Chap. 398.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act ap-
proved January 14, 1882, entitled an act to prevent frauds on the
commonwealth and the holders of her securities, in the collection
and disbursement of revenue.

Approved March 12, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the veneral assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act approved January fourteen, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to prevent frauds
on the commonwealth and the holders of her securities, mn
the collection and disbursement of revenues, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That whenever any tax- payer, or his agent, shall tender to
any person whose duty it is to collect or receive taxes. debts,
or demands due the commonwealth, any papers or instru-
ments in print, writing, or engraving, purporting to be coupons
detached from bonds of the commonwealth, issued under the
act of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled an act to
fund the public debt, or from the bonds of the commonwealth,
issued under the act of March twenty-eighth, cighteen hun-
dred and seventy-nine, entitled an act to provide a plan of
settlement of the public debt; in payment of any such taxes,
debts, and demands, the person to whom such papers are
tendered, shall receive the same, giving the party tendering,
a receipt, stating that he has reccived the same for the pur-
pose of identification and verification.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.