Chap. 135.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Entitled an Act for
the Relief of the Sureties of William Sample, Late Sheriff of Russell
County.
Approved March 15, 1871.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of an act entitled an act for the relief of the
sureties of William Sample, late sheriff of Russell county, ap-
proved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
“§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That authority
be given the auditor of public accounts to suspend the collec-
tion of a judgment in the name of the commonwealth against
William Sample, late sheriff of Russell county, and Aaron H.
Nash, Samuel H. Nash, and others, his sureties, until the first
day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-one: pro-
vided he shall be satistied that the same is sufticiently secured
by the judgment lien; but nothing herein contained shall be
construed to prohibit the auditor from collecting the debt
whenever he may think proper to do so.”
2. This act shall be in.force from its passage.