Chap. 414.—An ACT for the Relief of Thos. R. Beasley and C. Tompkins,
fureties of Wm. H. Mansfield, late Sheriff of Spotsylvania County.

Approved November 5, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Thos. R.
Beasley and C. Tompkins, sureties of Wm. H. Mansfield, late
sheriff of Spotsylvania county, be and they are hereby relieved
from the payment of three hundred and eighty-seven dollars
and twenty-six cents, excessive interest, and four hundred and
one dollars and twenty cents, damages awarded against them
as sureties aforesaid, by a judgment of the circuit court ot the
city of Richmond, on the ninth day of December, eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine, for detault in the payment of the rev-
enue of said county: provided, that this act shall not be con-
strued as relieving said parties, or either of them, from the
payment of the sums hereinbefore mentioned until the princi-
pal of said judgment, with legal interest thereon, and the.
costs of suit, shall have been paid.

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