Chap. 562.—An ACT to provide for the release of contracts for sale of personal
property docketed under section 2462 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by
act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved 28th day of February, 1890.

Approved January 2, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That each ven-
dor in a contract for the sale of personal property, docketed under sec-
tion twenty-four hundred and sixty-two, Code of Virginia, as amended,
upon payment to him of the amount of purchase price in full, ag set
forth in said contract, shall mark the saine satisfied upon the margin of
the page of the book where the same is recorded, which note of satisfac-
tion, when signed by such vendor or his dulv authorized agent or attor-
ney, and attested by the clerk in whose office such contract is docketed,
shall operate as a release of all claims of such vendor as to all of the
goods described in the contract so docketed, and the clerk for so attesting
such release shall have a fee of twenty-five cents, to be paid by the ven-
dor, and by him to be charged in said contract, and collected in the same
manner as the other money due him under said contract is collected.
Any vendor failing or neglecting to so release a contract within thirt
days after the whole amount thereof has been paid to him shall forfe:
five dollars to the vendee.

2. Whenever any such vendee shall be indebted for rent of the hous
wherein the personal property described in said contract is stored ©
kept, the said vendor, at the request of the landlord, or his duly au
thorized agent or attorney, shall state, under oath, the balance due 01
said contract of sale, and upon the payment of such balance, either by
the vendee, or by any one else for him, shall release and mark the sai
contract satisfied, as prescribed in section one of this act.

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