Chap. 125.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 637 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended by an act entitled ‘an act to amend and re-enact section 637 of the
Code of Virginia, in relation to clerks delivering to treasurers copy of list of
delinquent real estate; treasurers to post the same with notice of sale of lands
for taxes, levies, etc., attached,’”’ approved February 23, 1894.

Approved March 12, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and thirty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an
act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section six hundred and thirty-
seven of the Code of Virginia, in relation to clerks delivering to treas-
urers copy of list of delinquent real estate, treasurer to report the same
with notice of sale of lands for taxes, levies, and so forth, attached,” ap-
proved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 637. Clerks to deliver to treasurers copy of list’ of delinquent real
estate; treasurers to post the same, with notice of sale of lands for taxes,
levies, and so forth, attached.—The clerk of each circuit and corporation
or hustings court, and the clerk of the council of each town, shall, at the
time he certifies to the auditor of public accounts a list of real estate de-
linquent for the non-payment of taxes and levies thereon, make a copy
of the same and deliver it to the treasurer of his county or city. Within
thirty days after receiving such copy from the clerk, the treasurer, if he
be an officer of a city, shall post a printed copy thereof in at least five
public places in each ward of his city; if the treasurer be the officer of a
county, he shall post a copy at the front door of the courthouse of his
county on the first day of a circuit court, and also a printed copy in at
least five public places in each magisterial district in said county, and
the said treasurers may distribute in other ways in their respective cities
and towns such additional printed copies as they may deem proper to
secure general publicity of the time and place of sale of the lands therein
mentioned as delinquent. But in leu of posting these printed copies in
the districts of a county or the wards of a city, the auditor of public ac-
counts may direct a copy of said list to be inserted once in a newspaper
published. in said county or city. The expense of this printing shall be
apportioned among the delinquents according to the amount of taxes and
levies due by them respectively. ‘T’o each copy thus posted and published
the treasurer shall attach a notice that the real estate therein mentioned,
or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the taxes, levies, in-
terest, costs, and charges due thereon, will be sold at public auction on
the first Monday of January next succeeding, between the hours of ten
in the morning and four in the afternoon, in front of the courthouse,
unless the amount for which said lands are delinquent, together with the
interest, costs, and charges, shall have been previously paid to such treas-
urer.

2. This act being, by reason of the changes in the judicial system, an
emergency act, shall be in force from its passage.