Chap. 133.—An ACT to provide for the purchase and distribution to certain
officials copies of Waddey’s guide to magistrates, and to appropriate money
for that purpose.

Approved March 10, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the secre-
tary of the Commonwealth be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed
to purchase of the Everett Waddey company two thousand copies (or so
many as may be necessary) of Waddey’s guide to magistrates, edited by
John Garland Pollard and Christopher B. Garnett, at the cost of three
dollars per copy (provided said price does not exceed the wholesale price
at which said books are sold), and supply one copy to each of the fol-
lowing city and county officers—namely: Justices of the peace and police
justices, mayors of towns, Commonwealth’s attorneys and clerks of courts.

2. The said book shall be substantially and neatly bound in law, sheep
or buckram, as the secretary of the Commonwealth may determine,
printed on good paper, in clear type, and shall be stamped with an im-
pression on the lid “Property of the State, to be delivered to your suc-
cessor in office.”

3. When so constructed and marked the said books shall be delivered
in such lots as the secretary of the Commonwealth shall direct, at any
point in the city of Richmond, packed and ready for shipment.

4. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall ship to the clerks of the
several counties and clerks of the corporation courts of the several cities
a sufficient number of the.said books to supply the officials herein named
of the several counties, cities and towns.

The said clerks shall deliver the said books to the persons entitled
thereto on application, and shall take from each person receiving a copy
of said book, and preserve in their respective offices, a receipt, specifving
that the said book shall be delivered to his successor in office or returned
to the clerk from whom it was received.

5. When and as the said books are delivered, the same shall be paid
for by warrants drawn by the auditor of public accounts on the State
treasurer, on the order of the secretary of the Commonwealth, and the
cost of transportation shall be paid in the same manner.

6. The sum of six thousand one hundred dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, pavable out of any money
inthe State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the objects
of this act.