Chap. 58.—An ACT for the Relief of C. B. Gardner, Administrator of W.
H. Ragan, and Stephen Childress and Others, Sureties of said Ragan
from the Payment of $883 59 Damages, heretofore Awarded against John
R. Francis, late Sheriff of Montgomery County, and his Sureties.

Approved Iebruary 3, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Charles B. Gardner, as administrator of William H. Ragan, de-
ceased, Stephen Childress, John Grayson, Charles EF. Thomp.-
son, John Elliott, Daniel H. Bird, and James T. Miller, be and
they are hereby relieved from the payment of eight hundred
and eighty-three dollars and fifty-nine cents, damages hereto.
fore recovered by the commonwealth of Virginia against Jobn
R. Francis, late sheriff of Montgomery county, and his sure-
ties, by judgment, bearing date the eleventh day of June.
eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; the said sum being also in.
cluded in and a part of a bond for four thousand seven hun-
dred dollars, executed by William H. Ragan, Stephen Child-
ress, John Grayson, Charles I’. Thompson, John Elliott, Daniel
H. Bird, James T. Miller, and the said John R. Francis, on the
seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy; which
bond was executed upon the following conditions: that whereas,
on the seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy,
John W. Wright, deputy for A. 13. Thompson, sheriff of the
city of Richmond, sold certain real estate under execution is-
sued from the circuit court of the city of Richmond, in favor
of the commonwealth of Virginia against John R. Francis,
late sheriff of Montgomery, and his securities, and at the said
sale, William II. Ragan became the purchaser of all the inte-
rest of John R. Francis in and to the following real estate, to
wit: thirty-two and one-half acres of land standing on the
commissioner’s book in the name of said John R. Francis;
one hundred and twenty-nine and one-fourth acres of land
standing on the said books in the name of Andrew Thomp-
son’s representatives; all the interest in one-half of two hun-
dred and forty-two acres of said land, standing on the commis-
sioner’s books in the name of Miles Francis; all the above
lands lie on Meadow creek, in Montgomery county, adjoining
the lands of H. M. Folkes, James H. Sempkins, et als—he be-
ing late sheriff as aforesaid—at the price of four thousand
seven hundred dollars: now, therefore, if the said William H.
Ragan will punctually pay the said sum of four thousand seven
hundred dollars, the whole of the purchase money for the
aforesaid property, when the same becomes due and payable
as above stated, then the above obligation is to be void, else
to remain in full force and virtue.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.