Chap. 624.—An ACT for the relief of Edward O. F. Custis and E. E. Miles, of
Accomac county.

Approved March 5, 1894.

Whereas on the thirteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, the schooner Elexina was sold by the sheriff of Accomac
county under an order of the county court of said county, said
schooner having been previously convicted of illegal dredging in
the waters of this state; and whereas at said sale Edward O. F.
Custis and E. E. Miles, of Accomac county, became bidders for her
and purchased her for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars,
which amount was duly paid to the sheriff by the said Edward O.
F. Custis and E. E. Miles; and whereas they, the purchasers, con-
fidently believing that, under section twenty-one hundred and eighty-
six of the code, the state guaranteed to them a lawful title to said
boat, proceeded to launch and equip said schooner for their own use,
at a further expense to themselves of one hundred and thirteen dol-
Jars and seventy-two cents; and whereas, after having been thus
bought, launched and equipped by the aforesaid parties, certain libe
proceedings were entered in the United States courts by one S
Fielder Hastings, of Crisfield, Maryland, for a debt contracted by
said schooner Elexina prior to said sale by the sheriff of Accomac
of which the said purchasers had no knowledge, said proceedings
resulting in the sale of the schooner Elexina by a marshal of the
United States on the thirty-first day of January, eighteen hundred
and ninety-three: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to draw a war:
rant upon the treasury in favor of the said Edward O. F. Custis and
E. E. Miles for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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