Chap. 650.—An ACT to ratify the contract between the joint library committee
of the general assembly of Virginia, dated February 21, 1900, and the Michie
Company, and to provide for similar contracts with other persons.

Approved April 2, 1902.

Whereas, on the twenty-first day of February, nineteen hundred, the
joint library committee of the general assembly of Virginia entered inio
a contract with the Michie Company, a corporation of Charlottesville,
Virginia, by which said company agreed to purchase certain volumes or
the reports of the decisions of the court of appeals, and acting under and
by virtue of said contract, said company made large purchases of said
books and entered into contracts to supply said books to other parties,
which last contracts are still in force and obliged to be carried out by said
company ; and,

Whereas, by virtue of said contract the State has largely profited by
reason of the increased sales of said reports of the decisions of the court
of appeals; and,

Whereas, some doubt has been expressed as to the validity of contract:
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
contract of February twenty-one, nineteen hundred, between the joint
library committee of the general assembly of Virginia and the Michie
Company be, and the same is hereby, approved, ratified, and confirmed:
provided, however, that the State shall have, and hereby expressly re-
serves, the right to rescind said contract, and this confirmation thereof,
at the next session of the general assembly, or at any subsequent session
of the general assembly: and provided, further, that any other person or
corporation may have the privilege of entering into a contract on the same
terms and same conditions imposed upon said company in said contract
of February twenty-one, nineteen hundred.

2. All acts or parts of acts in so far as they are in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.