Chap. 71.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact an act approved February 26, 1910, entitled an act to amend
and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended,
approved February 20, 1912. (H. B. 73)

Approved February 18, 1915.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section five
hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act
approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled an
act to amend and re-enact section five hundred and twenty-five of the
(ode of Virginia, as heretofore amended, being amended and re-enacted
as follows:

Section 525. The transfer fees allowed by law to the commissioners
of the revenue of the several counties and cities of the State shall be
collected by the clerk of the court of record of said counties and cities
at the time of recording deed or will; and provided, further, that in no
case shall but one fee be charged, and in order to avoid any miscon-
ception of this act the fee shall be collected from the first vendee, and no
additional fee for the transfer of any property on which said fee has
been paid shall be collected during the fiscal year terminating on the
thirty-first day of December of each year. The clerk at the time the
commissioners of the revenue return to the clerk’s office the land books,
according to law, shall account to them for the fees so collected, deducting
therefrom a commission of ten per centum for his services, except that
the clerks of the corporation courts of the cities of Alexandria and
Bristol, and the clerks of the circuit courts of Pulaski, Roanoke and
Culpeper counties, may deduct therefrom a commission of twenty-five
per centum for their services; provided, however, that the provisions of
this act shall not apply to the counties of Louisa, Madison, Greene,
Grayson, Alleghany, Caroline and Craig and the city of Clifton Forge.