Chap. 129.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3394 of the Code of Vir-
' ginia, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1920, in relation to general
indexes for clerk’s offices. [H B 52]

Approved March 9, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion thirty-three hundred and ninety-four of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and
twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3394. General indexes for clerk’s offices; daily index.—
There shall be kept in every clerk’s office in this Commonwealth a
modern, family name, or ledgerized alphabetical key-table general index
to all deed books, miscellaneous liens, will books, judgment dockets
and court order books, and it shall be the duty of the clerk to enter
therein daily, with pen and best quality of ink, or typewriter using
indelible ribbons, all intruments admitted to record, indexing each
instrument in the name or names of all parties appearing therein who
are thereby shown to be affected by said instrument, and using a
separate line or column for each, and where any conveyance is made
by a.trustee or commissioner, or person other than the owner, or is
a partition of lands, where said land is devised, it shall be indexed
in the name of said party or parties and also in the name of the pre-
vious Owner or owners, as shown by such instrument. And all deed
books, miscellaneous liens, will books, judgment dockets, and court
order books shall be numbered or otherwise adequately designated.
and the said clerk upon the delivery of any writing to him for record
required by law to be recorded, shall duly index the same upon such
general index in the manner hereinbefore required, and when said
writing has been actually transcribed on the said book shall add to
said general index the number of the book in which, and the page on
which said writing is recorded.

Provided, however, that the clerk on receipt of any such writing
for record may immediately index the same in a book to be known as
the ‘‘daily index of instruments admitted to record,” and within
thirty days, except in cities of the first class, and within ninety days
in cities of the first class, after the admission of such writing to record,
the clerk shall index all such writings indexed in said daily index in
the appropriate general index as hereinbefore provided. Said daily
index book shall, at all times, be kept in the office of said clerk, and
conveniently available for examination by the public. During the
period above permitted for transfer from said daily index to said gen-
eral index, indexing in said daily index shall be a sufficient compliance
with the requirements of this act as to indexing.

And provided, further, that the judge of any court of record in
term, or in vacation, may make such order or orders as may be deemed
advisable as to the time and method of indexing the order books in
the clerk’s office of such court, and shall have full power to dispense
entirely with a general index for order books, of such court.