Chap. 332.—An ACT for the relief of the Sureties of John R. Pharr,
late Sheriff of Alleghany County.

Approved April 30, 1874.

Whereas Jobn R. Pharr was duly elected and qualified
sheriff of Alleghany county for two successive terms, begin-
ning on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and six-
ty-six, and ending on the thirty-first day of December, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-nine; and whereas he was removed
from his office by military authority before the expiration of
his said last term of office; and whereas he became a defaulter
to the state for taxes, to the county of Alleghany for levies,
to the clerk and other county and court officers, and to the
officers of other counties for fge bills placed in his hands for
collection as sheriff as aforesaid; and whereas Samuel Car-
penter, Lee Persinger, and others, bis sureties in his sheriff's

onds, have paid off and discharged all of his said debts and
defalcations as sheriff as aforesaid; and whereas there still
remains uncollected in the hands of the said Pharr a consid-
erable amount of solvent tax tickets, county levies and fee
bills, which, by lapse of time, cannot be distrained for and
collected; therefore

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it sball be lawful for the said John R. Pharr to place all such
tax tickets, county levies and fee bills into the hands of the
sheriff of Alleghany county, to be collected by the said she-
riff in like manner and by like process as the taxes, levies
and fee bills of the present year are collected, and he shall

ay over the proceeds to the securities of the said John R.
harr.

2. This act shall be in force from the date of its passage,
and remain in force for twelve months from that date.