Chap. 339.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 637 of the code of Virginia,
in relation to clerks delivering to treasurers copy of list of delinquent real
estate; treasurers to post the same with notice of sale of lands for taxes,
levies, &c., attached.

Approved February 23, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and thirty-seven of the code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 637. Clerks to deliver to treasurers copy of list of delinquent
real estate; treasurers to post the same, with notice of sale of lands
for taxes, levies, and so forth, attached.—The clerk of each county
and corporation or hustings court, and the clerk of the council of
each town, shall, at the time he certifies to the auditor of public ac-
counts a list of real estate delinquent for the non-payment of taxes
and levies thereon, make a copy of the same and deliver it to the
treasurer of his county or city. Within thirty days after receiving
such copy from the clerk, the treasurer, if he be an officer of a city,
shall post a printed copy thereof in at least five public. places in
each ward of his city; if the treasurer be the officer of a county, he
shall post a copy at the front door of the court-house of his county
on the first day of a county court, and also a printed copy in at least
five public places in each magisterial district in said county, and
the said treasurers may distribute in other ways in their respective
cities and towns such additional printed copies as they may deem
proper to secure general publicity of the time and place of sale of
the lands therein mentioned as delinquent. But in lieu of posting
these printed copies in the districts of a county or the wards of a
city, the auditor of public accounts may direct a copy of said list to
be inserted once in a newspaper published in said county or city.
The expense of this printing shall be apportioned among the delin-
quents according to the amount of taxes and levies due by them re-
spectively. To each copy thus posted and published the treasurer
shall attach a notice that the real estate therein mentioned, or 80
much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the taxes, levies, in-
terest, costs and charges due thereon, will be sold at public auction
on the first day of the following November or December court, be-
tween the hours of ten in the morning and four in the afternoon, in
front of the court-house, unless the amount for which said lands are
delinquent, together with the interest, costs and charges shall have
been previously paid to such treasurer.
2. Thig act shall be in force from its passage.