Chap. 294.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5216 of the Code of 1H'S 93}
Approved March 20, 1924.

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

Section 5216. Partition, and recovery, of land, and assignment of
dower and curtesy to be recorded, and indexed.—The clerk of the court
wherein there is any partition of, or assignment of dower or curtesy in
land, under any order or decree, or any recovery of land under judgment
or decree, shall transmit to the clerk of the court of each county or cor-
poration wherein such land is, or if the land lies within the corporate
limits of the city of Richmond, to the clerk of the chancery court of the
said city, a copy of such order, judgment, or decree, and of such parti-
tion or assignment, and of the order confirming the same, and along
therewith such description of the land as may appear in the papers of
the cause. And the clerk of the court of such county or corporation,
or of the said chancery court, as the case may be, shall record the same
in his deed book, and index it in the name of the person who had the
land before, and also in the name of the person who became entitled
under such partition, assignment or recovery.

2. Anemergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.