Chap. 229.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2184 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the issuance of duplicate warrants by the comptroller or
State treasurer, where the original warrant has been lost. [IS B 42]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-one hundred and eighty-four of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2184. Upon satisfactory proof being presented to the
comptroller or to the State treasurer, that any warrant heretofore or
hereafter drawn by either the comptroller or the State treasurer. or
his predecessors, upon the treasury of the Commonwealth, has been lost
or destroyed before having been paid, it shall be lawful for said comp-
troller or State treasurer 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 war-
rants, and conditioned to save harmless the Commonwealth from any
loss occasioned by the issuing of such duplicate warrant; provided,
that each duplicate warrant shall show upon its face that it is a dupli-
cate, and that no duplicate shall be issued within sixty days of the
issuing of the said original warrant; provided, “however that if the
original warrant was issued to any eleemosynary or educational in-
stitution of the State, for money appropriated to said institution, or
to the treasurer of any county or city in the State, for money appor-
tioned to such county or city out of the school fund and to be dis-
bursed by such treasurer in payment of school warrants, or to 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 con-
tracted in the operation of the public schools in such district, or in the
construction of graded school buildings, or to the treasurer of any
county or city in the State for money apportioned to such county or
city from the gas tax, and such warrant being lost or destroyed with-
out having been paid, the comptroller or State treasurer 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 duplicate 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 war-
rant is issued, the comptroller or State treasurer 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 comptroller or the State treasurer who issued the dup-
licate warrant.