Chap. 141.—An ACT to confirm the authority given the auditor of public
accounts to compromise, adjust, and settle the claims and demands of the
commonwealth of Virginia against the estate of Indiana Fletcher Wil-
liams, late of Amherst county.

Approved February 14, 1901.

Whereas Tndiana Fletcher Williams, late of Amherst county, did, by
her last will and testament, devise and bequeath a munificent sum for
the establishment of a female seminary in the county of Amherst, to
be known as “Sweetbriar institute”; and

Whereas by the sixth section of an act approved February ninth, nine-
teen hundred and one, entitled “an act to incorporate the Sweetbriar
institute, in the county of Amherst, Virginia.” authority was given the
auditor of publie accounts for and on behalf of the state of Virginia
to compromise, adjust and settle any and all claims and demands of the
conmmonwealth against the estate of the said Indiana Fletcher Wil-
liams, subject to the approval of the cireuit court of Amherst county or
the judge thereof in vacation; and

Whereas a doubt has been suggested whether or not it was necessary
to the vatidity of that portion of the aforesaid sixth section of the act
aforesaid herein recited that the vote of cach house of the general
issembly should be determined by the aves and noes, and the names of
the members voting for and against the same should be entered on the
journals of the respective houses.

, Now, therefore, in order to remove any question which might be
raised in the premises,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
wuthority so given to the auditor of public accounts as aforesaid to
compromise, adjust and settle any and all claims and demands of the
commonwealth against the estate of the said Indiana Fletcher Wilhams
he, and the same is, hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed.

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