CHaP. 26.—An ACT to refund money improperly collected from th
Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company, Incorporated, and pai
into the treasury of the State. (S. B.

Approved February 7, 1916.

Whereas, the commissioner of the revenue for Clear For!
district of Tazewell county, Virginia, charged the Pocahonta:
Consolidated Collieries Company, Incorporated, with an income
of one hundred thousand dollars for each of the years of nine-
teen hundred and eight, nineteen hundred and nine, nineteen
hundred and ten, nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hun-
dred and twelve, and extended a State tax thereon of one thou-
sand dollars for each of said years; and whereas said charges
were unauthorized by law and without legal authority; and
whereas, said Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company, In-
corporated, paid said charges amounting to five thousand dol-
lars ($5,000) when presented to it along with its legally as-
sessed taxes, and said money was paid into the treasury of the
State; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to issue his warrant on the treasurer of Virginia
in favor of Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company, Incor-
porated, for the sum of five thousand dollars, payable out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full set-
tlement of the claims of said company for said money improp-
erly collected.