Chap. 11.—An ACT to provide for the Collection of the Revenue of
Lee Township, in the County of Accomac, for the year 1874.

Approved December 19, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the treas-
wer of the county of Accomac be and he is hereby author-
wel and directed to receive within sixty days from the
passage Of this act, from all persons assessed with taxes in
Lee township, the taxes due from them for the year eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, without adding the five per centum
prescribed in eases where taxes have not been paid prior to
the first day of December: provided, that the consent of the
sureties of said treasurer shall be given in person before the
judge of the county court of Accomac, in term time or va-
cation, by writing signed by such sureties, said writing to be
daly recorded by the clerk of the said county court and cer-
tified to the auditor of public accounts.

3. At the expiration of seventy days from the passage of
this act, it shall be the duty of the said treasurer to make
tpastatement of all moneys received by him on account of
taxes; which statement shall be verified by affidavit, and
shall be forwarded to the auditor of public accounts by said
treasurer; and he shall thereupon pay into the treasury the
amount shown to be due by such statement; and if he shall
fail so to pay over the same, he shall forfeit his commissions
oso much of said balance as he may fail to account for an
pay over. .

3. It shall be the duty of the tewnship collector for the
said township, at the expiration of the seventy days afore-
said, to receive from the treasurer of the said county of
Accomac, all tax bills for the year eighteen hundred and
seventy-four then unpaid, and to account for the same by
the fitteenth day of May thereafter, in the manner prescribed
in the act relating to the duties and compensation of certain
township officers, approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred
and seventy. .

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