CHAP. 58.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 115
of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved March 31, 1875,
relating to mechanics’ liens.

Approved, February 1], 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section four
of chapter one hundred and fiftecn, Code of cightzen hundred
and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved March thirty-
one, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 4. A general contractor wishing to avail himself of the lien
given him by the preceding section, shall file within sixty days
after the completion of the work, in the clerk’s office of the
county or corporation court of the county or corporation in
which the property upon which a lien 1s sought to be secured is
situated, and in the clerk’s office of the chancery court of the
city of Richmond, where the property is in said city, a true ac-
count of the work done or materials turnished, sworn to by said
claimant or his agent, with a statement attached, signifying his
intention to claim the benefit of said lien, and setting forth a
brief description of the property upon which he claims thie lien.
It shall be the duty of the clerk in whose office such account
and statement shall be filed, as hereinbefore provided, to record
the same in a book kept for that purpose, and from the time of
such filing all persons shall be deemed to have notice ther. of.

2. This act suall be in force from its passage.