Chap. 159.—An ACT toamend section 2 of chapter 548, Acts of 1883-4,
entitled an act to provide for the sale of land delinquent for taxes and
county levies.

Approved November 29, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section two of an act to provide for the sale of lands delin-
quent for taxes and county levies, approved March nineteen,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended and re-enacted,
so as to read as follows:

§ 2. On or before the first day of December, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-five, the auditor of public accounts shall
cause to be delivered to the treasurer of each county or mu-
nicipal corporation in the commonwealth, a list of the real
estate therein, which, since the first day of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-five, shall have been returned delinquent
for the non-payment of state taxes and county levies for all
purposes thereon, and on which state and county taxes remain
unpaid, with a statement, showing in different columns, in
such form as may be prescribed by the said auditor, the
amount due for such taxes on each tract or lot so returned
delinquent for each year, and for interest on such taxes, whe-
ther or not the same has heretofore been sold and purchased
by the commonwealth; and the said auditor shall employ such
additional clerical force to prepare the said lists as he may
deem sufficient, at a salary not exceeding that now paid the
clerks in his office for similar services.

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