Chap. 400.—An ACT to amend the Tax Code of Virginia by adding a new sec-
tion numbered 69-a so as to validate certain judgments rendered upon plead-
ings which failed to contain certain allegations as to the assessment for taxation,
of the bonds, notes, and other evidences of debts sued on; and to protect the title
to lands sold under deeds of trust, where the holder of the notes secured by

- the deed of trust, had not listed the same for taxation, and to repeal Chapter
362 of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 22, 1928, which related
to the same subject as the foregoing. [H 370]

Approved March 31, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That the Tax Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new
section numbered sixty-nine-a, as follows:

Section 69-a. That all judgments on bonds, notes and other evidences
of debt, rendered at any time before this act becomes effective, upon
pleadings which failed to contain the allegations or the proof required by
subsection one of section eleven of the tax bill, as amended by chapter
five hundred and seventy-six of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred
and twenty-six, and as codified by section sixty-nine of the Tax Code,
with reference to the assessment of such notes, bonds and evidences of
debt for taxation, are, if otherwise valid, hereby validated, and declared
to have the same force and effect as if such pleadings had contained the
allegations so required ; or such proof was adduced; and the title to real
estate sold at any time under a deed of trust, shall not be drawn in ques-
tion upon the ground that the holder of the notes secured by such deed
of trust, has not listed the same for taxation.

2. Chapter three hundred and sixty-two of the Acts of Assembly of
nineteen hundred twenty-eight, approved March twenty-second, nineteen
hundred twenty-eight which related to the same subject as the foregoing

is repealed.
J