Chap. 268.—An ACT for the relief of C. B. Beamer, S. J. Fisher, M. Goldberg, Ella
Morgan, L. Shere and J. W. Richardson.

Approved February 9, 1898.

Whereas it appears from the return of F. FE. Croy, commissioner of
the revenue for the city of Radford, that C. B. Beamer, M. Goldberg,
Ella Morgan, J. W. Richardson and L. Shere, have each paid to the
treasurer of said city the sum of two hundred and five dollars and fifty
cents for bar room and retail liquor licenses for the year cighteen hun-
dred and ninety-five, and that 8. J. Fisher paid one hundred and ninety-
six dollars and fifty cents for ordinary and retail liquor licenses for same
period, and that said several sums of money so paid have been turned into
the state treasury by the treasurer of said citv; and it further appearing
from a certified copy from the records of the hustings court for the said
city of Radford, that on the twenticth day of July, eighteen hundred
and ninety-five, the said licenses were revoked by an order of said court
certifying the result of a special election held in said city on the twenty-
fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, under chapter
twenty-five of the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, by which
the places of business of said parties were closed until the twenty-third
day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, when said election
was declared void by the judze of the circuit court for Montgomery county
on appeal proceedings from said hustings court, they thus losing the
benctit of their said licenses for the period of two months, or one-sixth
of the year, for which they had paid license tax: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is hereby, instructed to ‘draw his several
warrants upon the treasurer of the state in favor of C. B. Beamer, M.
Goldberg, Ella Morgan, J. W. Richardson and L. Shere, each for the
sum of thirty-four dollars and twenty-five cents, and in favor of S. J.
Fisher, for the sum of thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents, being
the amounts paid by them respectively as a license tax for the two
months during which they were deprived of the benefits of their licenses,
as in the preamble to this act set out.

2 This act shall be in force from its passage.