Chap. 34.—An ACT to require the debt due the Commonwealth by the insolvent
Planters and Mechanics bank of Petersburg, Virginia, to be charged off the
accounts kept by the auditor of public accounts and the treasurer, respectively,
which show the amounts of money from time to time in the treasury to the
eredit of the Commonwealth, and to transfer said item to the account of sus-
pended debts.

Approved February 8, 1908.

Whereas, there has been for a number of years a balance of sixty-eight
thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and thirty cents due to the
Commonwealth by the insolvent Planters and Mechanics bank of Peters-
burg, Virginia, and its sureties upon its bond as one of the State de-
positories, upon which default was made more than twenty-one years
ago, and there is little likelihood that any part of the unpaid balance of
said debt will ever be collected; and whereas said amount is included
in the balances shown by the books kept by the auditor of public accounts
and the treasurer to be to the credit of the Commonwealth in her treas-
ury, and is misléading in respect to the amount of money actually in the
treasury, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts and the treasurer of the Commonwealth be authorized
and directed to strike and deduct the above item of sixty-eight thousand
one hundred and forty-two dollars and thirty cents from the accounts
kept by said officers respectively, which from time to time show the
balance in the treasury to the credit of the Commonwealth, and the
auditor of public accounts will cause said item to be properly entered
upon an account of suspended debts due the Commonwealth, to be kept
in his office under his direction.