Chap. 293.—An ACT to provide for the support, maintenance, and instruction of
the Virginia volunteers, and for their maintenance and pay when called into
service in aid of the civil authorities or by the governor and commander-in-chief,
and appropriating money therefor.

Approved May 20, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sum of
one-half of one per centum of all receipts into the treasury derived from
regular sources of income, except the school fund, be, and the same is
hereby, appropriated for the support, maintenance, and instruction of
the Virginia volunteers.

2. The said sum shall be known as the military fund, and shall be con--
trolled, expended, and disbursed by the military board, as provided in
section three hundred and seventy-seven of the Code of Virginia.

That the military board of this State be, and it is hereby, authorized
to accept. by gift or grant, or to contract for the use of, and as soon as
practicable, out of the military fund to acquire suitable grounds for the
annual encampment of the Virginia volunteers, or such part thereof as
the funds at their disposal make possible.

4. That such annual encampment shall be held under rules and regu-
lations prescribed by the governor, and it shall be the duty of said board
to provide all sitable and necessary rifle ranges for the instruction of the
Virginia volunteers in the accurate use of their w eapons, and of the gov-
ernor to prescribe such rules and = regulations as will insure instrue-
tion as far as possible in all the duties of service in camp and in the field.

>. All officers and enlisted men of the Virginia volunteers while on
duty, or assembled therefor, pursuant to the call of the sheriff of any
county, or the mavor of any city, in cases of riot, tumult, breach of the
peace, resistance of process, or whenever called out in aid of the civil au-
thorities, shall receive the compensation provided in chapter twenty-one
of the Code of Virgima, and such compensation and the necessary ex-
penses incurred in subsisting, quartering, and transporting the troops
shall be paid by the treasurer of the State out of any moneys in the treas-
urv not otherwise appropriated, so much of said moneys as may be neces-
sary being hereby appropriated. Such payment shall be made on warrant
to be drawn by the auditor of public accounts on the treasurer of the
State upon certificates of the officer in actual command of the troops,
and upon pay-rolls prepared according to such forms as the State regula-
tions shall prescribe, such pay-roll and certificate to be transmitted to the
adjutant-general through the regular military channels, and he shall ap-
prove them before such warrants shall be drawn.

The auditor of public accounts and the State treasurer are hereby au-
thorized and directed to draw the warrants and make the payments herein
provided for.

The several railroads and other transportation companies in this Com-
monwealth shall furnish such transportation for troops so called out,
stores, munitions, and equipments, upon application of the officer in
actual command, accompanied by a certificate from him of the number of
men to be carried and their destination, and a copy of the order calling
them out; and for such transportation such companies shall be entitled
to receive compensation from the State, and it shall be the duty of the
adjutant-general to contract annually with the various railroad com-
panies of the State for rates of such transportation should there be oc-
casion for it.

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