Chap. 178.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an Act
approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the
Relief of Township Creditors.

Approved March 27, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section one
of an act approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-six, entitled an act for the relief of township creditors,
be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of any county
in this commonwealth*to provide for the payment of any
outstanding debts against any of the late townships in such
county, created prior to July first, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-five, by levying on the persons and property of the
magisterial districts into which such townships have been
changed, a sufficient amount for that purpose, and for defray-
ing all costs and expenses of collecting and paying out the
same, which levy shal] be made in accordance with the late
law in regard to township levies, as far as the same is con-
sistent with this act. And said board of supervisors shall
have all the rights and remedies against delinquent township
collectors, or other delinquent township officers and their
sureties, for township levies or taxes received by them, that
was given the township board by the forty-seventh chapter
of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, or which
said board may have had by any of the laws in force at the
time of the adoption of the amendment to the constitution
in reference to county organization, which proceeding may
be had in the name of the board of supervisors, or of the
commonwealth of Virginia, at the relation of the board of
supervisors, for the benefit of the magisterial district in-
terested therein. The amount recovered in any such pro-
ceedings shall be applied by the board of supervisors to the
payment of any outstanding debts, if any, of any such town-
ship or magisterial district, and the remainder, if any, applied
by said board for the benefit of said district, as in their dis-
cretion may seem best. 7

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