CHAPTER 220

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 55-
106.1, providing for the recording and indexing of certain documents
showing changes of names.

[H 620]

Approved March 7, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
55-106.1 as follows:

§ 55-106.1. A duly authenticated copy of a marriage license with the
certificate of the person celebrating the marriage or a duly authenticated
copy of a final decree of divorce showing a change of name of a woman
shall be entitled to be admitted to record in the clerk’s office wherein deeds
are recorded of the county or city wherein any land which, or an interest
in which, is owned by such woman lies, and shall be indexed by such clerk
in the grantor and grantee indices in his office.