Chap. 122.—An ACT for the protection of game in the county of
King and Queen.

Approved January 31, 1890.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall not be lawful for any person to kill or cap-
ture partridges or wild turkeys in the county of King and
Queen between the fifteenth day of February and the
fifteenth day of October of each year; nor shall it be law-
ful to kill or capture deer in the county of King and
Queen between the first day of February and the fifteenth
day of August of each year.

2. Any person violating this act shall be punished as
provided in section two thousand and eighty of the code
of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

3. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

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

CHAP. 123—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of
Botetourt county to redeem the outstanding bonds of the said
county issued in payment of its subscription to the capital stock
of the Valley railroad company, and for that purpose either to
borrow money and issue its bonds therefor, or to exchange new
bonds for the outstanding bonds.

Approved January 31, 1890.

Whereas by an act of the general assembly approved
June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, the
eounty of Botetourt was authorized to subscribe to the
capital stock of the Valley railroad company, and under
the eaid act did subscribe one hundred and five thousand
dollars thereto, and did issue its bonds in payment of the
same, redeemable in twenty years; and whereas such of
the bonds as have not been paid will mature on the first
of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and there
ig not now and will not then be money enough in the
treasury of said county to redeem the same; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of the
said county, for the purpose of redeeming said outstand-
ing bonds, to appoint an agent or agents to negotiate a
loan or loans at a rate of interest not exceeding six per
centum, and to issue bonds to secure the same for and in
the name of the said county. Said bonds may be either
registered or with coupons attached, as said board of
supervisors may prescribe, and at the time at which the
board of supervisors makes its levy for said county it shall
levy on all the lands and other subjects liable to state tax
and county levy in said county, such tax to pay the
amount of such loan or loans and the interest thereon, or
to pay the interest on the bonds of the county so issued,
and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal
thereof as said-board of supervisors may deem necessary
or proper, and from year to year may repeat such assess-
ments until the debt and interest. be fully paid; but such
levy for a year shall not exceed the interest on the whole
debt and one-twentieth of the principal thereof; and such
bonds shall be issued to run for twenty years, redeemable,
however, at the pleasure of the board of supervisors upon
their call at the office of the county treasurer of said
county.

2. Be it further enacted, that the said board of super-
visors may, in its discretion, exchange at par bonds issued
under this act for the said outstanding bonds, with such
of the holders of said outstanding bonds as may be wil-
ling to accept said new bonds in exchange therefor.

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

CuaP. 124.—An ACT to release taxes due on the parsonage of the
Presbyterian church at Covesville, in Albemarle county.

Approved January 31, 1890.

Whereas the treasurer of Albemarle county has returned
to the auditor of public accounts as purchased by the
commonwealth of Virginia for delinquent taxes for the
years ending eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen
hundred and eighty-five, eighteen hundred and eighty-six,
and eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, a tract of land
said to contain forty-one acres, charged to John N. Jones,
of which said tract a part containing eighteen and one-
fourth acres, has been owned and used as a parsonage by
the said Presbyterian church since the fourth day of June,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four; and whereas the county
court of Albemarle county did, by an order entered at ite
April term, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, apportion-
ing said delinquent taxes and levies among the owners of
the several parcels of said tract of forty-one acres, decide
that the trustees of said church should pay on the said
eighteen and one-fourth acres fifty dollars and fifty-four
cents as their just share; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the taxes on said tract of land, containing eighteen
and one-fourth acres, held and used as a parsonage by
said church, amounting to fifty dollars and fifty-four cents,
as of the ninth of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-

nine, be, and the same are hereby, released, and the audito.

of public accounts shall so endorse same against said land
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.