Chap. 114.—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 an act approved
March 20, 1916, and as further amended by an act approved March 20, mn“

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Approved March 2, 1920.

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, as amended
by an act approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen,
and as further amended by an act approved March twentieth, nineteen
fundred and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows :

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 coun-
ties of Culpeper, Bedford, Surry, Henrico, Chesterfield, Mecklenburg,
Charlotte, Prince George, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Hanover, King Wil-
liam, Fairfax, New Kent, Charles City, James City, York, Warwick,
Henry, Halifax, Powhatan, Spotsylvania, Lunenburg, Appomattox,
Fluvanna, Prince William, Botetourt, Goochland, Greensville, Sussex,
Mathews, Middlesex, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Campbell,
Southampton, Alexandria, 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 le 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 regis-
tration” 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.