Chap. 404.—An ACT for the relief of Norella J. Wood, Mary Norella Wood,
James Newton Wood and John Edwin Wood. [H B 349]

Approved March 23, 1932

Whereas, James Newton Wood, an inspector in the department of
law, department of prohibition, was, on the nineteenth day of Decem-
ber, nineteen hundred and thirty, in the county of Richmond, while in
the lawful discharge of his official duty, unlawfully, maliciously and
feloniously shot and instantly killed by Randolph C. Cox; and

Whereas, said Wood had been for a considerable length of time an
honest, faithful and efficient officer of the federal government and was
employed as an inspector by the attorney general of Virginia, shortly
after the enforcement of prohibition laws, was placed in the depart-
ment of law, because of the good repute he had established while in
the federal service, and was receiving at the time of his death two
thousand dollars annual salary; and

Whereas, under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation law,
section two, subsection (a), the word employers is made to include the
“State,” and under section eight the State is precluded from rejecting
the provisions of the compensation laws “relative to payment and ac-
ceptance of compensation,” and under section eleven is under obliga-
tion to provide liability insurance or carry self-insurance, and that, be-
cause of the rate of insurance premiums allowed by law for risks of
the character assumed by inspectors of the prohibition department, the
attorney general was unable to carry liability insurance on its inspec-
tors, and the State thereby became a self-carrier of insurance upon the
person of Inspector Wood; and

Whereas, said James Newton Wood left surviving a widow, Norella
J. Wood, a daughter, Mary Norella Wood, fifteen years of age and a
high school student, and two sons, James Newton Wood, Junior, seven
years of age, and John Edwin Wood, four years of age, all of whom
were wholly dependent on their husband and father; and

Whereas, claim for compensation having been made, the industrial
commission made the following award:

‘Date February sixth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two.
“Mailed out January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-two.
“To Commonwealth of Virginia, division of prohibition,

Richmond, Virginia (Employer)
“and Mistress Norella J. Wood, and others, (Claimant )
Six hundred and seven, Roseneath Road, Richmond, Virginia.
Major Edwin Gibson, assistant attorney general, Richmond, Virginia.

“and self-insured_-__-__-__-_--_------- (insurance carrier).

“You are hereby notified that a hearing was held in the above styled
case before Commissioner Kizer, of Richmond, Virginia, on January
twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and a decision ren-
dered directing an award in favor of the dependents of the deceased
employee as follows:

“To Mistress Norella J. Wood, fourteen ($14.00) dollars per week,
for the joint and equal use of herself and the infant dependents: Mary
Wood, James Wood and John Wood (the right of each child to share
in the compensation terminates when it reaches the age of eighteen
years) payable every four weeks, beginning December nineteenth,
nineteen hundred and thirty, to continue for a period of three hundred
(300) weeks from date of accident, unless subsequent conditions re-
quire a modification.

“To proper parties, the cost of burial expenses not to exceed the
sum of one hundred fifty ($150.00) dollars.

“The defendant will pay the costs in this proceeding.
‘Attest :
“W.F. Bursey,
“Secretary.”
vhich award for three hundred weeks at fourteen dollars amounts to
orty-two hundred dollars ; and

Whereas, in order to carry the award in effect, it is necessary for
he general assembly to make an appropriation ; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
ye, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of twenty-five hundred and
sixty-two dollars to Norella J. Wood for the joint and equal benefit of
1erself and Mary Wood, James Newton Wood and John Edwin Wood,
payable out of the fund in the State treasury appropriated to the office
yf the attorney general for the enforcement of prohibition by house
sill one hundred and four for the biennium nineteen hundred and
hirty-two-nineteen hundred and thirty-four, and payable as provided
for in the award of the industrial commission heretofore mentioned in
this bill.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall bein force from its
passage.