CHAP. 237.—An ACT for relief of R. W. Patton. (S. B. 459.)
Approved March 24, 1914.

Whereas, R. W. Patton, on the sixteenth day of June, eighteen .
hundred and ninety-eight, obtained from J. Hoge Tyler, then gover- .
nor of Virginia, the sum of one thousand dollars, which amount.
was paid out of the governor’s contingent fund, and was used by .
said Patton to buy medicine and other supplies for the men of the
second Virginia regiment, then stationed at Jacksonville, Florida;
and,

Whereas, the said R. W. Patton, on the first day of September, .
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, paid the sum of three hundred .
and sixty-five dollars, and on the eleventh day of January, nineteen
hundred, paid the further sum of one hundred and twenty-five
dollars, both of which amounts were placed to the credit of the con-
tingent fund; and,

Whereas, the amounts so paid should be returned to R. W. Pat-
ton, and the said R. W. Patton released from further liability on
account of said note; since the State of Virginia received the benefit
of the amount of one thousand dollars turned over to said R. W.
Patton.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts be directed to draw his warrant on
the treasurer of the State of Virginia, payable to the said R. W.
Patton, for the sum of four hundred and ninety dollars, and the
sum of four hundred and ninety dollars is hereby appropriated out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the
purpose of paying such sum.

Be it enacted further, that the State of Virginia release from
further liability on said note R. W. Patton, and that the same be
returned to him.