Chap. 398.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved Dec’r
1, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved
March 17, 1884, entitled an act for the relief of the sureties of Chas.
W. Walker, late treasurer of Giles county, and the relief of,the
sureties of his deputies.

Approved March 3, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the act approved December first, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved
March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled
an act for the relief of the sureties of Charles W. Walker, late
treasurer of Giles county, be amended and re-enacted, so as to
read as follows: .

$1. That the auditor of public accounts be and he is hereby
directed to receive from Charles E. Pack, Lorenzo D. Hale,
William P. Shumate, Jacob H. Sibold, William L. Surface,
and Lewis Albert, survivors of themselves and William H.
Hale, deceased, sureties of Charles W. Walker, late treas-
urer of Giles county, Virginia, or any of them, bonds that may
be issued under the act approved February fourteen, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to declare Virginia’ S
equitable share of the public debt, and so forth, at their par
value, to the amount due by the said Charles W. Walker, Jate
treasurer of Giles county, to the state of Virginia: provided,
that the said bonds shall be paid to the treasurer of the state of
Virginia within three years after the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four; and provided, further, that each of
said sureties now living shall, within four months from the pas-
sage of this act, confess judgment inthe circuit court of the
city of Richmond, for the amount due from them as said sure-
ties. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as releasing
the said Charles W. Walker. late treasurer of Giles county,
Virginia, for his liability for the difference between the amount
due by him and the market value of the aforesaid bonds as
received from his sureties.

2. Be it further enacted, that the sureties of any deputy of
said C. W. Walker, as such late treasurer, who may be in ar-
rears to said Walker on account of any default of said deputy
for failure in collecting and paying over any taxes placed in his
hands for collection, shall be entitled to the benefit of the relief
afforded by this act, and it shall be lawful for said sureties of
such deputy to pay to the state the bonds referred to in the
preceding section, which, when so paid, shall be placed to the
credit of the said sureties of said C. W. Walker, as mentioned
therein, and the said sureties of such defaulting deputy shall
thereupon be entitled to credit for the amount of said bonds so
paid as aforesaid.

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