Chap. 308.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Jack McCulloch. [S B 289]
Approved March 24, 1926.

Whereas, on the twentieth day of March, nineteen hundred and
twenty-five, L. T. Mundy, sheriff of Botetourt county, Virginia
deputized Jack McCulloch, a citizen of said county to accompany
him to an illicit distillery near Indian Rock in said county, which
he had located, for the purpose of raiding the premises and arresting
persons operating the distillery, and,

Whereas, the said Jack McCulloch in obedience to said summon
of the said sheriff, did accompany the raiding party to said distillery
and in the attempt of the said sheriff and deputies to arrest three
negro men and one negro woman found at said distillery, the said
Jack McCulloch was instantly killed by a shot from a gun in the
hands of one of the said negro men who was resisting arrest, and,

Whereas, the said Jack McCulloch left surviving him, Mrs. Jack
McCulloch, his widow and one infant child, without property or any
means of support for her and her infant child, and,

Whereas, a person deputized by the sheriff of a county of this
State does not come under the provisions of the workmen’s com-
pensation act, and no suit can be maintained against the county or
State by the widow of the deceased for compensation or damages
for the death of her husband, without the consent of the county or
State, which consent has not been given; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to issue
his warrant on the treasurer of Virginia in favor of Mrs. Jack Mc-
Culloch for the sum of one thousand dollars, in full payment of her
claim against the Commonwealth on account of the death of her
husband, the late Jack McCulloch. The said sum is hereby ap-
propriated for the said purpose, and it shall be paid out of any moneys
in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.