Chap. 230.—An ACT to authorize the Auditor of Public Accounts to
withhold for a limited time Execution on a Judgment when obtained
against the Sureties of Jasper C. Hughes, late Sheriff of Gloucester
County, and to receive the Principal and six per centum interest and
costs in Satisfaction of said Judgment.

Approved March 25, 1875.

W hereas, notice has been served upon James R. Clayton,
J. N. Stubbs, M. B. Seawell, John B. Donovan, Thomas B.
Armistead, R. N. Page, and Jobn S. Cooke, who with John
‘T. Seawell, deceased, are sureties of Jasper C. Hughes, late
sheriff of Gloucester county, that a mdtion would be made
by the auditor of public accounts, in the circuit court of the
city of Richmond, on the ninth of March, eighteen hundred
and seventy-five, for a judgmeut against them for a balance
due by the said Jasper C. Hughes, on account of the land,
property, and capitation tax for the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That upon any
judgment obtained against the said Hughes and his sureties,
the auditor of public accounts is authorized and directed to
withbold the issue of execution for six months from the
date of the said judgment, and that upon the payment within
the said six months, of the amount ascertained by any such
judgment as principal with the interest thereon at six per
centum, and the costs of the proceedings, the said sureties
of the said Hughes shall be discharged from all further lia-
bility to the commonwealth on account of said judgment.

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