Chap. 430.—An ACT for the relief of 8S. C. Williams and E. F. Hodges, of Halifax
county.

Approved March 29, 1902.

Whereas, it is represented that 8. C. Williams and E. F. Hodges pur-
chased from a commissioner of the circuit court of Halifax a tract of land
belonging to the estate of William Easley, deceased, containing four hun-
dred and thirty-six acres, in a suit in which an account of liens had been
taken by order of the court, and paid the whole purchase money therefor,
which was applied to the payment of the said liens and debts reported
in said suit; and,

Whereas, it was discovered, after the whole purchase money had been
distributed, that said lands were delinquent for the non-payment of taxes
in the name of said William Easley for the year eighteen hundred and
ninety to the amount of fifty dollars and thirty-six cents, and for the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-one to the amount of forty-three dol-
lars and fifteen cents; and that said taxes had not been entered on any
delinquent land book in the clerk’s office of the county court of said
county, and no account of the same taken by said commissioner who took
the account of liens; and that the said purchasers paid said purchase
money to the court in good faith and without any knowledge of the said
taxes, which still remain unpaid: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
tract of land so purchased by the said S. C. Williams and E. F. Hodges
be, and the same is hereby, exonerated from the payment of the said sums
of fifty dollars and thirty-six cents and forty-three dollars and fifteen
cents, the delinquent taxes respectively thereon for the years eighteen
hundred and ninety and eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

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