Chap. 226.—An ACT for the Relief of the Representatives of William
Debusk, deceased, as one of the Sureties of Leonidas Love, Executor
of Solomon G. Barrick, deceased.

In force March 25, 1873.

Whereas, Solomon G. Barrick did, by his last will and testa-
ment, which was admitted to probate in the county court of
Washington county, at the February term, eighteen hundred
and fifty, devise a certain sum of money to be devoted to the
erection and endowment of a seminary of learning in the said
county of Washington, and that by the provisions of said will
one Leonidas Love was appointed president and treasurer of
said institution, and the said seminary having been, by act of
the general assembly passed on the twentieth day of Decem-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, incorporated under the
name of the Barrick Institute, in the county of Washington,
and that by said act of incorporation David Jones, Oscar Love
and Charles Meek, their associates and successors, were ap-
pointed trustees of said Barrick Institute; and the said Leon-
idas Love, as executor of said Solomon G. Barrick, and as
treasurer aforesaid, having executed a bond in said court con-
ditioned according to law for the faithful performance of said
trust, with one William King Heiskill, William Debusk and
John W. Love as his sureties; and the said Leonidas Love, as
executor and treasurer aforesaid, having made default, and
judgment having been made and entered against his estate and
that of his sureties, by decree entered in the circuit court of
the county of Washington, at the September term, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, for the sum of forty-five hundred
and sixteen dollars and twenty-eight cents, with interest from
the first of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, subject
to a credit of seventy three dollars and ninety-seven cents, as
of the first of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and
whereas, it appears to the satisfaction of the general assembly
that the said Leonidas Love has departed this life, and that
his estate is insufficient to satisfy the whole of the said judg-
ment, and that the said William Debusk has also departed this
life, and that the estates of the other sureties are insolvent,
and that the beneficiaries of the said Barrick Institute having
memorialized the general assembly to release the estate of the
said William Debusk from the payment of the accrued interest
of said fund, upon the condition that the estate of the said
‘William Debusk, or some one for it, shall pay, or settle ina
manner satisfactory to the said trustees, the sum of twenty-
four hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-six cents,
with interest from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, and all costs and expenses incurred
by said trustees in the prosecution of the suit aforesaid:
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the trustees of the Barrick Institute are hereby authorized to
release the estate of the said William Debusk from the amount
of forty five hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-eight
cents, which was decreed by the circuit court of Washington
county, at the September term, eighteen hundred and seventy-
one, upon the condition that the personal representative of
the said William Debusk, or some person for him, shall pay
the sum of twenty-four hundred and twenty-four dollars and
twenty-six cents, that being the original amount of principal
due, with interest thereon from the fifteenth day of Septem-
ber, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and all the costs of
the said suit, and the expenses of the said board of trustees
in prosecuting the same; the said payment to be made in
money, or by bond or note to be approved by said board of
trustees.

2. When the nersenal representative of the estate of the
said William Debusk shall have paid or satisfied the said sum
of twenty-four hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-
six cents, as provided in the preceding section, then the estate
of the said William Debusk shall be and is hereby released
from all further lability as surety aforesaid, and the said
board of trustees shall not be held liable or responsible for
such amount of said decree as may be released in any settle-
ment made under and according to the provisions of this act.

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