Chap. 819.—An ACT for the benefit of W. B. Kilburn, of Wise county. —

Approved March 8, 1894.

Whereas Frank Stansberry, William Allen and William Frazie
with others, did, in the night of July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundre

and ninaty_twnan hraak intn tha atnrahnnan af OO FF BRlanarww in th
county of Wise, and blow open the safe and burglarize the store of
said Flanary, and afterwards the said Stansberry, Allen and Frazier
did flee from the state of Virginia and escape into the state of North
Carolina; and

Whereas W. B. Kilburn, of the county of Wise, being commis-
sioned by a justice of said county as special agent for that purpose,
pursued said parties into the state of North Carolina and captured
them and delivered them into the custody of the jailer of Wise
county, and they were subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced
for said crime, and are now serving out said sentences in the peni-
tentiary of this state; and

Whereas in said undertaking said Kilburn did, out of his own
money, expend for necessary traveling and incidental expenses, in-
curred outside of the state of Virginia, the sum of seventy-eight dol-
lars and seventeen cents, for which he has never been reimbursed :
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized and di-
rected to draw his warrant for the benefit of said W. B. Kilburn for
the sum of seventy-eight dollars and seventeen cents, payable out of
the public treasury.

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