CHaP. 731.—An ACT to ratify and confirm an order entered in the circuit
court of the city of Richmond March 6, 1894, permitting James Grant and
Mary Grant, his wife, to adopt as their own child Kate Woods, a female
minor child under the age of fourteen, changing her name to Annie Grant,
and to change the name of said female minor child to Annie Grant, and
to declare the said Annie Grant to all legal intents and purposes the
child of the said James Grant and Mary Grant.

Approved March 8, 1900.

Whereas the circuit court of the city of Richmond did on the sixth
day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, enter in its order as
follows:

“ Virginia:

In the circuit court of the city of Richmond, March sixth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four:

This day James Grant and Mary Grant, his wife, by leave of the court,
filed their petition, asking that they may be allowed to adopt Kate Woods,
a female minor child under the age of fourteen, and that her name be
changed to Annie Grant, and with the said petition a written consent
of the said Owen Woods, the only living parent of said Kate Woods,
acknowledged before a notary public. And the court being satisfied
from the testimony of R. E. Brown of the ability of said petitioners to
bring up and educate the said child properly, and the fitness and pro-
priety of such adoption, doth grant the prayer of the said petitioners.
And it is ordered that from this day such child, to all legal intents and
purposes, is the child of the petitioners, and that her name is hereby
changed from hate Woods to that of Annie Grant ”; and

Whereas it is desired that said order shall be ratified and confirmed
in every respect by the general assembly of Virginia: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
said order or decree of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, entered
March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby ratified and
confirmed.

2. The said female child shall be known by the name of Annie Grant,
and shall be to all legal intents and purposes the child of the said James
Grant and Mary Grant, his wife.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.