Chap. 136.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 925 of chapter 42 of
the Code of Virginia.

Approved March 5, 1908.

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

§925. Courthouse, clerk’s office and jail to be provided by supervi-
sors and council; providing for offices for treasurer, commissioners of
the revenue and Commonwealth’s attorneys, if deemed proper by super-
visors and council.—There should be provided by the board of supervi-
sors of every county and by the council of every city a courthouse,
clerk’s office and jail, the cost whereof, and of the land on which.they
may be, and of keeping the same in good order, shall be chargeable to the
county or city, the fee simple of the lands shall be in the county or
city, and the supervisors of the county or the council of the city may
purchase so much land as, with what it has, will make two acres,
whereof, what may be necessary for the purposes, shall be occupied
with the courthouse, clerk’s office and jail, and the residue planted with
trees, and kept as a place for the people of the county or city to meet
and confer together: provided, however, the board of supervisors of
any county or the council of any city may, if such board or council
deem it proper, provide offices for the treasurer, commissioners of the
revenue and the Commonwealth’s attorney for such county or city.