Chap. 304.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2486 of code of 1887, as
amended by an act to amend and re-enact sections 2485 and 2486 of the code
of Virginia, in relation tothe 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,

Approved February 12, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-four hundred and eighty-six of the code of eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact sections twenty-four hundred and eighty-five and
twenty-four hundred and eighty-six of the code of Virginia, in rela-
tion to the lien of employees, and so forth, of transportation, mining
and manufacturing companies, or franchises and property of said
companies, and how the same may be perfected and enforced, ap-
proved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2486. No person shall be entitled to the lien given by the pre-
ceding section unless he shall, within ninety days after the last item of
his bill becomes due and payable for which such supplies are furnished
or gervice 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, a 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 in the name of the company against
which the claim is. Any such lien may be enforced in a court of
equity.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.