Chap. 495.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to impose additional duties upon the
examiners of records of the several judicial circuits, etc.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section.
three of an act approved March seventh, nineteen hundred, entitled an
act to amend and reenact an act approved February eleventh, eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an act to impose additional duties
upon the examiner of records of the several judicial circuits with refer-
ence to ships, tugboats, barges, boats, or other water craft, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3. If any person, firm, or corporation consider himself aggrieved by
such assessment or valuation, the same may be corrected under the pro-
visions of sections five hundred and sixty-seven and five hundred and
sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia, and the examiner of records shall be
duly summoned as a witness in the case, and no order shall be valid un-
less it is stated in such order that said examiner was first duly sum-
moned as a witness to be examined touching said application: provided,
however, said erroneous assessment has been caused by negligence of
said examiner, he shall pay the costs of the application to be exonerated
from such erroneous assessment.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.