Chap. 347.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 24 of acts of assembly,
session 1889-90, entitled “an act authorizing the auditor of public accounts
to issue duplicate warrants,” approved January 24, 1890.

. Approved December 8, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
twenty-four, acts of assembly, session eighteen hundred and eighty-nine-
*ainety, entitled “an act authorizing the auditor of public accounts to
issue duplicate warrants,” approved January twenty-four, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Upon satisfactory proof being presented to the auditor of public
accounts, or to the second auditor, that any warrant drawn by either
of such auditors or his predecessors upon the treasurer of the Common-
wealth has becn lost or destroyed before having been paid, it shall be law-
ful for said auditor who issued or from whose office was issued the
original warrant, to issue a duplicate therefor upon a bond being exe-
cuted, with such security as shall be approved by him, payable to the
Commonwealth, in the penalty of double the amount of such warrant,
and conditioned to save harmless the Commonwealth from any loss
occasioned by the issuing of such duplicate warrants: provided, that
each duplicate warrant so issued shall show upon its face that it is a du-
plicate, and that no duplicate shall be issued within nincty days of the is-
suing of said original warrant.

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