Chap. 195.—An ACT to pay Henry R. Pollard, Attorney for Archi-
bald Adie, Marion Dawson, and John W. Wright, Sheriff and Ad-
ministrator of Helen Lennox, deceased, the amount of a Judgment
of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Approved March 20, 1875.

Whereas, by virtue of a decree of the circuit court of Han-
over county, entered on the sixth day of October, eighteen
hundred and sixty, the estate of James Adie, decoased, was
decreed to have cscheated to the commonwealth, and the
proceeds of said estate, amounting to six thousand and sixty-
two dollars and thirty-three cents, having been paid into the
treasury of the commonwealth, for the benefit of the litorary
fund; and whereas, Archibald Adie, Marion Dawson, the
widow of Thomas Dawson, deceased, who was Marion Adie,
John W. Wright, sheriff and administrator of Helen Lennox,
deceased, who was Helen Adie, James Lennox, John Len-
nox, William Gow, and Isabel, his wife, who waselsabel Len-
nox, having proved themselves, in the unanimous opinion of
the supreme court of appeals of this state, to be the next of
kin and only heirs at law of said James Adie, deceased, and
the supreme court of appeals having decreed and ordered
that the said heirs are entitled to receive from the common-
wealth of Virginia, the sum of six thousand and sixty-two
dollars and thirty-three cents, the amount of the estate of
James Adie, deceased, decreed to have escheated to the com-
monwealth, and in the following proportions: To Archibald
Adie, a brother of said James, deceased, one-third; to Marion
Dawson, a sister of said James, deceased, one-third; and to
John W. Wright, sheriff and administrator of Helen Lennox,
deceased, who was another sister of said James, deceused,
for her children above named, the remaining one-third part,
to be paid to said parties respectively or their counsel; there-
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the genergl assembly of Virginia, That
the second auditor be and is hereby required to issue his war-
rant on the treasurer, payable to Henry R. Pollard, attorney
for Archibald Adie, Marion Dawson, and John W. Wright,
sheriff and administrator of Helen Lennox, deceased, for six
thousand and sixty-two dollars and thirty-three cents, to be
paid out of the literary fund.

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