Chap. 308.—An ACT to authorize the court of hustings for the city of Ports-
mouth, Virginia, or the judge thereof in vacation, to destroy certain papers,
books and records filed in the case of W. J. Williams et al v. The Peoples
Bank of Portsmouth et al., recently pending in the said court. [H B 528]

Approved March 26, 1936

Whereas by a decree entered in the chancery suit of W. J. Wil-
liams and others versus The Peoples Bank of Portsmouth and others by
the court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, in the year
nineteen hundred and seven, The Peoples Bank of Portsmouth, Vir-
ginia, was placed in the hands of -a receiver, and whereas there are a
large number and quantity of papers, consisting mostly of cancelled
checks, books, deposit slips and worthless records of said defunct bank,
filed with the clerk of the said court, and whereas the cause has been
ended and there is no place where the said records may be stored or
kept in the said clerk’s office and to keep the said records it would be
necessary to pay rent for their storage, and that most of said papers are
of no value whatever and are unnecessary for the proper record of said
case; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
court of hustings for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia, or the judge
thereof in vacation, is hereby authorized, by order entered of record,
to cause to be destroyed by the proper officer of the court such of the
records, books and papers filed in the chancery cause recently pending
in said court under the style of W. J. Williams and others versus The
Peoples Bank of Portsmouth, Virginia, and others, as probably will
never again be required for use.