Chap. 1144.—An ACT to authorize clerks to enter record on delinquent land
books when lands are redeemed from purchaser.

Approved March 7, 1900.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That when lands
and lots have been sold for taxes and purchased by an individual and
redeemed as provided in section six hundred and fifty of the code of
Virginia and the several amendments thereto, that the clerk of the
county or corporation court of the county or corporation where such
real estate so sold lies, shall, when a receipt of the purchaser at the
tax sale showing that all taxes, costs, and so forth have been paid to him,
duly signed by him and acknowledged, as a deed is required to be
acknowledged, shall be delivered to him, endorse the fact of such pay-
ment to the purchaser on the delinquent land book opposite the entry
of said tract or lot for the year or years for which it was sold for de-
linquent taxes to the purchaser. The clerk shall receive a fee of twenty-
five cents, to be paid bv the person for whose benefit the endorsement
is made, for endorsing the fact of payment on the delinquent land book.

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