Chap. 276.—An AUT Supplementary to an act passed June 27, 1870, en-
titled an Act to Prescribe in what Manner and on what Conditions a
Householder or Head of a Family shall Set Apart and Hold a Home-
stead and Personal Property for Benefit of himself and Family Exempt
trom Sale for Debt.

Approved July 11, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
in case the property or estate of a householder or head of a
family desired to be set apart or protected under the pro-
visions of an act approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen
hundred and seventy, and known as the homestead act, shall
be situate in a city or town having a corporation court, then
the deed declaring the intention of the party to claim such
exemption, or the writing designating the personal property
to be selected, or designating the property in which the pro-
ceeds of the sale of such personalty is re-invested, shall be
recorded in the deed book of the corporation court wherein
other deeds are recorded.

2. All the powers and duties by the said act conferred on
the judges of the county courts as to property lying in the
several counties of the commonwealth, shall, as to persons and

roperty within the jurisdiction of corporation courts, be con-
erred on the said corporation courts, and in the city of Rich-
mond on the circuit court thereof. ,
3. This act shall be in force from ite passage.