Chap. 483.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 664 of the code of Virginia as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend section 664 of chap-
ter 28 of the eode of Virginia in relation to redemption of delinquent lands,
approved February 28, 180.

Approved February 24, 189.

1. Beit enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and sixty-four of the code of Virginia, as amended and re-
enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section six
hundred and sixty-four of chapter twenty-eight of the code of Virginia,
in relation to a redemption of delinquent lands, approved February the
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and nincty, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 664. How and by whom real estate so purchased may be redeemed;
if redeemed the fact to be certified to commissioner. —The previous owner
of any such real estate, hig heirs or assigns, or any person having the

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right to charge the same with a debt, may until further sale thereof re-
deem such real estate by paying to the clerk of the court of the county
or corporation in which such real estate is situated, the amount for
which the sale was made, together with such additional sums as would
have accrued from taxes and levies, if the same had not been purchased
by the commonwealth, with interest on the amount for which the sale
was made, at the rate of six per centum, from the day of sale, and on the
additional sums from the fifteenth day of December in the year in which
the same would have accrued; the clerk shall endorse the fact of such
payment on the delinquent Jand book, opposite the entry of the tract or
lots. When real estate is redeemed as provided in this section, the clerk
shall certify the fact to the commissioner of the revenue of the county
or city whercin such real estate lies.

For making statement, calculating interest, and so forth, the said clerk
shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, pavable by the person redeeming
his land.

The clerk shall annually at the time he makes report to the auditor of
public accounts of taxes collected by him (as now provided by law)
report upon blanks to be furnished by the auditor the amounts received
by him for redemption of delinquent lands, and shall pay the same into
the public treasury at the time fixed by law for paying in other public
money received by him.

For his services in receiving this money and paying it into the treasury
he shall be entitled to a commission of five per centum.

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