Chap. 136.—An ACT for the relief of J. L. Yingling from the operation of an
erroneous entry on the assessors’ books of Roanoke county, growing out of a
clerical error.

Approved March 10, 1902.

Whereas, it is claimed by J. L. Yingling, of Salem, Roanoke county,
Virginia, that the assessors of lands for the county of Roanoke, acting
under the provisions of section four hundred and thirty-seven of the
Code of Virginia of eightecn hundred and eighty-seven, and the subse-
quent acts of assembly amendatory thereof, in making their assessments
of land in said county in the vear nineteen hundred, made an error in
transcribing their assessment of the lands of the said J. L. Yingling in
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said county, whereby the said lands now stand assessed at double the
amount intended by said assessors: now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the time
from the passage of this act until the first day of December, nineteen
hundred and two, be allowed to the said J. L. Yingling for the purpose
of making application to the county court of the county of Roanoke for
the correction of any erroneous assessment of the lands of the said J. L.
Yingling in said county, made in the year nineteen hundred under the
provisions of section four hundred and thirty-seven of the Code of
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the subsequent acts of assembly
amendatory thereof, after giving such notice as is provided for in sec-
tion four hundred and forty-four of said Code; and the said court is
hereby authorized and empowered, upon such application being made
within the time stated, to correct such erroneous assessment of the said
lands as may scem to it proper: provided, that nothing in this act shall
be construed to allow any refunding of taxes paid on the said land.

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