Chap. 128.—An ACT to provide for the relief of ‘battery “C,” first battalion

* artillery, Virginia volunteers (Grimes battery), Norfolk and Virginia Beach
railway company, Dr. R. S. Spilman, C. R. Warren, W. E. Simons, for ser-
vices rendered in aid of the civil authorities of the commonwealth of Vir-
ginia in preventing the spread of yellow fever.

Approved January 24, 1900.

Whereas on August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Captain
C. R. Warren, commanding “ battery C,” first battalion artillery, was
ordered by Major W. E. Simons to report for duty with his battery at
Ocean View and to obey all instructions received from Doctor F.S. Hope,
the quarantine officer of that district, or his assistant, Doctor Lynch,
towards enforcing the quarantine regulations against the infected dis-
tricts; and

Whereas said order was given by Major W. E. Simons upon request
in proper form from the mayor of Portsmouth; and

Whereas said battery did report for duty and did assist the civil author-
ities from the first day of August to the sixteenth day of August, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-nine, and performed every duty required of
them in maintaining the quarantine against the yellow fever infected
district; and

Whereas the governor having been duly notified of said call, ratified
and confirmed the same, and sent arms and ammunition to the battery
so called into service; and

Whereas warrants were drawn by the proper authorities to pay for
said services so performed; and

Whereas the auditor of public accounts has refused to pay the same
hecause the call was made by the mayor of Portsmouth, and not by the
sheriff of Norfolk county; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to draw
his warrants to take up and pay out of any funds in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the following warrants drawn upon him by the
adjutant-general, as ordered by the governor, in payment of accounts
properly audited by said office for the benefit of the following persons,
and for the following sums—to-wit: Captain C. R. Warren, commander
battery “C,” first battalion Virginia volunteers, one thousand three
hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-six cents ($1,354.86), Norfolk
and Virginia Beach railway company, fourteen ($14.00) dollars, Doctor
R. 8. Spilman, twenty-seven dollars and_ fifty cents ($27.50), Cc. R.
Warren, thirty dollars and fifty-five cents ($30.55), Major W. E. Simons.
ten dollars and three cents ($10.03), and Major W. E. Simons one hun-
dred and thirty-six dollars and eleven cents ($136.11), amounting to the
sum of one thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and five

cents (81,573.05).

2. This act shall take effect from its passage.