Chap. 140.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act ap-
proved March 10, 1922, entitled “An act to authorized and regulate the
recordation of plats subdividing tracts of land situated within the
corporate limits of any city containing more than one hundred thou-
sand inhabitants according to the last preceding United States census,
or within ten miles of the corporate limits of any such city, into three
or more parts for the purpose of laying out any town, or city, or any
addition thereto, or any part thereof or surburban lots, and to declare
the effect of such recordation; and to repeal an act entitled an act to
prohibit the recordation of plats for the subdivision of land into lots
showing on said plats, streets and alleys, within or within fifteen miles
from, the limits of any city having a population of not less than sixty
thousand nor more than one hundred arfd ten thousand inhabitants,
except in conformity with the plan provided by such city, approved
March 27, 1918.” [S B 86]

Approved March 29, 1928.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act approved March tenth, nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, entitled. ““An act to authorize and regulate the
recordation of plats subdividing tracts of land situated within
the corporate limits of any city containing more than one hun-
dred thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding
United States census, or within ten miles of the corporate limits
of any such city, into three or more parts for the purpose of
laying out any town, or city, or any addition thereto, or any
part thereof or suburban lots, and to declare the effect of such
recordation; and to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the
recordation of plats for the subdivision of land into lots showing
on said plats. streets and alleys, within or within fifteen miles
from, the limits of any city having a population of not less than
sixty thousand nor more than one hundred and ten thousand in-
habitants, except in conformity with the plan provided by such
city, approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and
eighteen,”’ be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

1. Every owner or proprietor of any tract of land situated
within the corporate limits of any city containing more than one
hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the last United
States census, or within ten miles of the corporate limits of any
such city, who may hereafter subdivide the same into three or
more parts for the purpose of laying out any town or city, or any
addition thereto, or any part thereof or suburban lots, may cause
a plat of such subdivision with reference to known or permanent
monuments to be made, which shall accurately describe all the
sub-divisions of such tracts or parcels of land, and giving the di-
mensions and length and breadth thereof and the breadth and
courses of all the streets and alleys established therein. Descrip-
tions of lots or parcels of lands in such subdivisions, according
to the number and designation thereof on said plat, contained
in conveyances or for the purpose of taxation and copies of such
plats or extracts therefrom, properly attested by the clerk in
whose office said plats are recorded, shall have the same force
and effect as evidence that copies of deeds may have, and shall
be deemed good and valid for all intents and purposes.

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