Chap. 542.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2258 of the Code of Vir-
ginia of 1919, relative to filing of interrogatories and answers for assessing
personal property for taxation. (H B 137]

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-two hundred and fifty-eight of the Code of Virginia of nineteen
hundred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 2258. Where interrogatories and answers to be filed.—
The commissioner or commissioners of the revenue in a county shall
file the interrogatories and answers with the clerk of .the circuit court
of the county; in a city with the clerk of the corporation or hustings
court of the city, but if the city have no such court then the inter-
rogatories and answers shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court,
which interrogatories and answers shall be carefully preserved on a
permanent file by the clerk, and it shall be a misdemeanor to abstract,
mutilate or destroy such interrogatories; provided, however, that after
the same shall have been on file four years they may be destroyed by
such clerk upon. the order of the court of which he is the clerk, duly
entered of record in the common law order book of the said court.