Chap. 246.—An ACT to Authorize the Second Auditor to Issue Duplicates
of certain Warrants on the Treasury Lost or Destroyed before Pay-
ment.

Approved March 27, 1873.

Whereas, it has been satisfactorily shown to the general
assembly of Virginia that on the nineteenth day of December,
eighteen hundred and seventy two, the second auditor of the
state issued and delivered to Tazewell Taylor, of Norfolk, the
following warrants for the payment of money, viz: warrant
number two hundred and four, to Tazewell Taylor, commis-
sioner in suit of Starke, &c., for sixteen dollars; warrant num-
ber two hundred and five, to same, for fifteen dollars; warrant
number two hundred and six, to P. B. Starke, interest during
life, &c., for two hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty
cents; warrant number two hundred and seven, to same, for
two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fourteen cents, for
which he executed receipts on the books of the second auditor,
and also on the books of the treasurer, who directed the said
warrants to be paid by the Richmond banking and insurance
company bank of Richmond, and that the said warrants have
never been paid, and that there is good reason to believe that
the said warrants were lost through the mail and destroyed:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the second
auditor be and is hereby directed to issue and deliver to the
said Tazewell Taylor, or his order, duplicate of said warrants,
which the treasurer is hereby authorized to pay conformably
to the laws im relation to the payment of the auditor's war-
rants: provided, however, that before the same be issued, the
said Tazewell Taylor, or some one for him, shall file at the
office of the second auditor a bond payable to the common-

" wealth of Virginia, in penalty of twelve hundred dollars, with
one or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor
of Virginia, conditioned to indemnify the state and all persons
against loss in consequence of the issuing of said duplicate
warrants, or any of them, in place of those lost.

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