Chap. 219.—-An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mecklenburg
county to issue a duplicate bond.

Approved March 15, 1904.

Whereas, by an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Atlantic and
Danville Narrow Gauge Railroad Company,” approved April the twenty-
first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the board of supervisors of the
county of Mecklenburg were authorized and empowered to subscribe to
the capital stock of said company, and to issue bonds for the payment
thereof, upon conditions therein set forth; and,

Whereas, one of the said bonds issued by an order entered by said
board of supervisors on the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, and being designated as bond number thirty-three, Meck-
lenburg county railroad bond, due and payable September the first, nine-
teen hundred and eleven, with interest coupons thereto attached, was
owned and held by the Peninsula bank of Williamsburg, Virginia, prior
to May, nineteen hundred; and, |

Whereas, by a robbery which occurred at the banking-house of said
bank on or about the twenty-fourth day of May, nineteen hundred, the
said bond was destroyed, burned or taken away, and is still lost or de-
stroyed, which loss or destruction has prevented said bank from collect-
ing the interest accruing on said bond; and,

Whereas, the board of supervisors of said Mecklenburg county are
unwilling and do not feel authorized to issue a duplicate of said bond,
except through and by the consent of the general assembly; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors of Mecklenburg county be, and they are hereby,
authorized, in their discretion, to issue a duplicate of said Mecklenburg
county railroad bond, number thirty-three, together with the unpaid
interest coupons thereto attached, and to deliver same to the said the
Peninsula bank, which said duplicate bond amd coupons shall have the
same force and effect as the original: provided, however, that before
the said duplicate bond and coupons attached shall be issued and de-
livered, the said the Peninsula bank, or some one for it, shall execute
bond in the penalty of two thousand dollars, with security to be ap-
proved by said board of supervisors, payable to the Commonwealth of
Virginia, to indemnify and save harmless the said board of supervisors
from any and all loss which may result from the issuing of such dupli-
cate, should said original bond be discovered in the hands of an inno-
cent holder.