Chap. 410.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2504 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to payments to the Commonwealth for waste and unappropriated
lands. [S B 301]

Approved March 30, 1934

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

Section 2504. A person desiring to purchase any waste and unap-
propriated land authorized by law to be sold shall pay into the treasury
seventy-five cents for each acre of the same, and so in proportion for
a greater or smaller quantity. The Treasurer shall give to the purchaser
a receipt for the money paid, specifying the purpose for which the
payment is made. The receipt being delivered to the Comptroller, he
shall give to such persons a certificate thereof, stating the quantity of
land he is entitled to, and thereupon the Secretary of the Commonwealth
shall issue a warrant therefor. But this section shall not be construed
as prohibiting the issue of duplicate warrants or grants where the orig-
inals have been lost or destroyed, but where it shall be made satisfac-
torily to appear to the proper officer that the party applying for such
duplicate fully complied with the requirements of the law existing at
the time the said originals were issued, and that the same have been
lost or destroyed, he shall issue proper duplicates thereof.