Chap. 2.—An ACT providing compensation to the attorney-general
for services rendered in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Approved December 23, 1876.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the sum of five hundred dollars be and is hereby appropriated,
to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to Raleigh T. Daniel, attorney-general of tho
State, for services rendered as counsel in the case of Payne
against Phillips, in the Supreme Court of the United States,
invelving the retrocession of Alexandria city and county by
the United States to the State of Virginia.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.