Chap. 110.—An ACT for the relief of Charles W. McClaugherty, late
sheriff of Giles county.

Approved November 25, 1884.

Whereas it appears to the satisfaction of the general as-
sembly that Charles W. McClaugherty was, by an order of
the county court of Giles county, on the day of ;
in the year eighteen hundred and seventy, appointed sheriff
of the said county, with Reuben T. Watts, George H. Walker,
George H. Peeks, William H. H. Brown, and L. McK. Woole-
vines, as his sureties, and that the said Reuben T. Watts and
George H. Walker were to be his deputies, and as such, quali-
fied according to law; and it further appearing that whilst
the said Charles W. McClaugherty was so appointed sheriff,
and executed a bond as aforesaid, yet at the time of the said
appointment it was understood that the said Reuben T. Watts
and George H. Walker were to be the deputies of the said
Charles W. McClaugherty, and as such were to do and per-
form all the duties of the said office as sheriff, including the
collection of the state revenue; and whereas the said deputies
did collect the said revenue and failed to pay over the same in
full to the state, and a judgment was recovered in the circuit
court of the city of Richmond on the twenty-second day of
November, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for the sum of
one thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-
two cents, with interest at the rate of twelve per centum per
annum on one hundred and two dollars and twenty-niue cents,
part thereof from the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one; and on ten dollars, another part thereof,
from the eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-
one; and on one thousand six hundred and forty dollars and
forty-three cents, the residue from the eleventh day of August,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, until paid; also for two
hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty cents for damages
thereon, according to law, and eleven dollars and ninety-four
cents costs; to be credited by one hundred and thirty-nine
dollars, paid twenty-seventh March, eighteen hundred and
seventy-five; and whereas it further appearing that a con-
siderable amount of said judgment might have been made
out of the said Reuben T. Watts and George H. Walker, or
their estates, the parties really in default, after the recovery
of the judgment aforesaid; and whereas it further appears
that the said Reuben T. Watts and George H. Walker have
departed this life insolvent, and that the other sureties upon
the said bond are likewise dead or insolvent, and that conse-
quently ‘whatever may be realized by the state will have to
be paid by the said Charles W. McClaugherty, as to whom no
negligence or misconduct has been shown, and whose estate
it is alleged is not sufficient to pay the said judgment, interest,
damages and costs; therefore,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the said Charles W. McClaugherty be and is hereby relieved
from the payment of the damages adjudged against him in
said cases, to-wit: the sum:of two hundred and seventy-six
dollars and forty cents, and the interest above six per centum
per annum, and the auditor of public accounts is hereby
directed to settle with the said Charles W. Claugherty, and
receive of him the sum of one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two dollars and seventy-two cents, with interest at the
rate of six per centum per annum upon the sums, and from
the times set out in the said judgment until payment, and
the eleven dollars and ninety-four cents costs embraced in said
judgment, and such other costs as have legally accrued since,
including legal commissions upon the amount, which shall be
paid in lawful money of the United States, after deducting
the credit of one hundred and thirty-nine dollars, endorsed
upon said judgment, as paid the twenty-seventh day of March,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five; the payment of which by
the said Charles W. McClaugherty shall be a full discharge
and satisfaction of the said judgment.

2. This act shall take effect from its passage.