Chap. 369.—An ACT to provide for the relief of the family of S. M. Watts,
a special prohibition officer, killed while in the dicharge of his duty as
such. [H B 305]

Approved March 24, 1930

Whereas, Mister S. M. Watts, a special prohibition officer of the
State of Virginia, located at Buena Vista, was shot and killed while
capturing a still in the mountains near Buena Vista, in Rockbridge
county, on the seventeenth day of August, nineteen hundred and
twenty-seven; and,

Whereas, the said S. M. Watts was not paid any salary by the
State, and, therefore his family does not draw any compensation from
the State, and is in need of financial assistance, said family consisting
of a wife and three small children; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That financial
there be, and is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the State
treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars.
to compensate the family of the said S. M. Watts for their loss, as
aforesaid; and that the comptroller be, and he is hereby, directed t
draw warrant upon said treasury, in favor of the widow of the sai
S. M. Watts.