Chap. 177.—An ACT for the relief of the sureties of Peyton R. Ford,
late collector of Madison township of Charlotte county, Va.

Approved December 1, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to accept from Joseph C. Snell, Fenton G. North, A.
D. Ford, and the personal representatives of C. M. Pugh,
deceased, sureties of Peyton R. Ford, late collector of Madi-
son township in the county of Charlotte, or any of them, in
the bonds of the state, with all unmatured coupons attached,
issued under the act approved February fourteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to ascertain and
declare Virginia’s equitable share of the debt, and so forth;
to the amount of the balance now due by them upon a judg-
ment in favor of the commonwealth against said Peyton R.
Ford, late collector as aforesaid, and his sureties for the sum
of thirteen hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-nine
cents, to be discharged by the payment of nine hundred and
fifty-two dollars and forty-four cents, with interest thereon
from the eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, until paid in full discharge of all liability of said sure-
tics by reasun of said judgment: provided said bonds shall be
delivered within twelve months from this date, and that noth-
ing herein shall be construed as releasing said Peyton R.
Ford from his liability upon said judgment.

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