Chap. 395.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2485 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections 2485 and
2486 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the lien of employees, etc., of trans-
portation, mining, and manufacturing companies on franchises and property of
said companies, and how the same may be perfected and enforced,” approved
February 15, 1892.

Approved December 10, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
swenty-four hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended
by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact sections twenty-four
hundred and eighty-five and twenty-four hundred and eighty-six of the
Code.of Virginia, in relation to the lien of employecs, and so forth, of
transportation, mining, and manufacturing companies on franchises and
property of said companies, and how the same may be perfected and en-
forced,” approved February fifteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2485. Lien of employees, and so forth, of transportation companies,
and so forth, on franchises and property of company.—All conductors,
brakemen, engine drivers, firemen, captains, stewards, pilots, clerks, de-
pot or office agents, storekeepers, mechanics, traveling representatives.
or laborers, and all persons furnishing railroad iron, engines, cars, fuel.
and all other supplies necessary to the operation of any railway, canal.
or other transportation company, and all clerks, mechanics, traveling
representatives, and laborers who furnish their services or labor to any
mining or manufacturing company, whether such railway, canal, or other
transportation or mining or manufacturing company be chartered under
or by the Jaws of this State, or be chartered elsewhere, and be doing busi-
ness within the limits of this State, shall have a prior lien on the fran-
chises, gross earnings, and on all the real and personal property of said
company which is used in operating the same to the extent of the moneys
due them by said company for such wages or supplies; and no mortgage.
deed of trust, sale, hypothecation, or conveyance executed since the
twenty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, shall de-
feat or take precedence over said lien: provided, however, that the lien
secured by this provision to parties furnishing supplies shall be subse-
quent to that due to clerks, mechanics, and laborers, for services fur-
nished as aforesaid: and provided, that if any person entitled to a lien
as well under section twenty-four-hundred and seventy-five, as under
this section shall perfect his lien given by cither section, he shall not be
entitled to the benefit of the other: and provided, also, that no right to
or remedy upon a lien which has already accrued to any person shall be
extended, abridged, or otherwise affected hereby.

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