Chap. 146.—An ACT to pay to Waller R. Staples and John W. Daniel,
for professional services rendered the state in the litigation involving
the validity of the congressional apportionment act.

Approved November 27, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts be and he is authorized and
directed to draw his warrant upon the treasurer for three
hundred dollars, payable out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, in favorof Waller R. Staples and
John W. Daniel, Esquires, counsellors-at-law, in payment for
their services rendered to the state in the matter of the liti-
gation lately decided in the supreme court of appeals, involv-
ing the validity of the act for the apportionment of repre-
sentation of this state in the congress of the United States,
in force February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
eighty sour. |

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