Chap. 279.—JOINT RESOLUTION to empower the Superintendent
of the Penitentiary to deliver a convict to the sheriff of Culpeper
county, fur a specified purpose.

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Approved March 4, 1884.

Whereas, John Johnson is now confined in the state peni-
tentiary, undergoing a term of imprisonment, a conviction of
grand larceny before the county court of Culpeper, and has
lately confessed that on about the day of August, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-two, he robbed Benjamin M.
Yancey, of the sum of about sixteen hundred dollars in cur-
rency, and has hid the same in a secret hiding place in the
county of Orange, and is now willing to deliver the same to
the owner thereof; therefore, be it

Resolved (the house of delegates concurring), That Wil-
liam R. Terry, the superintendent of the Virginia peni-
tentiary, be authorized and empowered to deliver unto P.
Pullman, the sheriff of Culpeper county, the said John John-
son, to be by him taken to a place in the said county of
Orange, at the cost and expense of the said Benjamin M.
Yancey, and returned to the custody of the said superinten-
dent, at the like cost of said Yancey, within six days from the
day the said convict is delivered unto the said sheriff.