Chap. 9.—An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental ex-
penses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.

Approved February 8, 1904.

Whereas, there are certain contingent and incidental expenses of this
general assembly which cannot be provided for specifically, and which
must be paid; and

Whereas, certain incidental expenses of the session of nineteen hun-
dred and two, nineteen hundred and three, nineteen hundred and four,
remain unpaid ; and .

Whereas, there has been no appropriation made to meet the same; and

Whereas, section one hundred and eighty-six of the Constitution pro-
vides that no money shall be paid out of the State treasury except in pur-
suance of appropriations made by law, and section fifty of the Constitu-
tion provides that no law shall be enacted except by bill; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to issue his warrant upon
the treasurer of the State for such amounts as may be required for such
contingent and incidental expenses as may be provided for by resolution
either of the senate or house of delegates, for this session or the extra
session of nineteen hundred and two, nineteen hundred and three, and
nineteen hundred and four. :

%. It is hereby made the duty of the clerk of the senate and the clerk
of the house of delegates, respectively, to keep an itemized account and
statement, giving the name of each person receiving any money on ac-
count of any contingent or incidental expense authorized under any and
all resolution or resolutions as may be hereafter adopted by their respec-
tive houses in reference to any contingent and incidental expense thereof ;
said itemized account and statement shall show also for what service or
account, and have a reference to the resolution authorizing the same,
and shall be appended to the end of the journal of their respective houses
and published therewith as document “A.” *

8. It is hereby made the duty of the auditor of public accounts to keep
a separate account of the contingent and incidental expenses of the sen-
ate and house of delegates of Virginia, respectively, as authorized by reso-
lution as aforesaid, showing the amount expended under each resolution,
and to include the same in his annual report to the governor and general
assembly of Virginia.
_ 4, To pay the expenses above referred to, there is -hereby appropriated,
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum
of four thousand dollars, one-half of which shall be set apart for the use
of the Senate, and the other half for the use of the house of delegates.

5. This being an emergency act, it shall be in force from its passage.