Chap. 287.—An ACT to compensate B. F.*Bland for legal services
rendered the commonwealth.

Approved March 1, 1886.

Whereas in the month of February, eighteen hundred and
eighty-five, B. F. Bland, attorney-at-law, was employed by his
excellency William E. Cameron, then governor of Virginia, at
the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to appear before the
county court of Mathews county, and to assist the common-
wealth’s attorney of said county in the prosecution of five
vessels, and their crews, captured by the armed steamer Chesa-
peake, and indicted in said court for criminal violations of the
oyster law of this state; and whereas the said B. F. Bland has
never been paid any portion of said fee for the legal services
rendered by him in the said prosecutions: therefore

. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to
draw his warrant upon the treasury, in favor of said B. F. Bland,
for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, payable out of
any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, in full
payment for the services above recited.

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