CHAP. 488.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2494 of the
code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to lien on crops for advances
to farmers; nature of agreement therefor; where and in what
manner docketed and the effect thereof and the clerk’s fee there-

or.

Approved February 29, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section two thousand four hundred and ninety-four
of the code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2494. Lien on crops for advances to farmers; nature
of agreement thereof; where recorded.—If any person other
than a landlord make advances, either in money or sup-
plies, to any one who is engaged in or is about to engage
in the cultivation of the soil, the person so making such ad-
vances shall be entitled to a lien on the crops which may be
made or seeded during the year upon the land, in or about
the cultivation of which the advances so made have been
or were intended to be expended, to the extent of such ad-
vances: provided, however, that an agreement in writing
shall be entered into before any such advances are made,
in which shall be specified the amount to be advanced, or
in which a limit shall be fixed, beyond which the advances
made, from time to time, during the year, shal] not go, and
the said agreement be delivered to the clerk of the county
court in which the land lies, and by him docketed ina
book to be kept by him for that special purpose; such agree-
ment shall be docketed by said clerk in the same manner
that judgments are now required by law to be dock-
eted, and shall have the same force and effect as if they
were recorded in the deed-book, and for such service said
clerk shall receive a fee of twenty-five cents.

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

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