Chap. 94.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 8 of the Act eutitled
an Act to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Prince Ed-
ward to Vote on the Question of Removing the County Courthouse to the
Town of Farmville.

Approved March 4, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three of the act entitled an act to authorize the quali-
fied voters of the county of Prince Edward to vote on the
question of removing the county courthouse to the town of
Farmville, approved the second of November, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Ҥ 3. If from such returns and abstracts of the votes so cast
upon the question of the removal of the courthouse of Prince
Edward county, it shall appear that a majority of the votes
were “for the town of Farmville,” the said town of Farmville
shall be, to all intents and purposes, the place of holding the
courts in the said county of Prince Edward, and for conduct-
ing the business incident thereto: provided, that before the
said town of Farmville shall be the place of holding the said
courts of Prince Edward, the council of the town of Farm-
ville shall cause to be erected a courthouse, clerk’s office, and
jail, in the corporate limits of said town, on a lot of land not
less than one-half or more than two acres—the fee simple title
thereto having been made to the county of Prince Edward by
a conveyance, with general warranty approved by the county
court, or the supervisors of said county, which approval shall
be entered of record: provided further, that the said buildings
shall be approved and accepted by the county court, or super-
visors of Prince Edward, the said approval and acceptance to
be entered of record: and provided further, that said buildings
shall be erected, accepted, and approved, and said conveyance
approved, before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two. After said approval and acceptance shall have
been made, as herein provided for, it shall be the duty of the
said county court of Prince Edward to cause the books and
papers, in the clerk’s office in said county, to be removed to
the clerk’s office in Farmville, and the cost of making said re-
moval shall be ordered to be paid by the supervisors of said
county; and thereafter, the courts of said county shall be held
at the courthouse in Farmville. If from any cause whatever
the said buildings shall cease to be used for the purposes of
holding the courts for the county of Prince Edward, the fee
simple title to the real estate, and the buildings thereon, shall
revert to and become the property of the town of Farmville,
as fully, and to all intents and purposes, as if said real estate
had been originally conveyed to said town of Farmville.”

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