Chap. 299.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 39,
Code of 1873, as amended by an act BbErovedt February 15, 1879,
and to amend and re-enact section 2 of ¢ pter 39, Code of 1873, in
reference to the price paid for land warrants, and the fees paid in
the land office.

Approved February 29, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of chapter thirty-nine of the Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act appreved
February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and
section two of said chapter, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows: -

§1. A person desiring to purchase any waste and unap-

i propriated land authorized by law to be sold, shall pay into
the treasury seventy-five cents for each acre of the same,
and so in proportion for a greater or smaller quantity. The
treasurer shall give to the purchaser a receipt for the money
peid, specifying the purpose for which the payment is made.
The receipt being delivered to the auditor of public accounts,
he shall give to such persons a certificate thereof, stating the
quantity of land he is entitled to, and thereupon the register
of the land office shall issue a grant therefor. But this act
shall not be construed as prohibiting the issue of duplicate
warrants or grants where the originals have been lost or
destroyed, but where it shall be made satisfactorily to appear
to the proper officer that the party applying for such duplicate
fully complied with the requirements of the law existing at
the time the said originals were issued, and that the same
have been lost or destroyed, he shall issue proper duplicates
thereof.

§2. There shall be paid to the register of the ‘land office
the following sums: For issuing a warrant of survey and
keeping a register thereof, where it does not exceed one hun-
dred acres, seventy-five cents, where it does, for every fifty
acres additional twenty-five cents; for issuing a warrant in
exchange for another warrant, or where the lands claimed
under a former warrant shall be recovered under a caveat,
and keeping a register thereof, one dollar; for receiving a
plat and certificate, and giving a receipt for the same, twenty-
five cents; for recording the same, if there be no assign-
ment thereon, and there be not more than ten courses, fifty
cents for each course above ten, three cents; for every trans-
fer of a surveyor’s certificate one dollar and sixty cents; for
issuing and recording a grant, if the quantity does not exceed
one hundred acres, one dollar and seventy-five cents; for
every fifty acres exceeding that quantity, if there are not
more than ten courses, ten cents; for each course above ten,
six cents; for entering a caveat, or for a copy thereof,
seventy-five cents; for every title paper recited in any in-
clusive survey, ten cents; for a copy of a grant, where the
same does not exceed four hundred words, seventy-five cents;

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for every thirty words additional, three cents; for a copy of
a plat and certificate of survey, where same does not exceed
ten courses, seventy-five cents; for each additional course, six
cents; for a copy or certificate for which no fee is specified,
if the same does not exceed two hundred words, twenty-five
cents; for every thirty words additional, three cents; for
entering in the margin of the record of a grant the substance
of a decree repealing such grant, twenty-five cents: provided,
that for like services to be rendered to or for non-resident of
this state, double the amount of the aforesaid fees shall be
paid; for a search for anything made for a resident of this
state, fifty cents; for a search for anything made for a non-
resident of this state, or in relation to any land without
limits of this; for each hour and fraction of an hour employed
by the register or any clerk in making such search, fifty cents.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage. :