Chap. 2.—A JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the accept-
ance of the direct tax to be refunded by the United States to
the State of Virginia.

Approved December 15, 1891.

A joint resolution providing for the acceptance of the
direct tax to be refunded by the United States to the state
of Virginia:

1. Resolved by the senate of Virginia (the house of del-
egates concurring), That the sum appropriated to the state
of Virginia and directed to be credited to said state by
the act of the congress of the United States, approved
March second, in eighteen hundred and ninety-one, enti-
tled ‘‘an act tocredit and pay to the several states and
territories and the District of Columbia all moneys col-
lected under the direct tax levied by the act of congress,
approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,”
is hereby accepted by the state of Virginia in full satis-
faction of all claims against the United States on account
of the levy and collection of said tax; and all the trusts
imposed by the said act of congress, approved March
second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, are in like man-
ner also hereby accepted as provided in said act; and the
governor of Virginia shall be, and he is hereby, fully au-
thorized and empowered to receive the said moneys for
the uses and purposes specified in the said: act of con-
gress; and the governor of the state is further authorized
and empowered for and in behalf of the state and also in
his own name, to sign, execute and deliver a full dis-
charge, acquittance and release to the United States, or to
its proper officers, of all claims and demands of the said
state on account of the levy and collection of the said
tax. Andall the provisions of the said act of congress,
and all the trusts therein imposed, are hereby fully ac-
cepted in so far as the state of Virginia is concerned.

2. The moneys received by the governor as aforesaid,
shall be by him deposited through the treasurer of the
state in some one or more of the banks of the state des-
ignated as state depositories, upon such terms as to the
payment of interest as he may deem advantageous, the
same to be in trust for the benefit of those persons or
inhabitants from whom such moneys were collected or
their legal representative in accordance with the provis-
ions of said act of congress.

3. This resolution shall be in force from ite passage.