Chap. 957.—An ACT for the relief of Charles S. Snider, late deputy sheriff of
Smyth county.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas on the thirty-first day of March, cighteen hundred and
ninety-seven, Charles S. Snider, a deputy sheriff of Smyth county,
while attempting to arrest one Joshua Grubb, a desperate character
and a lunatic, who was heavily armed, and while on the public street
of Marion began to shoot indiscriminately at persons on said street,
was severely wounded by said lunatic in the left side of the neck,
which partially paralyzed his left arm and rendered him a cripple for
life, and permanently incapacitated him from performing manual labor;
and

Whereas said Snider was compelled to make two trips to a hospital in
Richmond for special treatment of said wound, and contracted bills
for medical services and expenses attending treatment to the extent
of three hundred and fifty dollars; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be authorized and directed to draw his draft
on the treasurer of this commonwealth in favor of said Charles 8.
Snider for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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