Chap. 279.—An ACT to release all liens upon real estate for taxes and levies
due and payable to the Commonwealth or any political sub-division thereof
prior to January 1, 1926; to provide that the right, title and interest of the
Commonwealth in and to all real estate sold for taxes and levies assessed
prior to January 1, 1916, which real estate has been purchased by the Com-
monwealth and not resold is released unto and vested by operation of law
in the person or persons who owned the real estate at the time the Common-
wealth so acquired title, or persons claiming, or to claim by, through or under
them; and to provide that on and after July 1, 1936, no clerk shall make a
tax deed conveying any real estate sold for delinquent taxes or levies assessed
prior to January 1, 1916. [H B 372]

Approved March 28, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That all
liens upon real estate for taxes and levies due and payable to the
Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof prior to the first
day of January, nineteen hundred and sixteen be, and the same are
hereby, released.

2. The right, title and interest of the Commonwealth of Virginia
in and to all real estate sold for taxes and levies assessed prior to the
first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixteen, which real estate
has been purchased by the Commonwealth and not resold, is hereby
unconditionally released unto and vested by operation of law in the
person or persons who owned the real estate at the time the Common-
wealth so acquired title, or persons claiming, or to claim by, through,
or under them.

3. On and after July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, no
clerk of any court in Virginia shall make a tax deed conveying to any
person any real estate sold for delinquent taxes or levies assessed prior
to January first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.