Chap. 468.—An ACT for the relief of J. C. Bell.

Approved February 27, 1894.

Whereas the commonwealth of Virginia became the purchaser in
October, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, of the tract of land known
as Catalfa, containing about three hundred acres, near the town of
Culpeper, of which James Withers died seized and possessed, and
on which sale was made for delinquent taxes alleged to be due and
unpaid, amounting to five hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-
four cents; and whereas Mistress E. A. Withers, the widow of said
James Withers, deceased, and Jacob I. Mosby, her son-in-law, who
occupied said Jand, paid to the collector a large portion, if not the
whole of said taxes for which said land was returned delinquent;
and whereas John C. Bell in September, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, became the purchaser of said land under decree of the
circuit court of Culpeper county in the chancery suit of Withers’
executor’s versus Withers, and so forth, without any notice of said
lien thereon for said taxes, and has paid all the purchase money for
said land: therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sai
tract of land be, and the same is hereby, released from said lier
and exonerated and discharged from all liability for said taxes, o
any part thereof.

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