Chap. 197,—An ACT for the Relief of the late Sheriffs of Pittsylvania
County.

Approved March 13, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the late she-
riffs of Pittsylvania county be and they are hereby authorized
to receive and collect all taxes, fee bills, muster fines and
county levies, which were due in the years eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-three, and eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and
are still unpaid; and they shall hereby possess the same legal
right in the collection of the same that they had or possessed
at the periods hereinbefore mentioned: provided, that the
taxes, fee bills, muster fines and county levies, due in the years
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eighteen hundred and _ sixty-
three and eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall be adjusted
and liquidated in accordance with the provisions of an act
passed March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled
an act providing for the adjustment of lhabilities arising under _
contracts and wills made between the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the tenth day of April,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, as amended by an act passed
February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Said right shall continue two years from the passage of this act:
provided, that no such sheriff shall be entitled to the benefit of
this act who has not fully paid and discharged all accounts and
habilities charged against him upon the books of the auditor
of this state; and provided, further, that where a sheriff having
such taxes, fee bills, muster fines and county levies due him,
shall have departed this life, it shall be lawful for his personal
representative to place them in the hands of the sheriff of his
county, who shall collect the same according to the provisions
of this act.

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