Chap. 116.—An ACT for the relief of W. T. Edwards, inspector of
oysters for the city of Portsmouth.

Approved May 2, 1887.

Whereas it appears from evidence produced before the gen-
eral assembly that William T. Edwards, inspector of oysters
for the city of Portsmouth, was indebted to the commonwealth
-of Virginia in the sum of one hundred and seventy dollars and

nineteen cents, collections for the quarter ending February
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; and whoreas
it further appears from evidence.that the said sum of one bun-
dred and seventy dollars and nineteen cents was deposited by
the said W. T. Edwards in the banking house of Bain and
Brothers, bankers of said city, at the time of the failure of
said bank, and it appearing that the said Kdwards had sent
his check for the said one hundred and seventy dollars and
nineteen cents upon the banking house of Bain Brothers some
days before the failure of said bank to the auditor, and that
the auditor had returned it to him upon the grounds that the
said BKdwards should, either in person or through an agent,
pay in money and not in a check.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public ACCOUNLS IS hereby authorized, upon the
receipt from the said W. T. fdwards of his bank book or cer-
tificate of deposit, to give him credit for the sum of one bun-
dred and seventy dollars and nineteen cents, as if’ the same
had been paid at the time of the failure of the said bank ; and
the suid auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized to
collect for the commonwealth such dividends as may bo paid
by the trustees or assignees of said banking house.

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