CHAPTER 291

AN ACT for the relief of Reba Chandler and others.

Approved April 4, 1950

Whereas, on September twenty-three, nineteen hundred
forty-eight, E. W. Powell, a guard in the employment of the
State Convict Road Force, shot at an escaping prisoner on the
east side of highway number five hundred one, approximately
three hundred feet from the railway station in Halifax, Virginia,
and accidentally injured Reba Chandler of Halifax, Virginia;
an

Whereas, Reba Chandler, due to no fault of her own was
totally incapacitated for work for a long period of time, sus-
tained serious injuries and was put to medical expenses in the
amount of one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty-five
cents hospital charge and twenty-five dollars doctor’s charge
and other expenses as a result of the action of an employee of an
agency of the Commonwealth; Now, Therefore

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That there is hereby appropriated from the proceeds of the
tax on motor vehicle fuels, the sum of $411.87 in full settlement
of the hospital and medical expenses incurred and the losses
sustained by the said Reba Chandler as the result of the said inci-
dent, and the Comptroller is authorized to draw warrants on
the State Treasurer as follows: One for $129.45 to South Bos-
ton Hospital Incorporated, South Boston, Va., and one for
$25.00 to Dr. J. M. Davis, South Boston, Va., in payment of their
respective charges for hospital and medical treatment of the said
Reba Chandler, and a warrant to the said Reba Chandler for
$257.42 in compensation and re-imbursement for the time lost
by her from work and her board during the period of recupera-
tion.