Chap. 208.--JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Board of Public
Works to Audit the Claim of Cock & Collier for Work done on the
Danville and Wytheville Turnpike.

Approved March 0, 1873.

Whereas, it appears to the general assembly that about the
year 1855 John Cock, sr., and Lorenzo D. Collier, of the county
of Carroll, under the name and style of Cock and Collier, en-
tered into a contract with the Danville and Wytheville Turn-
pike Company to construct a portion of their road, and did
construct and complete the portion of the road so contracted:
for according to the terms of the said contract; and whereas,
the state of Virginia owned three-fifths of the stock of the
said Danville and Wytheville Turnpike Company, and by act
of assembly appropriated thirty-six thousand dollars for the
construction of the said turnpike road, only thirty-one thou-
sand six hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-one cents of
which have been drawn from the treasury, leaving a balance of |
four thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and nine
cents appropriated and unexpended; and whereas, there is a
balance claimed to be due the said Cock and Collier for work
done on the said turnpike road, the exact amount of which
cannot well be ascertained by the general assembly: now
therefore, for the purpose of ascertaining and determining the
said amount,

1. Resolved (the house of delegates concurring), That the
board of public works be and they are hereby authorized and
directed to hear and consider all evidence produced before
them by the said Cock and Collier, their personal representa-
tives or assigns, concerning the said claim, and thereafter, at
the earliest day practicable, report to the general assembly
what amount, if any, is due to the said Cock and Collier, their
personal representatives or assigns, from the state of Virginia.
for work done on the Danville and Wytheville turnpike road.