Chap. 175.—An ACT to authorize and empower the law and equity court
of the city of Richmond, or any other court of competent jurisdiction, to
adjust and settle the accounts of Jacob Reed’s Sons against certain com-
panies of Virginia volunteers, and to order payment to Jacob Reed's Sons
under certain conditions.

Approved February 15, 1901.

Whereas the officers of the late first regiment infantry, Virginia volun-
teers, having accumulated certain funds and pledged the same for the
purchase of uniforms and equipments from Jacob Reed's sons for the
use of said regiment, consisting at that time of the field, staff, band, and
companies A, B, C, D, E, F, and G; and

Whereas the entire regiment and each of the said companies were sub-
sequently disbanded at the close of the Spanish-American war before said
uniforms and equipment were delivered, and only companies A, B, C, D,
and F have been reorganized and admitted into the Virginia volunteers
as the successors of said last-named five companies, respectively, and are
now known as companies A, B, C, D, and F of the seventieth regiment
infantry, Virginia volunteers; and

Whereas companies E and G have not been and will not be reorganized,
and the uniforms and equipments contracted for have been furnished by
Jacob Reed’s sons to the said companies which have reorganized and to
certain of the field, staff, and band of the said seventieth regiment ; there-
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the law and
equity court of the city of Richmond, in which a chancery suit between
said parties is pending (or any other court of competent jurisdiction),
be, and it is, authorized and empowered to adjust the account between
the said Jacob Reed’s sons and the said reorganized companies and the
said field, staff and band, and to pay over the whole of the fund pledged
by the said first regiment, together with the accretions to said funds to
Jacob Reed’s sons for and on account of the said reorganized companies
and the field, staff and band, upon the petition of the commandant of
said seventieth regiment and the commandants of the said reorganized
companies, or upon satisfactory evidence that said uniforms and equip-
ments have been furnished.