CHAP. 332.—An ACT to provide for the payment of money into the
treasury by check or certificate of deposit.

Approved March 1, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be lawful for any public officer or other person having
money to pay into the treasury to make such payment by de-
livery to the auditor of public accounts a certificate of deposit,
or a certified check drawn, or endorsed payable to the treasu-
rer of Virginia, or his order, on some bank in this state, or in
the cities of Baltimore and New York, or a draft drawn by
some bank in this state, or in the cities of Baltimore or New
York, on some other bank of this state, or of the cities of Bal-
timore and New York. Immediately upon the receipt of any
such certificate of deposit, check or draft, the auditor shall
cause the amount of the same, with a sufficient description
thereof, to be entered to the credit of the person indebted, and
should any check, draft, or certificate of deposit not be paid
on presentation, the amount thereof, with all costs, shall be
charged to the person to whose credit it was placed, and his
liability and that of his sureties, except the additional liability
for costs, shall be as if he had never offered any such check,
draft, or certificate of deposit.

2. Upon the receipt of every such certificate of deposit, check
or draft, the auditor of public accounts shall forthwith enter
the same upon a book kept for that purpose, with sufficient
description thereof, and shall immediately deliver the same to
the treasurer of the state, and shall take his receipt therefor in
the said book. . |

3. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to keep an exact ac-
count of “every such certificate of deposit, check and draft re-
ceived by him from the auditor of public accounts, and he shall
forthwith cause the same to be placed to the credit of the com-
monwealth, in some public depository, and forward for collec-
tion. A settlement shall be had at least once in every fifteen
days between the auditor and treasurer, which shall show the
amount collected upon these checks, drafts or certificates of
deposit; and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on the book
kept by him as aforesaid with all moneys shown, by the pass-
books of the treasurer kept with the state depositories, to have
been collected on the said checks, drafts and certificates of de-
posit; but should any such check, draft or certificate of deposit
not have been paid on presentation, the treasurer shall imme-
diately notify the auditor of public accounts thereof, and he
shall proceed to collect the amount from the person depositing
the same.

4. It shall not be lawful for the treasurer of the state to re-
ceive any such checks, drafts or certificates of deposit from any
other person than the auditor of public accounts, nor shall he
have authority to collect any money on such check, draft or
certificate of deposit; but the same shall in every case be by
him properly endorsed and deposited as aforesaid in some
state depository for collection for the credit of the common-
wealth; nor shall it be lawful for the auditor or any of his em-
ployees to receive on account of public dues any money or
any check, draft or certificate of deposit, drawn or endorsed
payable, otherwise than to the treasurer of the state.

5. The commonwealth shall not be liable, however, for any
loss resulting from lack of diligence on the part of any bank in
forwarding, or in failing to collect, any such check, draft or
certificate of deposit, or for the loss of any such check, draft
or certificate of deposit in transmission through the mails or
otherwise.

6. Immediately upon the passage of this act the auditor of
public accounts shall transmit to every person authorized by
law to collect money for the state a copy of this act. Here-
after all blanks issued to such persons shall contain a statement
of the method by which money may be paid in the treasury
by check, draft or certificate of deposit.

7. Nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with
the payment of money into the treasury under section seven,
chapter forty-three, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three; and all moneys paid in under this act shall be disbursed
only in the manner, provided for the disbursement of moneys
paid in under the said section. .

8. This act shall be in force from and after April first, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-six.