Chap. 113.—An ACT to provide for the payment of compensation to the court
stenographer employed on behalf of the State of Virginia by the attorney
general to stenograph the evidence and transcribe a record in the case
of Commonwealth of Virginia v. J. Frederick Kernochan, committee of
Marie Marshall, in the cireuit court of James City county, and the city
of Williamsburg, on the 11th day of October, 1917. [S B 122

Approved March 9, 1918.

Whereas, in January, nineteen hundred and sixteen, legal pro-
ceedings were instituted in the circuit court of James City county
and the city of Williamsburg on behalf of the Commonwealth of
Virginia against J. Frederick Kernochan, committee of Marie Mar-
shall, to collect certain omitted taxes, due on the estate of the said
Marie Marshall for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven to
nineteen hundred and fifteen, inclusive; and,

Whereas, upon the hearing of the cause in October, nineteen hun-
dred and seventeen, it was brought to the attention of the attorney-
general, that State taxes to the amount of nearly one-half million
dollars were involved; that the defendant had retained the services
of several counsel, to resist the payment of the said taxes, and had
also employed a court stenographer to prepare a record to be used
by them; that inasmuch as many technical points of law had been
invoked by the defendant to defeat the claims of the State, the
record would be complicated and voluminous; and that the case
would, in all probability, be appealed to the supreme court of appeals
of the State of Virginia, and possibly to the supreme court of the
United States; and, |

Whereas, the attorney-general, deeming it necessary and ex-
pedient to retain the services of an experienced court stenographer
to attend the hearing, stenograph the evidence and prepare a record
for the use of the State, thereupon employed Mister A. C. Williams,
to serve as court stenographer in behalf of the Commonwealth; and,

Whereas, the said court stenographer, during the course of the
hearing, spent six full days stenographing the evidence and there-
after transcribed a typewritten record of one hundred and forty-six
thousand, three hundred words, covering six hundred and sixty-five
pages; and,

Whereas, the court stenographer has presented his account
against the Commonwealth to the amount of three hundred and
sixty-nine dollars and seventy cents, which account is based upon
the usual charges for such services and has been approved by the
attorney genera); therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts is hereby directed to draw his warrant in
favor of A. C. Williams, for the sum of three hundred and sixty-
nine dollars and seventy cents on the treasurer of Virginia, payable
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full
payment of all claims of said court stenographer for compensation
for the services hereinbefore set out.

2. «An emergency existing this act shall be in force from its
passage.