Chap. 194.—An ACT for relief of R. F. Ragland.

Approved March 14, 1902.

Whereas, on the twentieth day of November, nineteen hundred and one,
while confined in jail of the city of Petersburg upon a charge of house-
breaking in Chesterficld county, one Henry Battle effected his escape from
said jail by scaling the walls of the same, and remained at large for sev-
eral months; and,

Whereas, the said Henry Battle was afterwards arrested and detained
in Tarboro, North Carolina, through the instrumentality of R. F. Rag-
land, chief of police of the said city of Petersburg, and was brought by
said R. F. Ragland to the said county of Chesterfield and delivered over
to the authorities of said county, without a requisition, to be tried for
the felony with which he was charged ; and,

Whereas, the said Henry Battle was duly tried, convicted, and sen-
tenced to a term of ten years in the State penitentiary, where he is now
serving his term; and,

Whereas, the said R. F. Ragland, in bringing the said Henry Battle to
trial, expended the sum of twenty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents,
which said expenditure was duly approved by the judge of the hustings
court of the said city of Petersburg with a view of having the same paid
out of the contingent fund allowed to the governor of the Commonwealth ;
and,

Whereas, it is now ascertained that no part of the said fund is available
for the purpose: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is hereby, instructed to draw his warrant
on the treasurer for the sum of fWenty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents,
payable to the order of R. F. Ragland, chief of police of the city of Peters-
burg, to reimburse him for his outlay in and about the arrest and con-
viction of the said Henry Battle, and to deliver the said warrant to the
said R. F. Ragland.

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