Chap. 475.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 664 of the code of Virginia,

in relation to redemption of delinquent lands, purchased by the common-
wealth.

Approved February 21, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and sixty-four of the code of Virginia, as amended and
re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section
six hundred and sixty-four of chapter twenty-eight of the code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to redemption of delinquent lands, approved February
the twenty-eizhth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 664. How and by whom real estate so purchased may be redeemes) :
if redeemed the fact to be certified to commissioner.—The previous
owner of any such real estate, his heirs or assigns, or anv person having
the right to charge the same with a debt, may, until further sale
thereof, redeem such real estate by paying to the clerk of the court of
the county or corporation in which such real estate is situated the

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amount for which the sale was made, together with such additional
sums as would have accrued from taxes and levies if the same had
not been purchased by the commonwealth, with interest on the amount
for which the sale was made at the rate of six per centum from the day
of sale, and on the additional sums from the fifteenth day of December
in the year in which the same would have accrued. The clerk shall
endorse the fact of such payment on the delinquent land-book opposite
the entry of the tract or lot. When real estate is redeemed as pro-
vided in this section the clerk shall certify the fact to the commissioner
of the revenue of the county or city wherein such real estate lies. For
making statement, calculating interest, and so forth, the said clerk
shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents, payable by the person redeeming
his land. The clerk shall annually, at the time he makes report to
the auditor of public accounts of taxes collected by him (as now pro-
vided by law), report upon blanks to be furnished by the auditor the
amounts received by him for redemption of delinquent lands, and
shall pay the same into the public treasury at the time fixed by law for
paying in other public money received by him. For his services in
receiving this money and paying it into the treasury he shall be entitled
to a commission of five per centum.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.