Chap. 108.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 2184, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia, relating to the issuance of duplicate warrants under certain cir-

cumstances. [H 176]
Approved March 1, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section twenty-one hundred eighty-four, as amended, of
the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 2184. Issuance of duplicate warrants——(a) Upon satis-
factory proof being presented to the comptroller or to the State Treasurer
that any warrant heretofore or hereafter drawn by either the comptroller
or the State Treasurer or by a predecessor upon the treasury of the Com-
monwealth has been lost or destroyed before having been paid, it shall
be lawful for the comptroller or State Treasurer who issued or from
whose office was issued the original warrant to issue a duplicate therefor,
upon a bond being executed, with such security as is approved by him,
payable to the Commonwealth, in the penalty of double the amount of
the warrant and conditioned to save harmless the Commonwealth from
any loss occasioned by the issuing of the duplicate warrant; provided
that no duplicate shall be issued within thirty days of the issuing of the
original warrant and that every duplicate warrant shall show upon its
face that it is a duplicate.

(b) But if the original warrant was issued to any eleemosynary or
educational institution of the State for money appropriated to the in-
stitution, or to the treasurer of any county or city in the State for money
apportioned to it out of the school fund and to be disbursed by the treas-
urer in payment of school warrants, or to be issued to any district school
board of any county for money to be disbursed by the board in payment
and settlement of any claims lawfully contracted in the operation of the
public schools in the district, or in the construction of graded school
buildings, or to the treasurer of any county or city in the State for money
apportioned to it from the gas tax, and such warrant being lost or de-
stroyed without having been paid, the comptroller or State Treasurer
who issued, or from whose office the original warrant was issued, or if
issued by his predecessor, shall issue a duplicate warrant therefor, show-
ing upon its face that it is a duplicate, within thirty days from the date
of issuing the original warrant, upon satisfactory proof of the loss or de-
struction of the original warrant, and no indemnifying bond shall be re-
quired.

(c) In any case in which a duplicate warrant is issued the comp-
troller or State Treasurer issuing it shall give written notice to the bank
at which the warrant is payable that a duplicate warrant has been issued,
giving the dates of both the original and duplicate, the amount of the
warrant and to whom or to whose order it is payable, and notifying the
bank not to pay the original warrant if presented, a copy of which notice
shall be filed in the office of the comptroller or the State Treasurer who
issued the duplicate warrant.