CHAPTER 132

An Act to amend and reenact § 55-186 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
grants of escheated lands; and to amend the Code of Virginia by
adding two sections numbered 55-186.1 and 55-186.2, relating to the
same subject.
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Approved February 27, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 55-186 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted, and
that the Code of Virginia be amended by adding two sections numbered
§§ 55-186.1 and 55-186.2, as follows:

§ 55-186. When grant to issue to purchaser.—When the escheator
sells for cash he shall certify the purchase and the price to the State
Librarian, who, on receiving a certificate from the State Treasurer that
such price, deducting the expenses, has been paid into the State Treasury
and that the expenses of the inquest and sale have been paid to the
escheator, shall have a grant issued and executed for the lands so sold ***.

§ 55-186.1. In what form grants to issue.——Such grant shall be to the
following effect:

“A B, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all to whom these
presents shall come, greeting: Know ye, that in consideration of the sum of

paid by

into the treasury of this Commonwealth, etc., there is granted by the
Commonwealth unto the said a certain
tract or parcel of land, containing acres, lying in the county (or
city) of , etc., (describing the bounds of the land and
date of the survey) with its appurtenances, to the said

and his heirs forever. In witness whereof, the said A B,
Governor of the Commonwealth, has set his hand and caused the lesser seal

of the Commonwealth to be affixed hereunto, at , on the
day of , in the year , and of the
Commonwealth 4
. B.”

§ 55-186.2. Governor to sign and seal grant; State Librarian to
record it, etc.—The State Librarian shall deliver such grant to the Gover-
nor, by whom it shall be signed and sealed with the lesser seal of the
Commonwealth, and returned to the State Librarian, who shall record the
grant, and the plat and certificate of survey on which it is founded, in well
bound books provided for the purpose, at the public charge. The State
Librarian shall certify the grant to have been registered, and then deliver
it to the party to whom itt is made, or his order.