Chap. 214.—-An ACT for the relief of the estates of L. H. Kemp and E. L.
Tiller, deceased, and for the relief of W. L. Brittle, W. M. Milam and Robert
Rose. [S B 206]

Approved March 14, 1928

Whereas, during the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five,
cattle belonging to L. H. Kemp, now deceased, E. L. Tiller, now
deceased, W. L. Brittle, W. M. Milam and Robert Rose, were
condemned as tubercular cattle and slaughtered; and,

Whereas, of the said cattle so slaughtered, forty-one head ap-
praised at from seventy-five to eighty dollars per head, belonged to
the said L. H. Kemp, sixty-four head of cattle, appraised at forty-
eight hundred dollars, belonging to W. L. Brittle, twenty-two head
of cattle appraised at one hundred and fifty dollars per head, be-
longed to the said E. L. Tiller; thirty-three head of cattle, ap-
praised at one hundred and fifty dollars each, belonged to the said
W. M. Milam, and nine head of cattle, appraised at one hundred
and twenty-five dollars each, belonged to the said Robert Rose;
and,

Whereas, under Code section twelve hundred and twenty-five,
such owners are entitled to compensation for cattle thus destroyed
not to exceed forty dollars per head, except in the case of registered
cattle, when such compensation shall not exceed eighty dollars per
head; four of the animals belonging to E. L. Tiller, so slaughtered,
being registered animals; and,

Whereas, at the time said animals were slaughtered the dairy
and food division of the department of agriculture and immigration
did not have sufficient funds with which to pay for the slaughter
of the cattle herein referred to; and,

Whereas, the department now has sufficient funds with which
to pay such claims, but doubts its authority without act of the gen-
eral assembly to pay the same; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts is hereby, directed to draw his warrants
on the treasurer of Virginia payable as follows: to L. H. Kemp,
Jr., administrator of L. H. Kemp, for nine hundred and two dollars;
to W. L. Brittle twelve hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seven-
teen cents; to Virginia Tiller, administratrix of E. L. Tiller, de-
ceased, five hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-five cents; to
W. M. Milam, for five hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents;
to Robert Rose, one hundred and sixty dollars and eighty cents; to
be in full of any claims they may have on account of slaughter of
the cattle as set forth in the preamble of this bill. Said warrants
shall be charged against the balance of the indemnity fund ap-
propriated to the dairy and food division of the department of
agriculture and immigration for the biennium ending February
twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and so much of
said fund which may be necessary to pay the claims directed to be
paid for these bills shall not revert to the general fund of the
treasury March first, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, if not
expended before that date, and shall be retained in the treasury for
this purpose, and, is hereby appropriated for the payment of the
claims directed to be paid by this bill. If this statute should fail to
become a law prior to March first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, then the warrants hereby provided for shall be drawn by the
said treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, issued on au-
thority of this act.

2. There being an emergency of this act, it shall take effect from
its passage.