Chap. 456.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5, chapter
chapter 115, Code of 1875, as amended by an act approved March 31,
1875, and an act approved February 10, 1880, relating to mechanics’
liens.

Approved March 17, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections four and five of chapter one hundred and fifteen,
Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended,
the former by an act approved February tenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty, and the latter by an act approved
March thirty-first, cighteen bundred and seventy-tive, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$4. A general contractor, or a sub-contractor, or any person
contracting to furnish materials about a building or other
improvement, wishing to avail himself of the licn “given him
by the precceding section, shall, the general contractor
within ninety days after the completion of such building or
improvement, and the sub-contrator, or other persons con-
tracting to furnish materials, within thirty days atter the
completion of such building or improvement, file in the clerk's
office of the county or corporation in which the property
upon which the lien is sought to be secured, is situated, and
in the clerk’s office of the chancery court of the city of Rich-
mond, when the property is in said city, a true account of
the work done or materials furnished, sworn to by said
claimant or her agent, with a statement of facts signifying
his intention to claim the benefit of said lien, and setting
forth a brief description of the property upon which he
claims the lien, and shall give notice thereof in writing, to
the owner of the property or other persons contracting with
the general contractor. It shall be the duty of the clerk, in
whose office such account and statement shall be filed as
hereinbefore provided, to record the same in a book, to be
kept for that purpose, and from the time of such filing, all per-
sons shall be deemed to have notice thereof: provided how-
ever, that the owner or other person contracting with the
general contractor, shall have actual notice as provided by
this section.

§5. Any sub-contractor, or any person contracting to fur-
nish materials about a building or other improvement, for a
general contrator or other person than the owner, shall,
within thirty days after such building or other improvement
is completed, or the work thereon otherwise terminated, fur-
nish the owner thereof with an affidavit, showing a correct
account of the amount due to said party by the contractor,
and remaining unpaid to the sub-contractor or person con-
tracting to furnish materials, and said owner shall be liable
for the amount of such claim to said sub-contractor or per-
sons contracting to furnish materials from the time that he
shall have been furnished with such affidavit.

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