Chap. 96.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
provide for a general index to deeds and fiduciary accounts in counties
and corporations that have not been supplied, approved March 29,
1877.

Approved November 24, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
in all counties or corporations in this state that have failed to
provide a general ‘index to the deed, will-book, and records of

duciary accounts on file in the clerk’s office of such county
or corporation courts, (or where such general index has been
provided, and has become so defaced as to render another
general index necessary and proper, or where the index does
not show the christian names or the initials of the grantor,
the grantee or the testator,) the judges of the respective
county and corporation courts may, in their discretion, ap-
point a suitable person, whose duty it shall be to makea
general index to the deed-books of such county or corpora-
tion in the full name of the grantor and the grantee, and a
general index to the will-books and record of fiduciary ac-
counts; and the judges of the said courts shall certify a
proper allowance to such person so appointed, as compensa-
tion for services performed under such order, to the board of
supervisors of such county to be levied for, or to the com-
mon council of any corporation. And hereafter it shall be
the duty of the clerk of said court to index all recorded
deeds, wills and fiduciary accounts as well in the general
index as in the deed-books, will-books and fiduciary accounts.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.