Chap. 258.—An ACT to require the clerks of courts to keep a separate book
to be known as the Federal farm loan mortgage book and to provide how
farm loan mortgages shall be recorded. {H B 52]

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the clerks of the several courts of the State shall keep a separate
book, which shall be known as the Federal farm loan mortgage
book, in which shall be recorded mortgages executed to secure the
payment of loans made by Federal land banks under authority
of the act of congress, approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred
and sixteen, known as the Federal farm loan act, which mortgages,
when so recorded in such book shall be indexed in the proper gen-
eral index book, as well as in the index to said farm loan mortgage
book, provided that any such clerk instead of providing such sepa-
rate book may immediately spread upon the book in which deeds
are recorded in his office any and all proper mortgages or deeds of
trust executed to secure such loans and all of such mortgages and
deeds of trust shall be immediately spread upon such records when
received, so that the original thereof may be returned to the Federal
land bank as soon as possible.