Chap. 209.—An ACT to amend section 14, chapter 40, of Code of 157-;
in relation to sale of land for debts due the commonwealth.

Approved March 21, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fourteen of chapter forty of the Code of Vi irginia,
edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

§ 14. On or before the maturity of such bond, the purcha-
ser shall pay the purchase moncy due thereby to the sheriff,
or the officer who made the sale. The sheriff or other officer
who made the sale, shall withdraw the bond of the purchaser
from the clerk’s office, on leaving his receipt therefor, and
collect the same. So soon as the purchaser shall pay the pur-
chase money, a deed shall be executed at his costs, reciting
the execution, the sale, and the price, and conveying ‘the land
to him. The grantor in such deed may either be the sheriff
cr other principal officer himself, or the deputy who acted in
making the sale, who sball, as commissioner, convey the land
nthe name of the commonwealth. The deed of either shalb
pass to the purchaser all the interest which the party against
whom the execution issued had in the land at the date of the
judyment or decree. Out of the money so collected, the
sheriff or officer who made the sale, shall pay all costs attend-
lug said execution and sale, the costs of a survey, if there
was one, all delinquent and unpaid-taxes and levies on said
land. the debt due the commonwvealth, and the residue, if any,
shall be paid to the judgment debtor.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.