Chap. 4.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by chapter 340 of the acts of 1903-’4, relating to the time statutes take
effect and the publication thereof.

Approved February 3, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section four
of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter three hundred and forty
of the acts of assembly session of nineteen hundred and _ three-’four,
approved December third, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Commencement of statutes.—Every act of assembly, except a general
appropriation act, shall take effect ninety days after the adjournment
of the session of the general assembly, at which it was enacted, unless in
case of emergency (which emergency shall be expressed in the body of
the act), the general assembly shall otherwise direct by a vote of four-
fifths of the members voting in each house. Such vote shall be taken by
the yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for and against
entered on the journal. A general appropriation act shall take effect
from its passage, unless another day for the commencement thereof be
particularly mentioned in the act itself, and the day on which every act
was approved by the governor or became a law without his approval,
shall be noted in the publication next after the title thereof; and next
after the last act published in each volume of the acts of assembly there
shall be printed a certificate of the clerk of the house of delegates stating
the date of the adjournment of the session or sessions of the general as-
sembly at which the acts printed in such volumes were enacted. |

2. Because of the necessity for having the acts of assembly printed as
fast as enacted an emergency is declared, and this act shall take effect
from its passage.