Chap. 291.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act, Approved July 9, 1870,
Entitled an Act for the Relief of the Sureties of Washington Dearmont,
Late Sheriff of Clarke County, Virginia.

Approved March 31, 1871.

“$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the audi-
tor of public accounts shall be authorized, and he is hereby
directed upon a settlement of the judgments in the name of
the commonwealth of Virginia against Washington Dearmont,
late sheriff of Clarke county, and his sureties, for his default
in the payment of the revenue for the years eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven and sixty-eight, to receive from said sureties,
in discharge of said judgment against them, the payment of
the principal, legal, interest, and costs, and expenses of collec-
tion, abating therefrom the damages which have been awarded
for said default, abating also all interest charged or entered
up against them in excess of six per centum, for the years
judgments for any insolvents which may be proved within
ninety days from the passage of this act, if he shall be satis-
fied that the same were not lost by the neglect or default of
the said Washington Dearmont while in office: provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this act shall be construed to release said
Dearmont from any portion of said judgment.

“§ 2. This act shall bein force from its passage.”