Chap. 95.—An ACT to require the Auditor of Public Accounts to in-
stitute proceedings against collectors of delinquent taxes appointed by
the Auditor, and their sureties, who have fuiled to pay over their col-
lections, and settle their accounts. —

Approved February 8, 1884.

Whereas it appears by the report of the late auditor of
public accounts, in response to a resolution of the senate
agreed to on the fifteenth of December, cighteen hundred and
eighty-three, that a number of the collectors of delinquent
taxes tor the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, appointed
by him, have not paid over or accounted for the taxes col-
lected by them, and that no steps have been taken to enforce
the collection thereof from said collectors; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts be and he is hereby directed to
take the necessary steps in the circuit court of the city of
Richmond to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes or
arrears of taxes from any collectors, and the sureties of any
collectors, into whose hands such taxes have been heretofore
placed for collection, by the auditor of public accounts, and
who have failed to pay over all such taxes by them collected
and to settle their accounts in regard to such taxes so placed
in their hands for collection.

2. It is hereby made the duty of the commonwealth’s
attorney for the city of Richmond to prosecute all such
claims, and a fee of twenty ddllars shall be taxed in the costs
of each case for the benefit of said attorney, to be paid by the
defendant or defendants, if there is a recovery against them.

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