Chap. 408.—An ACT to require the chancery court of the city of Richmond to
keep in its clerk’s office a register of the securities under the control of the
court.

Approved February 19, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there shall
be kept in the clerk’s office of the chancery court of the city of Rich-
mond a hook tn he known ag the ‘‘reoister of securities. ?? in which
shall be kept complete and accurate lists or accounts of all securities, of
Whatever nature, belonging to litigants in causes pending in the said
court, and which are deposited in said clerk’s uffice, or are otherwise
under the control or subject to the order of the said court, except notes
given for the deferred payments of the purchase money for real estate
sold under orders of the said court and which are deposited in bank or
elsewhere to its credit.

And the said court shall appoint a suitable person whose duty it shall
be to transcribe into such book, when provided, complete and accurate
lists or accounts of all such securities as may then be held by said court
as aforesaid; and the said court shall make to such person a reasonable
allowance for his services and certify the same to the council of the said
city for payment, and the same shall be paid out of the treasury of the
said city.

2. When the said book shall have been so provided and transcribed it
shall be the duty of the clerk of the said court to enter therein all
securities, of whatever nature, which shall be thereafter deposited in
said oflice, or otherwise come under the control or subject to the order
of the court, except the notes aforesaid, and also when any of the
securities registered in said book shall be withdrawn from said office, or
otherwise disposed of, to enter that fact in said book, with an appro-
priate reference to the order of the court authorizing it, so that the said
book shall at all times show a complete and accurate account of all the
securities under the control or subject to the order of the court, and the
sald books shall be open for inspection to the public.

3. For his services under the second section of this act the clerk shall
be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, not for each, but for all of the entries
made by him in the said book in connection with all the securities be-
longing to any one suit; said fee shall be charged but once in any suit,
and shall be taxed in the costs of the suit to which said securities be-
long.

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