Chap. 359.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow
public officials in Virginia, both State and local, to deposit records in the
Virginia State Library, approved March 15, 1918, and to authorize the State
Librarian to remove such records to the State Library in certain cases.

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Approved March 24, 1926.

1. s#e it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to allow public officials in Virginia, both State and
local, to deposit records in the Virginia State library, approved March
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 1. The proper official or custodian of any public record of
the State of Virginia, or of any county, city, town, village within the
said State, is hereby authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to
transfer to the Virginia State library, for preservation, any official
books, records, documents, original papers, or map, prior to seventeen
hundred and ninety in his office; and said State library shall provide
for their permanent preservation; and when so surrendered, copies
therefrom shall be made and certified by the State librarian, upon
application and the payment of reasonable fees, which certification
shall have the same force and effect, as if made by the officer or cus-
todian originally in charge of them.

Section 2. And where the records of any court, prior to 1790,
except the will books and the deed books are not properly cared for,
on notice from the State librarian to the official having custody of
such records and failure of said official to have such records put,
within one year, in repair satisfactory to the judge of said court, the

said judge is directed to have such records removed to the State
library.