ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA DURING THE SESSION OF 1876-77. RICHMOND: F. WALKER, SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC PRINTING. 1877. VIRGINIA STATE DOCUMENT Public Documents University of Virginia Library ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS. CHAP. 1.-JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the attorney-general to defend the interests of the State in the case of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company and the case of J. W. McCready against the commonwealth. Approved January 3, 1877. struct attorney fend interests preme court of Resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, That the Governor regovernor of the commonwealth be requested to instruct the quested to inattorney general of the State to appear and defend the inter- general to deests of the commonwealth in the case of the Chesapeake and of state in cerOhio railroad company against the commonwealth of Vir- tain suits in suginia, and in the case of J. W. McCready against the com- United States monwealth of Virginia, now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States upon appeals from the Court of Appeals of Virginia; and that the attorney-general be instructed to ask of the said Supreme Court an early hearing of the case of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company against the commonwealth of Virginia, the interests of the state demanding such early hearing. CHAP. 2.-An ACT providing compensation to the attorney-general for services rendered in the Supreme Court of the United States. Approved December 23, 1876. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sum of five hundred dollars be and is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Raleigh T. Daniel, attorney-general of the State, for services rendered as counsel in the case of Payne against Phillips, in the Supreme Court of the United States, involving the retrocession of Alexandria city and county by the United States to the State of Virginia. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Pay to attorney ices in supreme court of general for ser United States Commencement |