Chap. 48.—An ACT to Amend and Re-euact the Act for the Relief of Wm.
(B. Blair, approved April 23, 1870.

Approved January 18, 1871.

Whereas, it has been satisfactorily shown to the general as-
sembly of Virginia, that five certificates of debt of the state
of Virginia, the property of William B. Blair, a citizen of Vir-
ginia, for one thousand dollars each, numbered two thousand
three hundred and thirty-two, seven thousand and seventy-
five, eleven thousand one bundred and fifty-seven, eleven thou-
sand three hundred and fifty-five, and eleven thousand four
hundred and forty-eight, issued under the act passed March
twenty-ninth, eighteen bundred and fifty-one, the interest on
which had been paid to the first day of January, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five, were lost in the county of Amelia, on or
about the twenty-second day of April, eighteen hundred and
sixty-five, under circumstances rendering it certain that they
were destroyed; and the said William B. Blair having adver-
tised the loss, and given notice thereof to the proper authori-
ties of the state: therefore,

“$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the se-
cond auditor be and he is hereby directed to issue five regis-
tered certificates of state stock for the sum of one thousand
dollars each, with interest from the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in lieu of the certificates
thus lost, conformably to the laws in relation to the issue of
registered certificates of state stock; and that he also issue to
the said William B. Blair certificates of state stock for the in-
terest accruing prior to the first day of January, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-seven, on the said lost certificates and unpaid,
according to the provisions of the act entitled an act to pro-
vide for funding the interest upon the public debt, passed
March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six : provided, how-
ever, that before the same shall be issued, the said William B.
Blair shall file in the office of the second auditor, a bond, pay-
able to the commonwealth of Virginia, in the penalty of fifteen
thousand dollars, with two or more sufficient securities, to be
approved by the governor of the commonwealth of Virginia,
conditioned to indemnify the commonwealth and all persons
against loss in consequence of the issuing of said certificates,
or either of them, in place of the said lost certificates, or tor
the interest due thereon.

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