Chap. 4.—An ACT appropriating the Public Revenue for the fiscal
year 1865-6,

Passed March 2, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the public
taxes and arrears of taxes due prior to the first day of Octo-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and not otherwise appro-
priated, and of all other branches of rev enue, and all public
moneys not otherwise appropriated by law, which shall come
into the treasury prior to the said first day of October, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-six, shall constitute a general fund,
and be appropriated for the fiseal year to close on the thir ticth
of September, eighteen hundred and. sixty-six, as follows,
to wit:

To expenses of the general assembly for the session com-
mencing on the fourth day of December, cighteen hundred
and sixty-five, seventy-five thonsand dollars.

To expenses of representation, five hundred dollars.

To salaries and allowances of the officers of civil govern-
ment, eighty thousand dollars.

To defray eriminal charges, including expenses of jurors,

witnesses and cuarding jails, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For support “ot convicts, thirteen thousand dollars.

For transporting convicts to the penitentiary, tive thousand
dollars.
Yor salaries to superintendent, assistant keepers, &c. of
the penitentiary, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For pay of interior guard of the penitentiary, three thou-

sand dollars.

To contingent expenses of courts, twenty-one thousand
dollars.

To pay for printing records of court of appeals and distr ict
courts, two thousand dollars.

To pay of adjutant general, fifteen hundred dollars.

To the military contingent fund, two thousand dollars.

To the Virginia military institute at Lexington, fifteen
thousand dollars; which shall be in full of all appropriations
made by law tor that institution.

To the public guard at Richmond, twenty-eight thousand
dollars.

To provide quarters for public cuard, by repairing a part
of the armory building, or elsewhere, three thousand dollars.

To the Western lunatic asylum, sixty thousand dollars ;
subject to a credit of seventeen thousand five hundred dol-
lars, already received, and the amount received on account of
pay patient fund.

To the Western lunatic asylum, to pay debts due before
first of July, cighteen hundred and _ sixty-five, twenty-six
thousand dollars.

To the Eastern lunatic asylum, fifty-seven thousand five
hundred dollars; subject to a credit of fifteen thousand dol-
lars, already reccived, and the amount of the pay patient fund.

For claims against Eastern lunatic asylum, due before July
first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, provided for by the act
} assed on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hup-
dred and sixty-six, eighteen thousand three hundred and
thirty-six dollars and fifty-five cents.

For maintenance of lunatics in jails, two thousand five hun-
dred dollars.

For the institution of the deaf, dumb and blind at Staunton,
for annuity, twenty-five thousand dollars; subject to a credit
of six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, already
received.

To civil prosecutions, five thousand dollars.

To vaccine agent at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

To public warehouses, one hundred dollars.

To civil contingent find, in addition to twenty thousand
seven hundred and sev enty- -four dollars and nine ty-elght cents,
paid from that fund since the first of October last, ten thou-
sand dollars: and the auditor of public accounts is hereby
authorized to transiecr on the books of his office, to their
appropriate tunds or heads of expenditure, all such sums as
have been paid out of the contingent fund, for lack of the
ordinary appropriations, prior to the e passage of this act.

tepairs and furniture for governor's house—for excess of
expenditure over appropriation of two thousand dollars made
on the twenty-second of June, ciehteen hundred and sixty-
five, five hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-five cents.

Repairs of capitol—tor excess of expenditure over appro-
priation of one thousand dollars made on the twenty-second
of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand nine
hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty-one cents.

Repairs to capitol, governors house and public square, and
to purchase furniture for governor's house, under act passed
the ninth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten
thousand dollars.

To pay expenses of clerks in the office of the second audi-
tor, two thousand four hundred dollars.

To pay for services of temporary clerks in the office of the
auditor of public accounts and of the second auditor, includ-
ing four hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-one cents,
paid since the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-
five, four thousand five hundred dollars.

To L. W. Chamberlayne, for thirteen days’ services as an
enrolling clerk, one hundred and four dollars.

To Frederick Gretter, for one day's service as an enrolling
clerk, eight dollars. /

To contingent expenses of board of public works, three
hundred dollars.

To commissioners of the revenue, thirty-eight thousand
dollars.

To the university of Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.

For payment of interest due upon state and guaranteed
bonds, due to colleges, seminaries and academies, twenty-
eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and
fitty- -seven cents.

To the Richmond medical college, for insurance and repairs
to buildings, fifteen hundred dollars.

For the purchase of raw material and for other supplies for
the penitentiary, ten thousand dollars; to be expended by
the general agent upon the requisition of the board of di-
rectors.

For repairs and machinery of the penitentiary buildings,
twenty thousand dollars.

For salary of messenger in the office of the auditor of
public accounts from first February to the thirtieth September,
eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five hundred and thirty-three
dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents.

For registration of births, marriages and deaths, two thou-
sand five hundred dollars.

To each of the pages of the senate and house of delegates,
the sum of three dollars per day for each day of service as
such: to be paid upon the certificate of the clerk of the
senate and the clerk of the house of delegates, respectiv cly.

To Altred Thornton, porter to the senate, for his services
as such, and also for his attention to the senate chamber,
clerk's office and committee rooms of the senate, and m: king
fires in the same. two dollars and fifty cents per day; to be
paid on the certificate of the clerk of the senate.

To the further expenses of making fires and superintending
furnaces in the capitol, the customary allowances, with an
addition of fifty per centnm to the several persons entitled
to the same; to be paid upon the certificate of the superin-
tendent of public buildings.

For public printing, twenty thousand dollars.

For salary of superintendent of public printing, one thou-
sand dollars.

2. So much of the public revenue as may be received into the
public treasury after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, and the surplus of all other appro-
priations made prior to that date, unexpended within the
fiscal year hereinbefore provided for, and all other moneys
not otherwise appropriated by law, shall constitute a general
fund to defray such expenses authorized by law as are not
herein particularly provided for, and to defray the usual
allowances to lunatic asvlums and other current expenses of
the commonwealth in the fiscal year which will commence on
the first day of October, eichteen hundred and sixty-six, and
terminate on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-seven. And the auditor of public accounts is
hereby authorized and required to issue his warrants in the
same manner as if the same had been specially mentioned,
subject to such exceptions, limitations and conditions as the
ecneral assembly have prescribed, or may deem it proper to
annex and prescribe by law: provided, that nothing in this
act contained shall be so construed as to authorize the auditor
of public accounts to issue his warrant or warrants in satisfac-
tion of any judgment or decree of any court of law or equity
against the commonwealth for a sum exceeding three hundred
dollars, without a special appropriation by law.

3. The payments to the military institute, for support to the
lunatic asylums, for support and transportation of patients,
and to the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb
and the blind, shall be made, one-fourth in advance, on the
first day of April; one-half on the first day of July (if the
visitors or directors so require); and the remaining one-fourth
on the first day of September.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 4.—An ACT appropriating the Public Revenue for the fiscal
year 1865-6,

Passed March 2, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the public
taxes and arrears of taxes due prior to the first day of Octo-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and not otherwise appro-
priated, and of all other branches of rev enue, and all public
moneys not otherwise appropriated by law, which shall come
into the treasury prior to the said first day of October, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-six, shall constitute a general fund,
and be appropriated for the fiseal year to close on the thir ticth
of September, eighteen hundred and. sixty-six, as follows,
to wit:

To expenses of the general assembly for the session com-
mencing on the fourth day of December, cighteen hundred
and sixty-five, seventy-five thonsand dollars.

To expenses of representation, five hundred dollars.

To salaries and allowances of the officers of civil govern-
ment, eighty thousand dollars.

To defray eriminal charges, including expenses of jurors,

witnesses and cuarding jails, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For support “ot convicts, thirteen thousand dollars.

For transporting convicts to the penitentiary, tive thousand
dollars.
Yor salaries to superintendent, assistant keepers, &c. of
the penitentiary, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For pay of interior guard of the penitentiary, three thou-

sand dollars.

To contingent expenses of courts, twenty-one thousand
dollars.

To pay for printing records of court of appeals and distr ict
courts, two thousand dollars.

To pay of adjutant general, fifteen hundred dollars.

To the military contingent fund, two thousand dollars.

To the Virginia military institute at Lexington, fifteen
thousand dollars; which shall be in full of all appropriations
made by law tor that institution.

To the public guard at Richmond, twenty-eight thousand
dollars.

To provide quarters for public cuard, by repairing a part
of the armory building, or elsewhere, three thousand dollars.

To the Western lunatic asylum, sixty thousand dollars ;
subject to a credit of seventeen thousand five hundred dol-
lars, already received, and the amount received on account of
pay patient fund.

To the Western lunatic asylum, to pay debts due before
first of July, cighteen hundred and _ sixty-five, twenty-six
thousand dollars.

To the Eastern lunatic asylum, fifty-seven thousand five
hundred dollars; subject to a credit of fifteen thousand dol-
lars, already reccived, and the amount of the pay patient fund.

For claims against Eastern lunatic asylum, due before July
first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, provided for by the act
} assed on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hup-
dred and sixty-six, eighteen thousand three hundred and
thirty-six dollars and fifty-five cents.

For maintenance of lunatics in jails, two thousand five hun-
dred dollars.

For the institution of the deaf, dumb and blind at Staunton,
for annuity, twenty-five thousand dollars; subject to a credit
of six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, already
received.

To civil prosecutions, five thousand dollars.

To vaccine agent at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

To public warehouses, one hundred dollars.

To civil contingent find, in addition to twenty thousand
seven hundred and sev enty- -four dollars and nine ty-elght cents,
paid from that fund since the first of October last, ten thou-
sand dollars: and the auditor of public accounts is hereby
authorized to transiecr on the books of his office, to their
appropriate tunds or heads of expenditure, all such sums as
have been paid out of the contingent fund, for lack of the
ordinary appropriations, prior to the e passage of this act.

tepairs and furniture for governor's house—for excess of
expenditure over appropriation of two thousand dollars made
on the twenty-second of June, ciehteen hundred and sixty-
five, five hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-five cents.

Repairs of capitol—tor excess of expenditure over appro-
priation of one thousand dollars made on the twenty-second
of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand nine
hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty-one cents.

Repairs to capitol, governors house and public square, and
to purchase furniture for governor's house, under act passed
the ninth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten
thousand dollars.

To pay expenses of clerks in the office of the second audi-
tor, two thousand four hundred dollars.

To pay for services of temporary clerks in the office of the
auditor of public accounts and of the second auditor, includ-
ing four hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-one cents,
paid since the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-
five, four thousand five hundred dollars.

To L. W. Chamberlayne, for thirteen days’ services as an
enrolling clerk, one hundred and four dollars.

To Frederick Gretter, for one day's service as an enrolling
clerk, eight dollars. /

To contingent expenses of board of public works, three
hundred dollars.

To commissioners of the revenue, thirty-eight thousand
dollars.

To the university of Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.

For payment of interest due upon state and guaranteed
bonds, due to colleges, seminaries and academies, twenty-
eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and
fitty- -seven cents.

To the Richmond medical college, for insurance and repairs
to buildings, fifteen hundred dollars.

For the purchase of raw material and for other supplies for
the penitentiary, ten thousand dollars; to be expended by
the general agent upon the requisition of the board of di-
rectors.

For repairs and machinery of the penitentiary buildings,
twenty thousand dollars.

For salary of messenger in the office of the auditor of
public accounts from first February to the thirtieth September,
eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five hundred and thirty-three
dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents.

For registration of births, marriages and deaths, two thou-
sand five hundred dollars.

To each of the pages of the senate and house of delegates,
the sum of three dollars per day for each day of service as
such: to be paid upon the certificate of the clerk of the
senate and the clerk of the house of delegates, respectiv cly.

To Altred Thornton, porter to the senate, for his services
as such, and also for his attention to the senate chamber,
clerk's office and committee rooms of the senate, and m: king
fires in the same. two dollars and fifty cents per day; to be
paid on the certificate of the clerk of the senate.

To the further expenses of making fires and superintending
furnaces in the capitol, the customary allowances, with an
addition of fifty per centnm to the several persons entitled
to the same; to be paid upon the certificate of the superin-
tendent of public buildings.

For public printing, twenty thousand dollars.

For salary of superintendent of public printing, one thou-
sand dollars.

2. So much of the public revenue as may be received into the
public treasury after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, and the surplus of all other appro-
priations made prior to that date, unexpended within the
fiscal year hereinbefore provided for, and all other moneys
not otherwise appropriated by law, shall constitute a general
fund to defray such expenses authorized by law as are not
herein particularly provided for, and to defray the usual
allowances to lunatic asvlums and other current expenses of
the commonwealth in the fiscal year which will commence on
the first day of October, eichteen hundred and sixty-six, and
terminate on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-seven. And the auditor of public accounts is
hereby authorized and required to issue his warrants in the
same manner as if the same had been specially mentioned,
subject to such exceptions, limitations and conditions as the
ecneral assembly have prescribed, or may deem it proper to
annex and prescribe by law: provided, that nothing in this
act contained shall be so construed as to authorize the auditor
of public accounts to issue his warrant or warrants in satisfac-
tion of any judgment or decree of any court of law or equity
against the commonwealth for a sum exceeding three hundred
dollars, without a special appropriation by law.

3. The payments to the military institute, for support to the
lunatic asylums, for support and transportation of patients,
and to the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb
and the blind, shall be made, one-fourth in advance, on the
first day of April; one-half on the first day of July (if the
visitors or directors so require); and the remaining one-fourth
on the first day of September.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.