Chap. 658.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 655 of the Code of Virginia,
in regard to when deed made to purchaser; clerk to make it; what to contain;
fee of clerk.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section six
hundred and fifty-five of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

$655. When decd made to purchaser; clerk to make it; what to con-
tain; fee of clerk.—After the expiration of the said two years the pur-
chaser of any real estate so sold and not redeemed, his heirs or assigns,
shall obtain from the clerk of the court of the county or corporation
(whose officer has sold such real estate) a deed conveying the same, in
Which shall be set forth all the circumstances appearing in the clerk's
office in relation to the sale; but in no case shall a deed be made to any
such purehascr of any such real estate until after such purchaser has
given to the person in whose name the real estate so sold stood at the
time of said sale, and the person or persons to whom said real estate so
sold has been conveyed of record subsequently to the time of said sale;
or if any of said persons be dead, then to his or their personal representa-
tives, heirs, and devisees, and to the trustees, mortgagees, and beneficia-
ries, as shown by the records in any deed of trust or mortgage on said
real estate, or their personal representatives, four months’ notice of his
said purchase: provided, that no notice necd be given to any trustee,
mortgagee, or beneficiary in any deed of trust or mortgage which has been
re corded, or the lien thereof renewed, more than twenty years prior to the
date of such sale; and the person entitled to redeem said real estate shall
have the right to redeem the same at any time before the expiration of
said four months, although such time extend beyond the two years first
mentioned herein. If the sale be of part of a tract of land, the deed shall
refer particularly to the plat and certificate of survey returned according
to seetion six hundred and fifty-three, and to the order of the court
thereupon; and if the sale be of an entire tract of land, it shall refer to
the report made according to the preceding section and the order there-
upon. If the sale be of a “city or town lot, or of an undivided interest in
such lot, and a report be made describing the same, and such report be
ordered by the court to be recorded, the deed shall refer to such report.
But when, in the case of the sale of a city or town lot, or of an undivided
interest in such lot, there is no such report, the clerk shall, nevertheless,
execute a deed therefor to the purchaser, if he desire the same. For every
deed executed under this seetion the elerk shall be entitled to one dollar,
which the purchaser shall pay him on the delivery of the deed. This
section shall apply as well to real estate heretofore sold as to such real
estate as may be hereafter sold for taxes or levies; and in any case in
which the chancery court of the city of Richmond has ordered the plat
and certificate of survey theretofore made of such real estate in the said
city to be recorded in conformity to section six hundred and fifty-three,
the clerk of the said chancery court shall execute the deed to the pur-
chaser, his heirs or assigns.

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