CHAP. 269.—An ACT for the relief of Ferman P. Sweet from the
payment of a fine of two hundred and sixty dollars, imposed
upon him by county court of Washington county.

Approved February 16, 1892.

Whereas on the twenty-seventh day of June, eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven, F. P. Sweet was indicted and
tried for the crime of Jewd and lascivious cohabitation,
and was convicted of said offence, as appears by a copy of
the record of said court filed with the petition in the cir-
cuit court of Washington county, and was fined the sum
of two hundred and sixty dollars; and it further appear-
ing that the said F. P. Sweet is a very old, infirm man,
over sixty-one years of age, and is hopelessly insolvent,
and from the petition, evidence, and opinion of the judge
of the circuit court for Washington county,Virginia, made
pursuant to section seven hundred and thirty-eight of the
code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and sections
following it, relative to the relief from fines, and so forth,
that this is a proper case for relief under and pursuant to
said statute in such cases provided; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the said Ferman P. Sweet be, and is hereby, exone-
rated and relieved from the payment of the said fine of
two hundred and sixty dollars, adjudged against him by
the county court of Washington county, Virginia, on the
twenty-seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, in the case of the commonwealth against F. P.
Sweet upon an indictment for lewd and lascivious cohab-
itation with one Mary Neely; and the clerk of the county
court of Washington county, Virginia, is hereby author-
ized and directed to mark said judgment and fine satisfied
in full as to said fine.

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