Chap. 419.—An ACT to re-imburse J. P. Taylor and J. C. Hart for barn and
hay destroyed in order to capture Walter Ware who was escaping after the
murder of Sheriff W. C. Bond and Sargeant Julian F. Boyer, of Orange
county, Virginia. [S B 20]

Approved March 24, 1922.

Whereas, on the twenty-third day of October, nineteen hundred
and twenty-one, Walter Ware murdered Sheriff W. C. Bond and
Sergeant Julian F. Boyer, of Orange county, Virginia, while the
said officers were endeavoring to arrest the said Ware with warrants
charging him with violations of the prohibition and the automobile
laws of this State; and

Whereas, the following day parties of citizens organized and
acting under the authority and directions of the county and State
officials, located the said Ware in refuge in a large hay barn of the
said J. P. Taylor, filled with hay, the property of the said J. P.
Taylor and J. C. Hart; and

Whereas, after some eight or ten citizens had been shot by the
said Ware in their endeavors to capture him, those in authority
finally determined that it was necessary to set fire to the hay in
order to save further bloodshed and force the said Ware from his
place of refuge; and

Whereas, the said barn and hay was, as a result, totally and
completely destroyed ; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
be, and is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys 1m tne State
treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-one hundred
and fifteen dollars and ninety cents ($2,115.90) to re-imburse J. P.
Taylor and J. C. Hart for their loss as aforesaid; and that the
auditor of public accounts be, and he 1s hereby, directed to draw
his warrant in favor of the said J. P. Taylor and J. C. Hart for the
said sum.