Chap. 151.—An ACT for the relief of E. B. Holloman, John Lessner,
and other sureties of J. P. Hodges, late clerk of the county court of
Norfolk county.

Approved March 18, 1876.

Whereas, a judgment was obtained on the twenty-eighth
day 0% May, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, in the circuit
court of the city of Richmond, by the commonwealth of Vir-
ginia against J. P. Hodges, clerk of the county court of Nor-
folk county, and E. B. Holloman, ©. C. Burr, Jeramiah Butler,
and Joseph Kleppet, his sureties, for the sum of sixteen hun-
dred and nine dollars and seventeen cents, for the balance of
the tax on law process, deeds, &c., due from said J. P. Hodges,
clerk as uforesaid, for the period embraced from the first day
of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the first day of
September, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, with interest
to be computed at the rate of twelve per centum per annum,
as set forth in said judgment; also two hundred and forty-one
dollars and thirty-eight cents damages thereon according to
law. And whereas, on the said twenty-eighth day of May,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five, in the said circuit court of
the city of Richmond, a judgment was also obtained by the
commonwealth of Virginia against the said J. P. Hodges,
clerk as aforesaid, and John Lessner, L. C. Thayer, and Lu-
ther Lee, Junior, his sureties, for the sum of fourteen hundred
and three dollars and ninety-one cents, for the balance of
taxes on law process, deeds, &c., from the first day of Septem-
ber, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to the first day of
September, eighteen hundred and seventy three, due by said
J. P. Hodges, clerk as aforesaid, with interest at the rate of
twelve per centum per annum from the fifteenth day of De-
cember, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, until paid; also,
two hundred and ten dollars and six cents, for damages thereon
according to law, certain portions of which judgments have
already been paid by said sureties; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and di-
rected to receive trom the said sureties, or either of them, in
discharge of the said judgments, the principal sums for which
the said judgments were awarded, with interest thereon to be
computed at the rate of six per centum per annum, and the
costs of suit and collection, abating therefrom the excess ef
interest over six per cenfum per annum for which the said
judgments were awarded, and also the damages therefrom
aforementioned : provided, that nothing berein contained shall
be construed as releasing the said J. P. Hodges from the pay-
ment of any portion of said judgment and damages.

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