Chap. 2.—An ACT forthe relief of the tax-payers of the county of
Orange.

Approved December 18, 1878.

Whereas Rudolph G. Eeklof, late treasurer of Orange
county, departed this life on the fifth day of October, eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight, and bis successor did not qualify
until the twenty-eighth “day of October, cighteen hundred and
seventy-eight, in consequence whereof no opportunity has been
afforded to the tax-payers of said county to avail themselves of
the rebate of two per centum provided for by law in the case of
persons paying their taxes before the first day of December
and they have been subjecte 1 to the charge of five per centum
provided for by law in the case of persons failing to pay one-
half of their taxes before the first day of December ; there-
fore, ¢

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That :
the treasurer of Orange county be and he is hereby authorized !
to rebate two per centum on the taxes and levies of all tax:
payers, who shall pay all taxes and levies assessed against them
for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, before the first
day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and that !
he shall not add the five per centum provided for by law to he ;
added to the taxes and levies of all persons who might fail to
pay one half of the sam2 before the first day of December to
the taxes and levies of any person who shall pay the said half
before the first day of Februars, eighteen hundred and seventy-
nine, and the time for the first settlement of the said treasurer 7
of Orange county as now provided for by law is hereby ex- ¢
tended to the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and
seventy-nine.

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