Chap. 198.—An ACT for the relief of J. C. Hicks.

Approved March 15, 1902.

Whereas, the following facts appear from the certificates of the county
judge and the county treasurer of Albemarle county: That on May sev-
enth, nineteen hundred, J. C. Hicks was granted by the county court of
said county a license to sell liquor by retail in the Sam Miller district
of the said county for the year ending April thirtieth, nineteen hundred
and one, for which he paid to the said county treasurer the sum of one
hundred dollars, which sum of one hundred dollars was duly paid into
the treasury of the State of Virginia; that on the thirtieth day of June,
nineteen hundred, a local option election was held in the said district
under the provisions of the Code of Virginia, and on a canvass of the
returns of the said election held on the sixth day of July, nineteen hun.
dred, the result of the same was declared and entered of record by the
said court as being against license in said district, so that the said Hicks
was thereafter prohibited from selling liquor under his said license
although he had exercised the privilege therein granted only for the
period of two months and one week, instead of for one year, as called for
in the license: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he hereby is, instructed to draw his warrant
upon the treasurer of the State in favor of J. C. Hicks for the sum of
seventy-nine dollars and seventeen cents, being the amount paid him as
license tax, less commissions, for the nine months and three weeks
during which he was deprived of the benefit of his license, as set forth in
the preamble of this act.

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