Chap. 769.—An ACT to provide for the payment out of the treasury for losse:
sustained by destruction of property and expenses incurred to prevent the
spread of small-pox from an epidemic of that disease prevalent in the In
dian reservation of the Pamunkey tribe of Indians.

Approved March 4, 1896.

Whereas an epidemic of small-pox became prevalent in the winte:
of eighteen hundred and ninety-four and ninety-five in the Indiar
reservation of Pamunkey tribe, located near White House, on botl
sides of the Southern railway, in the county of King William, whick
threatened to become widely spread in the state; and whereas afte:
consultation between the governor of the commonwealth and H. I
Lewis, commonwealth’s attorney for King William county, vigorou:
efforts were determined upon to stamp out and prevent the furthe:
spread of the disease, which necessarily caused the destruction o:
property belonging to said Indians and incurred expenses for sup
plies and the hire of guards and nurses; and

Whereas the pecuniary condition of said Indians is utterly inade
quate to sustain said losses and pay said expenses: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the au
ditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby, required to issue hit
warrants on the treasurer for the payment of the following sums
To Dr. J. R. Lewis, six hundred dollars for medial attendance; t:
Dr. L. Edwards, fifty dollars for medical attendance; to C. 8. Brad
by, five dollars for burying bodies; to C. S. Bradby, thirty-nine
dollars for services rendered as guard; to D. F. Coor, five dollars fo:
services rendered as guard; to the West Point telephone line, fo
telephone messages, fifteen dollars; to Clementine Langston, thirty
five dollars for services rendered as nurse; to E. R. Allman, forty
dollars for services rendered as nurse; to Jennietta Collins, ten dol
lars and fifty cents for services rendered as cook; to W. A. Lang
ston, twenty dollars and twenty-five cents for services rendered a:
guard; Jobn F. Collins, ten dollars and fifty cents for services a
guard; to N. A. Collins, twenty-six dollars and fifty cents for ser-
vices rendered as guard; to W. T. Neale, one hundred and eleven
dollars and thirty-four cents for supplies furnished patients, and so
forth; to Moroity and Cabe, thirteen dollars and fifty cents for
clothing furnished; to Rilee Bradby, nineteen dollars and seventy-
five cents for services rendered as guard; to Herbert I. Lewis, money
advanced to guards, and so forth, two hundred and seventy-seven
dollars and thirty-eight cents; provided that when the parties, or
any one or more of them named in this act, shall accept the amounts
herein appropriated, sdid amounts shall be in full of all demands
against the state of Virginia or the county of King William.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.