Chap. 244.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 2, 1904,
entitled “an act to provide for the release of contracts for sale of personal prop-
erty, docketed under section 2462 of the Code of Virginia, approved 28th day of
February, 1890.”

Approved March 15, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That each vendor
in a contract for the sale of personal property docketed under section
twenty-four hundred and sixty-two of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, upon payment to him of the amount of purchase price in full,
as set forth in said contract, shall mark, or cause to be marked, in the
manner hereinafter stated, the same satisfied upon the margin of the
page of the book where the same is recorded, which note of satisfaction,
when signed by such vendor or his duly authorized agent, or attorney,
and attested by the clerk in whose office such contract is docketed, shall
operate as a release of all claims of such vendor therein; or upon the
written notice by the vendor, his duly authorized agent or attorney, to the
clerk in whose office the contract is docketed, stating therein that said
contract has been fully paid by the vendee, the clerk shall, upon such
notice, mark said contract satisfied upon the margin of the page of the
book wherein such contract is docketed, and this shall operate as a re-
lease of all claims of such vendor, as to all the goods described in the
contract so docketed, and the clerk for attesting such release as is herein
provided, or for making said contract satisfied upon the written request
of the vendor, his duly authorized agent or attorney, shall have a fee of
twenty-five cents, to be paid by the vendee.

2. Any vendor failing or neglecting to so release a contract after the
whole amount thereof has been paid to him, and within fifteen days
after such vendor shall have received written notice from the vendee to
mark said contract satisfied, he shall forfeit five dollars to the vendee.

3. Whenever such vendee shall be indebted for rent of the house
wherein the personal property, described in said contract, is stored or
kept, and the landlord or his duly authorized agent has taken action to
recover said rent, the said vendor, at the request of the landlord, or his
duly authorized agent or attorney, shall state under oath the balance due
on said contract of sale, and upon the payment of such balance by the
vendee, shall release and mark the said contract satisfied in accordance
with the terms and provisions of this act.

- 4.° All acts or Per's of acts in conflict with this act, be, and a they are
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