Chap. 77.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the general assembly of
Virginia entitled: An act authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue
duplicates, approved January 24, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act
approved April 2, 1902, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act
approved December 8, 1903.

Approved February 25, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled, “an act authorizing the auditor of public accounts to issue
duplicate warrants,” approved January twenty-fourth, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, as amended and re-enacted by and act approved April
second, nineteen hundred and two, and as amended and re-enacted by
an act approved December eighth, nineteen hundred and three, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Upon satisfactory proof being presented to the auditor of public ac-
counts, or to the second auditor, that any warrant heretofore or hereafter
drawn by either of such auditors or his predecessors, upon the treasurer of
the Commonwealth, has been lost or destroyed before having been
‘paid, it shall be lawful for said auditor who issued, or from whose office
was issued the original warrant, to issue a duplicate therefor upon a
bond being executed, with such security as shall be approved by him,
payable to the Commonwealth, in the penalty of double the amount of
such warrant, and conditioned to save harmless the Commonwealth
from any loss occasioned by the issuing of such duplicate warrant; pro-
vided, that each duplicate warrant shall show upon its face that it is a
duplicate, and that no duplicate shall be issued within ninety days of
the issuing of said original warrant; provided, however, that if the
original warrant was issued to any eleemosynary or educational in-
stitution of the State, for money appropriatel to said institution, or to
the treasurer of any county or city in the State, for money apportioned
to such county or city out of the school fund and to be disbursed by
such treasurer in payment of school warrants, or be issued to any district
school board of any county for money to be disbursed by such board in
payment and settlement of any claims lawfully contracted in the opera-
tion of the public schools in such district, or in the construction of
graded school buildings, and such warrant be lost or destroyed without
having been paid, the auditor who issued, or from whose office the
original warrant was issued, or if issued by his predecessor, shall issue
a duplicate warrant therefor, showing upon its face that it is a dupli-
cate, within thirty days from the date of issuing the original warrant,
upon satisfactory proof of the loss or destruction of the original warrant,
and no indemnifying bond shall be required; and provided further,
that in any case when a duplicate warrant is issued, the auditor issuing
the same, shall in writing, notify the bank at which said warrant is
payable, that a duplicate warrant has been issued, giving the dates of
both the original and duplicate, the amount of the warrant and to
whom or to whose order the same is payable, and notifying said bank
not to pay the original warrant if presented, a copy of which notice
shall be filed in the office of the auditor who issued the duplicate
warrant.