Chap. 35.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2491 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to the redemption of real estate sold for delinquent taxes.
[H. B. 16]
Approved September 11, 1933

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-four hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2491. The previous owner of ahy such real estate, his heirs,
or assigns, or any person having the right to charge the same, with a
debt, may, until further sale thereof, redeem such real estate by paying
to the clerk of the circuit court of the county or corporation court of
the city in which such real estate is situated the amount for which the
sale was made, together with such additional sums as would have ac-
crued from taxes and levies if the same had not been purchased by the
treasurer in the name of the Comptroller, with interest on the amount
for which the sale was made at the rate of six per centum from the day
of sale, and on the additional sums from the fifteenth day of December
in the year in which the same would have accrued; provided, however,
that any person having the right to redeem any such real estate shall
have the right to make partial payments thereon from time to time as
he may desire, no payment, however, to be less than twenty-five per
centum of the entire amount necessary to redeem, which payments shall
be received by the clerk and endorsed at the appropriate place on the
delinquent land book. When any such real estate shall be fully redeemed
by the payment of all the taxes, interest and costs necessary for the
full redemption thereof as hereinabove required, the clerk shall endorse
the fact of such payment on the delinquent land book opposite the
entry of the tract or lot. When real estate is redeemed as provided in
this section the clerk shall certify the fact to the commissioner of the
revenue of the county or city wherein such real estate lies. For making
statement, calculating interest, and so forth, the said clerk shall be
entitled to a fee of fifty cents, payable by the person redeeming his
land. The clerk shall annually, at the time he makes report to the
Comptroller, of taxes collected by him, report upon blanks to be fur-
nished by the Comptroller the amounts received by him for redemption
of delinquent lands, and shall pay the same into the public treasury at
the time fixed by law for paying in other public money received by him.
For his services in receiving this money and paying it into the treasury
he shall be entitled to a commission of five per centum.

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