Chap. 57.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2403 of the Code of Meares
Approved February 26, 1924.

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

Section 2403. Deeds, wills, etc., not to be admitted to record
until tax is paid; exceptions. —No deed or contract shall be admitted
to record without the payment of the tax imposed thereon by law except
a, deed conveying land as a site for a school house or church, and except
a deed conveying property to the State or to any county, city, town,
district or other political sub-division of this State; no will shall be ad-
mitted to probate; and there shall be no grant of administration on the
estate of any decedent, until the tax on such deed or contract, will, or
grant is paid to the clerk.

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