Chap. 263.—An ACT to provide for the Publication of the Unpublished
Decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals, prepared by Peachy R.
Grattan, Esq., late Reporter of said Court.

Approved July 11, 1870.

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
one thousand copies of the decisions made by the supreme
court of appeals at the October term, eighteen hundred ar@
sixty-eight, and the January term, eighteen hundred and sixty-
nine, of that court, and which were directed to be reported
by the judges; such of the decisions made by the military
court of appeals, and such of the decisions made at the spring
term of the supreme court of appeals of the present year,
which the judges of the supreme court of appeals may direct
to be re orted, which have been or are being prepared by
Peachy R. Grattan, the late reporter of the supreme court of
appeals, shall be published, in the same mode and in the same
style as is provided by law for the publication of the reports
of the said court; and the said Peachy R. Grattan shall pre-
pare the same for publication, and shall examine and correct
the proof-sheets, in the manner prescribed in chapter one hun-
dred and sixty-six of the Code, edition of 1860.

2. For preparing the said reports for publication, and per-
forming the service prescribed in the preceding section, there
shall be paid out of the treasury to the said Peachy R. Grat-
tan the sum of one thousand dollars; one-half thereof upon
the passage of this act, and the other half thereof when the
work is completed.

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