ACTS

AND

JOINT RESOLUTIONS

PASSED BY THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.

CHAPTER 1.-An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed April 29, 1874, to release the Commonwealth's claim to certain real estate to heirs of Frederick David Haroth.

Approved December 12, 1874.

Whereas it appears that in transcribing the act approved Preamble April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act to release to the heirs of Frederick Davis Haroth, the commonwealth's right to certain real estate of which he died seized, upon proof of heirship and irregularity of proceedings to escheat, the name of said Haroth was inadvertently transcribed and written Frederick Davis Haroth, instead of Frederick David Haroth: Therefore,

to release title

wealth to cer-.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Act passed the act passed April the twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and April 29th, 1874, seventy-four, entitled an act to release to the heirs of Fred- of commonerick Davis Haroth the commonwealth right to certain real tain real estate estate, of which he died seized, upon proof of heirship and to Frederick irregularity of proceedings to escheat, be amended and re- amended enacted so as to read as follows:

Whereas Frederick David Harotb, late of the city of Richmond, died in or about the year eighteen hundred and sixtyfive, seized of certain real estate in this commonwealth, but intestate and leaving no heir at law then a citizen of the United States; and whereas. by title two, chapter four, section eighteen, of the Code, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, any alien, not an enemy, may acquire, by purchase or descent, and hold real estate in this state, and the same shall be transmitted in the same manner as real estate held by citizens; and whereas Theodore Haroth, who claims to be the son of the said Frederick David Haroth, de

Davis Haroth,