Chap. 235.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6452 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, 1919. [H B 206)
Approved March 16, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion six thousand four hundred and fifty-two of the Code of Virginia,
nineteen hundred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Sec. 6452. Lien on crops for advances to farmers; nature and
agreement thereof; where recorded.—lIf any person, other than a land-
lord, make advances, either in money or supplies, or other thing of
value, to any one who is engaged in, or is about to engage in, the
cultivation of the soil, the person so making such advances shall have
a lien on the crops which may be made or seeded during the year upon
the lands in or about the cultivation of which the advances so made
have been, or were intended to be expended, to the extent of such
advances; but the person making such advances shall not have the
benefit of the lien, given in this section, unless there is an agreement,
in writing, signed by both parties, in which there is specified the
amount advanced, or a limit to be fixed beyond which any advances,
made from time to time during the year, shall not go, and the said
agreement be docketed in the office of the clerk of the county in which
the said land so cultivated, or to be cultivated, lies, in a well bound
book to be known as “crop lien book,” and alphabetically indexed
therein, by said clerk, setting forth the date of the lien, a brief de-
scription of the land so cultivated or to be cultivated, sufficient to
locate the same if stated in the writing, the name of the lienor and
the lienee, the amount advanced or the limit thereof, and the crops
affected ; and from the time such lien is docketed and indexed, it shall
have the same force and effect as if recorded in the deed book, and
shall be valid as to purchasers without notice from, and the creditors
of, the parties or party obtaining such advances.

For said services the said clerk shall receive a fee of fifty cents.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.

3. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force and effect
from its passage.