Chap. 6.—An ACT to legalize the action of the County Court of Amherst
County in funding the interest due on the bonds of said county to the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company.

Passed December 11, 1866.

Whereas the county court of Amherst, at a quarterly ses-
sion held for said county on the nineteenth day of Novem-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, a majority of the justices
of the county being present, did order that the coupons of
interest, which have matured on the bonds issued by the
county, in pursuance of law, for payment of a subscription to
the stock of the Orange and Alexandria railroad, with inte-
rest on said coupons from the date at which they respectively
matured, be funded by R. M. Taliaferro, treasurer of the
county, by delivering to the holders of said bonds coupon
bonds, payable at five years, or within that period, at the op-
tion of the county court—which bonds shall bear date on the
first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and
the interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum,
to be payable annually on that day; and whereas, doubts
have arisen as to the legality of such proceeding on the part
of: said county court of Amherst: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the action
of said county court of Amherst, as set forth in the above
preamble, be and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed.

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