Chap. 209.—An ACT requiring the auditor of public accounts to make a state-
ment, annually, showing an accounting of the county and city treasurers
with the state who are in arrears, and prescribing the manner in which the
same shall be made public.

Approved January 30, 1896.

Whereas during every session of the general assembly it is devel-
oped that some of the county or city treasurers are in arrears to the
state on account of collection of taxes, thereby depriving the com-
monwealth of its just dues which should be promptly turned into
her coffers; and whereas it is right and proper that the sureties of
all such treasurers, as well as the tax-payers of the state, should be
apprised of the true facts in connection therewith: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the au-
ditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby, required to have made
from the books in his office annually, at the end of the fiscal year,
commencing with the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, a statement, showing the condition of the accounts of every
county or city treasurer of the commonwealth, who is in arrears to
the state in his collections therefor, giving the year of such delin-
quency, and it shall be the duty of the said auditor to transmit,
within thirty days thereafter, a copy of such statement to the clerk
of each county or city wherein such treasurer resides or holds his
office, respectively, and it shall be the duty of every such clerk to
make a copy of the same without delay and post upon the front
door of his court-house, and place the original on file in his office,
where it may be conveniently examined by any tax-payer so desir-
ing, and he shall allow any newspaper desiring to publish the same
to make a copy of it.

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