CHAPTER 34

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 58-797 and 58-798 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to annual lists of deeds, and of judgments for partt-
tion or recovery of lands and of lands devised to be made out by
clerks of courts. CH. 68]

Approved February 18, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 58-797 and 58-798 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 58-797. The clerk of every court in which deeds are admitted to
record, except such clerks in cities having a population of more than*
two hundred and thirty thousand, shall annually, before the fifteenth of
January, make out a list of all deeds for the partition and conveyance of
land, other than deeds of trust and mortgages, made to secure the pay-
ment of debts, which have been admitted to record in the clerk’s office of
such court within the year ending on the thirty-first day of December
next preceding. The list shall state the date of the deed, when admitted to
record, the name of the grantor and grantee, whether the grantee is white
or colored, if known, the quantity of land conveyed, the specified value
thereof and a description of the same. This list shall, on or before the
fifteenth day of January, be delivered by the clerk to the commissioner
for his county or city and the clerk shall also forward a copy of the list
to the Department of Taxation. The clerk shall also make out on a separate
sheet a list of all deeds of trust and mortgages on land, as well as deeds
of trust on personal property, made to secure the payment of debts, which
have been admitted to record in the clerk’s office of such court within the
year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding. Such list
shall state the date of the deed of trust or mortgage, when admitted to
record, the name of the grantor, the names of the creditors, when the
names of such creditors are disclosed and set forth in the deed of trust
or mortgage, and the amount of the debt to each creditor secured by the
deed of trust or to the mortgagee in the mortgage and the total amount
of debt secured thereby and the property conveyed in such deed of trust
or mortgage. Copies of this last mentioned list shall be furnished by the
clerk on or before the fifteenth day of January to the Commissioner of
the revenue for his county or city and to the Department of Taxation.

The list first hereinabove mentioned shall include all lands acquired
in fee simple by the Commonwealth, through condemnation proceedings,
and shall give the names of the persons from whom acquired, the dates of
confirmation of the commissioners’ reports in such proceedings, the quan-
tity of land acquired in each case, the value thereof as specified in the
reports and a description of each such tract.

The commissioner shall, upon receipt of any such list as hereinbefore
in this section provided for, promptly and carefully check the same
against the records in the office of the clerk who furnished the same and,
if he finds any errors in the list, he shall make proper correction thereof.

§ 58-798. The clerk of every court in which judgments are required
to be docketed, except such clerks in cities having a population of more
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than * two hundred and thirty thousand, shall make out a list of all judg-
ments and decrees for the partition or recovery of lands which have been
rendered and of all lands devised by will, which have been recorded
in such court within the year ending on the thirty-first of December next
preceding. The list shall state the date of the decree, the land which is
the subject of the partition and between whom and in what proportion
it is divided or, as the case may be, the date of the will containing the
devise, when admitted to record, the names of the devisor and devisee
and the description of the land devised. The clerk shall deliver the list
to the commissioner for his county or city on or before the fifteenth day of
January in each year.

Upon receipt of any such list as hereinbefore provided for, the com-
missioner shall promptly and carefully check the same against the re-
cords in the office of the clerk who furnished the same and, if he finds
any errors in the list, he shall make proper correction thereof.