which list shall state the date of the deed, when admitted tc
record, the name of grantor and grantee, whether the grantee is white
or colored, if known, the quantity of land conveyed, the specified
value thereof, and a description of the same. This list shall on o1
before the fifteenth day of February be delivered by the clerk to the
commissioner for his county or city; or, if there be more commis:
sioners than one, the clerk shall deliver to each a copy, or at least sc
much thereof as relates to lands within his district, and the clerk
shall also forward a copy of said list to the auditor of public accounts ;
and the said clerk shall also make out, on a separate sheet, a list of
‘all deeds of trust and mortgages on land, as well as deeds of trust on
personal property made to secure the payment of debts, which have
been admitted to record in the clerk’s office of such court within the
year ending on the thirty-first day of January next preceding, and such
list shall state the date of the deed of trust or mortgage, when ad-
mitted to record, the name of the grantor, the name of the creditors,
where the name of such creditors are disclosed, and set forth in the
deed of trust or mortgage, and the amount of the debt to each creditor
secured by the deed of trust or to the mortgagee in the mortgage, and
the amount of debt secured thereby and the property conveyed in such
deed of trust or mortgage. Copies of this last mentioned list shall
be furnished by said clerk on or before the fifteenth day of February
to commissioners of the revenue for his county or city, and to the
auditor of public accounts.