Chap. 251.—An ACT for the Relief of John W. Plunket, late Collec-
tor of Blacksburg Township, in the County of Montgomery.

Approved March 29, 1876.

Whereas there was placed by competent authority in the
hands of John W. Piunket, collector of Blacksburg township,
in the county of Montgomery, certain tickets for taxes, both
county and state; and whereas the said John W. Plunket
has accounted to the treasurer of said county for all the
tickets placed in the hands of the said John W. Plunket as
collector aforesaid, and his term of office having expired with
many of said tickets in his hands uncollected; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That authority is hereby given to the said John W. Plunket,
collector as aforesaid, to collect the amount due upon said
tickets, and he shall have the same power of distress as
treasurers and collectors possessed at the time such tickets
were placed in his hands: provided however, that no such
tickets of longer standing than five years shall be collected
by distress or levy: and provided further, that-the property
exempt from levy or distress under the thirty-second and
thirty-third sections of chapter forty-nine of the Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, shall be exempt from
the operations of this act.

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