CHAP. 430.—An ACT for the relief of the sureties of L. L. Deakins,
late treasurer of Greensville county.

Approved March 6, 1886.

Whereas it appears several judgments have been entered by
the circuit court of the city of Richmond in favor of the com-
monwealth against L. L. Deakins, treasurer of Greensville
county, and W. F. Hunt, W. H. Walton, C. F. Lifsey, W. M.
Powell, and other sureties on his official bond for the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as appears from the records
of the clerk’s office of the circuit court of the city of Rich-
mond; and whereas the said indebtedness of the said treasurer
will have to be entirely discharged by the sureties on his official
bond, executed by him in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-
nine; and whereas the said notice was not given the said sure-
ties for the year above-mentioned, as is contemplated by section
thirty-one, chapter sixty, of the Acts of Assembly, eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight and seventy-nine, whereby they
might have shielded themselves from such loss; and whereas
the said treasurer has become totally insolvent, leaving the
burden upon the said sureties; and whereas it appears that va-
rious tickets for taxes and levies, bothestate and county, for
the year above-mentioned, are in the hands of the said L. L.
Deakins. treasurer, which are past due and uncollected; there-
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
authority is hereby given to the said L. L. Deakins and his
deputies to collect the amount due upon said tickets for taxes
and levies; and they shall have the same powers of levy and
distress for the same that the treasurer now possesses under
the present revenue laws; and the powers be extended for one
year from the passage of this bill; and the amount so collected
from the unpaid tax accounts which are now in the hands of
the said L. L. Deakins, shall be applied as a credit on the judg-
ments aforesaid. .

2. That when W, F. Hunt, W. H. Walton, C. L. Lifsey,
W. M. Powell, or any of the said sureties of the said treasurer,
or any or either of them, by reason of the liability of the said
sureties on the said bond, shall proceed to settle the same, then
the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and di-
rected to accept from the sureties as aforesaid, or any or either
of them, the bonds of the state, with al] unpaid coupons at-
tached, issued under act approved | February fourteenth, eight-
een hundred and eighty two, at their face value, in full settle-
ment and discharge of the said balance which shall be ascer-
tained to be due by the said treasurer, after crediting the said
judgments with any insolvents and delinquents returned in the
time prescribed by law, which may not have been allowed as a
credit on said judgments; and the interest shall be computed
on the said several sums of money due from the said L. L.
Deakins, treasurer as aforesaid, at the rate of six per centum
per annum from the respective periods at the time which they
should have been regularly accounted for and paid by the said
treasurer.

3. That no execution shall issue upon the said judgments
until after the expiration of one year from the date of the pas-
sage of this bill; but the said L. L. Deakins shall not be re-
leased from the payment of the difference between the amounts
due by him and the market value of the bonds which may be
paid by the sureties under the provisions of this act.

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