Chap. 63.—An ACT to provide for an improved form of General Index
to Deed-Books and other records in the chancery court of the city
of Richmond.

Approved February 3, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That.
the council of the city of Richmond may, with the approval
of the judge of the chancery court of the said city, adopt an
improved form of general index for the deed books, the judg-
ment docket books, the will books, and the fiduciary account
books, or any of them on file in the clerk’s office of the said
court, and have the same made by some suitable person.
And whenever a general index shall be provided for the said
books or any of them, it shall thereafter be the duty of the
clerk of the said court to index all deeds, wills, fiduciary
accounts, or judgments that may be recorded or docketed, as
well in the general index that may be provided for them
respectively, as in the deed books, the will books, the fiduciary
account books, or the judgment docket books themselves.
And whenever thereafter a deed of trust, mortgage, ground
rent, or other lien may be released on the records, it shall be
the duty of the clerk in addition to what may now be required
of him in regard to the same, also to note the fact of such
release in the general index opposite the name or names in
which the deed of trust, mortgage, ground rent, or other lien
may be therein indexed. And whenever thereafter a docketed
judgment may becmpriee, satisfied either by the cla or
other person authorized by law to mark the same satisfied, it
shall be the duty of the clerk or of such person also to note
such satisfaction in the general index opposite the names in
which the judgment itself may be therein indexed. And the
clerk of the said court shall be entitled to a fee of ten cents
in case of each release or satisfaction of a judgment for his
a in noting them in the general index as above pro-
vided.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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