Chap. 62.—An ACT for the Relief of Robert A. Coghill and others, Sure-
ties of Robert W. Snead, late Sheriff of Amherst county.

Approved April 16, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the auditor
of public accounts shall allow a credit to Robert A. Coghill
for five hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy-three cents,
with interest on four hundred and sixty-three dollars—a part
thereof—from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine; and on fifty-six dollars and seventy-three cents,
the residue thereof, from the seventeenth day of December,
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; on his bonds for two
thousand two hundred and ten dollars, and one thousand five
hundred dollars, respectively, dated seventeenth day of De-
cember, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, payable to the com-
monwealth at six months from date; and for the purchase
money of B. L. Taliaferro’s interest in land, sold under an
execution, issued upon a judgment of the circuit court of
Richmond city, in the name of the commonwealth vs. Robert
W. Snead, late sheriff of Amherst county, and Ro. A. Pen-
dleton, George H. Dameron, 8. M. Garland, Ro. A. Coghill,
M. C. Goodwyn, A. C. Harrison, R. M. Taliaferro, B. L.
Taliaferro, R. A. Higginbotham, Leo Daniel, Jr., John J.
Schrader, A. W. Williams, Thomas Whitehead, and John S.
Sandedge, his sureties—said sum being amount in excess of
legal interest paid by him, as one of said sureties, on said
execution.
2. The said Robert W. Snead, sheriff as aforesaid, and R.
A. Pendleton, George H. Dameron, S. M. Garland, R. A.
Coghill, M. C. Goodwin, A. C. Harrison, R. M. Taliaferro, B.
L. Taliaferro, R. A. Higginbotham, Leo Daniel, Jr., John J.
Shrader, A. W. Williams, Thomas Whitehead,-and John S.
Sandedge, his sureties, excepting B. L. Taliaferro, are hereby
relieved from payment of damages, awarded against them b
said court for default in payment of the revenue: provided,
that this act shall not be construed as relieving said B. L.
Taliaferro from payment of said damages, he being the deputy
sheriff, by whose misconduct the defalcation occurred.

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