Chap. 480.—An ACT for the relief of Isaac B. Clark. [S B 52]
Approved March 25, 1926.

Whereas, Isaac B. Clark, a State fertilizer inspector for more than
eleven years in the employ of the commissioner of agriculture of Vir-
ginia, lost a leg as the result of fertilizer poisoning in his right foot
received in the course of his employment as such inspector; and,

Whereas, the industrial commission of Virginia, in an opinion
rendered on the ninth day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-
five, held that the injury resulted from an occupational disease, and
on that ground was compelled to refuse him compensation, but in
concluding its opinion made the following statement concerning the
case:

“The claimant is known to be a man of the strictest integrity and
enjoys the fullest confidence of all who know him. It was shown
that he has served his State faithfully for a period of exceeding eleven
vears. No doubts exists that the nature of his employment, together
with the class of work he was called upon to perform, was the direct

cause of the loss of his right foot.

‘Realizing, as we do, that this deserving claimant lost a limb in the
State’s service by reason of his occupation, we cannot refrain from
expressing the hope that the general assembly will find a method of
giving to Mister Clark what the statute provides for such loss as he
has sustained, it having been clearly established that the infection
resulting in the loss of the limb was a direct result of his occupation” ;
now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
shall be paid to the said Isaac B. Clark, for the injury aforesaid, such
sum as he would have been entitled to had the Industrial commission
of Virginia awarded him compensation under the workmen’s com-
pensation act, which sum shall be computed by the industrial com-
mission of Virginia, and paid out of the fertilizer fund of the depart-
ment of agriculture and immigration in the same manner as other
payments are made out of that fund.