Chap. 72.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February
10, 1876, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 27,
1876, entitled an act for the relief of township creditors.

Approved February 6, 1877.

Whereas it is represented to the general assembly, That
some Of the late township boards in this state failed to pro-
vide for the payment of the debts ot their respective town-
ships before the first of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five, when the powers of the said boards ceased, and there
being now no legal mode of providing for the same; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of the act approved February tenth, eighteen
handred and seventy-six, as amended by an act approved
March the twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-
six, and sections two, three, four and five, entitled au act for
the relief of township creditors, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of any
county of this commonwealth to provide for the payment of
any outstanding debts against any of the late townships in
such county, created prior to July first, eighteen hundred
and seventy-five, by levying on the persons and property of
the magisterial districts into which such townships bave been
changed, a sufficient amount for that purpose, and for defray-
ing all costs and expenses of collecting and paying out the
same, which levy shall be made in accordance with the late
law in regard to townsbip levies, as far as the same is con-
sistent with this act. And said board of supervisors shall
have all the rights and remedies against delinquent township
collectors, or other delinquent township officers and their
sureties, for township levies or taxes received by them, that
was given the townsbip board by the forty-seventh chapter
of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, or which
said board may have had by any of the laws in force at the
time of the adoption of the amendment to the constitution
in reference to county organization; which proceeding may
be had in the name of the board of supervisors, or of the
commonwealth of Virginia, at the relation of the board of
the supervisors, for the benefit of the magisterial district in-
terested therein. The amount recovered in any such pro-
ceedings sball be applied by the board of supervisors to the
payment of any outstanding debts, if any, of any such town-
ship or magisterial district, and the remainder, if any, ap-
plied by said board for the benefit of said district, as in their
discretion may seem best.

2. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer to collect
such levy and pay out the same upon the outstanding war-

rants of the late township boards; or where such warrants
have not been issued to the township creditors, then upon the
warrants of the board of supervisors drawn for that purpose,
when approved as hereinafter provided. But all warrants
drawn by the board of supervisors of any county for the
payment of township debts, shall designate upon their faces
the names of the respective townships whose debts they are
intended to pay. .

3. The treasurer shall kecp a separate account of the levies
collected and paid out under this act, and shall report the
same to the board of supervisors, with the vouchers for such

ayments, at, the time of his annual settlement; and also a
ist of delinquents which shall be examined by the board and
allowed, as far as the same may appear correct. He shall be
entitled to the same commission for his services under this
act as for the collection and payment of the county levies,
and shall have all the remedies for the collection of the levies
herein provided for, as are given him by law for the collection
of county levics. But all claims allowed by the board of
supervisors under this act shall be subject to approval by the
county court, and shall not be paid until such approval is
endorsed on the warrant for said claims and signed by the
judge of said court.

4. If any board of supervisors fail to do any of the things
required by this act, upon application of any person interested,
the county court may by mandamus compel such board to do
such act.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage, and remain
in force until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
seventy-eight.