Chap. 407.—An ACT for the relief of Benjamin D. Long’s estate from certain
delinquent taxes.

Approved February 20, 1900.

Whereas in eighteen hundred and eighty the creditors of Benjamin
D. Long, deceased, filed their bill in chancery in the circuit court for
Culpeper county, Virginia, for subjecting his real estate to the payr
of their debts, and the said suit has been pending ever since on acc
of the inability to find purchasers for the land; and

Whereas no taxes have been paid on the land from eighteen hun
and seventy-three to eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, except for
year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, which delinquent tax amo
to two hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents; and

Whereas the commissioners in the cause on November eleventh, «
teen hundred and ninety-nine, sold eighty and three-fourths acres of
land at one dollar and eighty cents to one W. W. Butler, and the rem
ing seventy acres to one F. Kibler at one dollar and eighty cents per :
making the total amount received for said land two hundred and seve
one dollars and thirty-five cents; and

Whereas the court costs and officers fees amount to ninety-one do
and fifty-three cents, taken from the amount of the purchase mc
leaves one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-two cents; th
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the c
of the county court for Culpeper county, Virginia, be, and he is her
directed to receive the sum of one hundred and seventy-nine dollars
eighty-two cents in full of all delinquent taxes against the estat
Benjamin D. Long, and he is further directed to mark as satisfied
delinquent taxes from the years eighteen hundred and seventy-t!
to eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, charged against the said lan
the name of Benjamin D. Long’s estate.

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