Chap. 37.—An ACT to authorize the clerk of the court of hustings for the city of
Portsmouth, Virginia, to transcribe and consolidate the general indices to
judgments in his office from 1858 to August 1, 1931, and to make said con-
solidated transcript a legal record of judgments docketed in his office. [H B 76]

Approved February 20, 1932

Whereas, on account of the mutilated and dilapidated condition of
general index to judgments, number one (1), in the office of the clerk
of the court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, it became neces-
sary to transcribe said general index; and

Whereas, in transcribing said general index to judgments, the
clerk of the said court has eliminated therefrom all reference to judg-
ments which had been marked “‘satisfied,’ prior to the first day of
August, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and also all reference to
judgments docketed prior to April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, on which no executions have issued since the first day of
January, nineteen hundred and eleven, said judgments having expired
_ by limitation ; and

Whereas, the clerk of the said court has consolidated said general
index to judgments number one (1) with general index to judgments,
number two (2), which books contained reference to all judgments
docketed in his office from eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, to August
first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, not eliminated as aforesaid, into
one book, known as “general index judgment lien dockets,” number
one (1) ; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That said
“general index judgment lien dockets,” number one (1), in the office of
the clerk of the court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia,
is hereby validated and shall be, a legal record of judgment docketed
as provided by law, in the office of the clerk of the court of hustings
for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, from eighteen hundred and fifty-
eight, to August first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, not theretofore
marked “‘satisfied,”’ or barred by the statute limitations.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage. :