CHAP. 225.—An ACT to provide for the payment of a én dgment
in favor of Feaac Davenport, Jr., Thomas Moore, and Constance
R. Moore against the Central lunatic asylum, entered in Hen-
rico circuit court, December 14, 1888.

Approved March 5, 1890

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the auditor of public accounts is hereby directed to
issue his warrant on the treasurer payable out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated in favor
of Isaac Davenport, junior, Thomas Moore, and Constance
Moore, for the sum of two thousand five hundred and
fifty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents, with interest on
four hundred and eighty-five dollars thereof from Janu-
ary first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; on four hun-
dred and eighty-five dollars thereof from January first,
eighteen hundred and eighty-two; on four hundred and
eighty-five dollars thereof from January first, eighteen
hundred and eighty-three, and on four hundred and eighty-
five dollars thereof from January 1st, eighteen hundred
and eighty-four, and on four hundred and five dollars,
another part thereof, from January first, eighteen hundred
and eighty-five, and on one hundred and thirty dollars
and sixty-nine cents, the residue thereof, from April
seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, until payment
thereof, and nine dollars and twenty-three cents cost, the
same being in full for a judgment of the circuit court of
Henrico against the Central lunatic asylum.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
CaP. 226.—An ACT for the relief of J. M. Fitz and D. P. Wood-
ward, late partners doing business under the name and style of
Fitz and Wood ward. !

Approved March 5, 1890.

Whereas at a court of hustings for the city of Staunton,
J.M. Fitz and D. P. Woodward, doing business as hotel
keepers (being proprietors of the “ Hale house”’), in the
city of Staunton, under the style, name, and firm of Fitz
and Woodward, were jointly indicted for selling liquor to
minors, and at the March term, eighteen hundred and
eightv-seven, of said court, were tried for said alleged
offense, and fines amounting to one hundred and seventy
dollars, exclusive of costs, were assessed against them,
which fines, with costs aggregating the sum of thirty-nine
dollars and sixteen cents, were paid by said Fitz and
Woodward over to the commonwealth in full payment and
discharge of said fines; and whereas it was proven on the
trial that said sales of liquor to minors as charged were
notmade by Fitz and Woodward, or by either of them,
bat that they were made by their bar-tender, without their
knowledge or consent, and against their express direction
repeatedly given; that said bar-tender, in fact, had been
imposed upon by youths who represented themselves to be
over the age of twenty-one years; that said Fitz and
Woodward are both honorable men, of high character, far
above any willful violation of the law; and that their
guilt in the said offense charged against them were merely
technical; therefore,

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the auditor of public accounts of this state be, and
he is hereby, authorized and instructed to refund to said
Fitz and Woodward the sum of one. hundred and seventy
dollars, the amount of the fines aforesaid imposed upon
them at the March term, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, of the court of hustings for the city of Stauiiton.

2. This act shall he in force from its passage.