Chap. 287.—An ACT appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal
Year 1866-67.

Passed March 2, 1867. ©

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-seven, and not otherwise ap-
pr opriated, and of all branches of revenue and all public
moneys not otherwise appropriated by Jaw, which shall come
into the treasury prior to the first day of October, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, shall constitute a general fund and
be appropriated for the fiscal year to close on the thirtieth
of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as follows,
to wit:

To expenses of the general assembly, for the session com-
mencing on the third day of December, eighteen hundred
and sixty-six, including the pay of pages, porter to the
senate, and the further expense of making fires, at the com-
pensation fixed by an act appropriating the public revenue,
passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

To expense of representation, one thousand dollars.

' To salaries and allowances to the officers of the civil gov-
ernment, ninety-five thousand dollars.

To defray criminal charges, including expenses of jurors,
witnesses and guarding jails, one hundred thousand dollars.

For support of convicts, ten thousand dollars.

or transporting convicts to the penitentiary, ten thousand
dollars.

For salaries of superintendent, assistant keepers, &c., of
the penitentiary, nine thousand four hundred dollars. —

To contingent expenses of courts, forty thousand dollars.

For pay of the interior guard of the penitentiary, three
thousand two hundred and forty. dollars.

To pay for printing records of the court of appeals and
district courts, one thousand dollars.

To pay of adjutant general, two thousand dollars.

To pay of a clerk in | the adjutant general’s office, from the
first of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, seven hun-
dred dollars.

To pay of an additional clerk in the treasuter’s office, from
the first of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, seven
hundred dollars.

To the military contingent fund, eleven hundred dollars.

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

To the public guard at Richmond, forty thousand dollars.

To the Western lunatic asylum, sixty thousand dollars, and
the amount received on account of the pay patient fund.

To the Eastern lunatic asylum, sixty thousand dollars, and
the amount of the pay patient fund.

For majntenance of lunatics in jail, one thousand dollars.

For the institution of the deaf, dumb and blind, at Staun-
ton, for annuity, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For civil prosecutions, five hundred dollars.

For vaccine agent at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

To public warehouses, one hundred dollars.

To civil contingent fund, twenty thousand dollars.

To pay expenses of additional clerks in the office of the
second auditor, from the first of October, eighteen hundred
and sixty-six, to October first, eighteen hundred and sixty-
seven, two thousand seven hundred dollars.

To. pay expenses of temporary clerks in.the office of the
auditor of public accounts, four thousand dollars.

To contingent expenses of the Board of public works,
three hundred dollars.

To commissioners of the revenue, fifty-five thousand dol-
lars.

To the University of Vir ginia, fifteen thousand dollars, for
the year eighteen hundr ed and sixty-seven, to be applied
part to the payment of interest on the outstanding bonds of
the institution.

For salary of messenger in the office of the auditor of
public accounts, eight hundred dollars.

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

For public printing, exclusive of that for the general
assembly, and for commissioners’ books, twelve thousand
dollars.

For interest on temporary loans, one hundred dollars.

For expenses of funding the public debt, one thousand
dollars.

For expenses of the militia, two thousand 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-seven, and the surplus of all other
appropriations made prior to that date, unexpended within
the tiscal yearehereinbefore 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 asylums and other current ex-
penses of the commonwealth, in the fiscal year which will
commence on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, and terminate on the thirtieth day of September,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight ;-and the auditor of public
accounts is hereby authorized and required to issue his war-
rants in the same manner as if the same had been specially
mentioned, subject to such exceptions, limitations and condi-
tions as the general assembly have prescribed, or may deem
it proper to annex and prescribe by law: provided that noth-
ing in this act contained shall be so construed as to authorize
the auditor of public accounts to issue his warrant or war-
rants in satisfaction of any. judgment or decree of any court
of law or equity against the commonwealth for a sum ex-
ceeding three hundred dollars, without a special appropria-
tion by law. ,

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

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