Chap. 224.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2485 and
2486 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of employees,
&c., of transportation, mining, and manufacturing companies,
on franchises and property of said companies, and how the
same may be perfected and enforced.

Approved February 15, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section twenty-four hundred and eighty-five and sec-
tion twenty-four hundred and eighty-six of the code of
Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§ 2485. Lien of employees, and so forth, on transpor-
tation companies, and so forth, on franchises and property
of company.—All conductors, brakesmen, engine-drivers,
firemen, captains, stewards, pilots, clerks, depot or office
agents, store-keepers, mechanics, or laborers, and all per-
30ns furnishing railroad iron, engines, cars, fuel, and all
other supplies necessary to the operation of any railway,
canal, or other transportation company, and all clerks, me-
chanics, and laborers who furnish their services or labor
to any mining or manufacturing company, whether such
railway, canal, or other transportation, or mining or man-
ufacturing company be chartered under or by the laws of
this state or be chartered elsewhere and be doing business
within the limits of this state, shall have a prior lien on
the franchises, gross earnings, and on all the real and per-
Bponal property of said company, which is used in operating
the same, to the extent of the moneys due them by said
company, for such wages or supplies; and no mortgage,
deed of trust, sale, hypothecation, or conveyance, executed
since the twenty-first day of March, eighteen hundred
and seventy-seven, shall defeat or take precedence over
said lien; and all persons furnishing supplies to a min-
ing or manufacturing company, necessary to the ope-
ration of the same, shall have a prior lien upon the
personal property of such company other than that forming
part of its plant to the extent of the money due them
for such supplies, and also a lien upon all the estate,
real and personal, of such company, which said last lien,
however, upon all such real and personal estate, shall be
subject and inferior to any lien by deed of trust, mortgage,
hypothecation, sale, or conveyance, made or executed and
duly admitted to record, prior to the date at which said
supplies are furnished: provided, however, that the lien
secured by this provision to parties furnishing supplies,
shall be subsequent to that due to clerks, mechanics and
laborers for services furnished as aforesaid: and provided,
that if any person entitled to a lien as well under section
twenty-four hundred and seventy-five as under this sec-
tion, shall perfect his lien given by either section, he shall
not be entitled to the benefit of the other: and provided,
also, that no right to or remedy upon a lien which has
already accrued to any person shall be extended, abridged,
or otherwise affected hereby.

8 2486. How perfected; how enforced.—No person shall
be entitled to the lien given by the preceding section
unless he shall, within ninety days after such supplies are
furnished or service rendered, file in the clerk’s office of
the court of the county or corporation in which is located
the chief office in this state of the company against which
the claim is, or in the clerk’s office of the chancery court
of the city of Richmond, when such office is in said city,
& memorandum of the amount and consideration of his
claim, verified by affidavit, which memorandum the said
clerk shall forthwith record in the deed book and index
the same in the name of the said claimant, and also inj
the name of the company against which the claim ia.
Any such lien may be enforced in a court of equity.

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