Chap. 79.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved May
15, 1903, entitled “an act to appropriate the sum of $10,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of the act to pro-
vide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed in statuary hall in Wash-
ington, and to constitute a commission to contract for said statue and
present the same.”

Approved March 7, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section

three of an act entitled “an act to appropriate the sum of ten thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of an act to provide a statue of Robert Edward Lee, to be placed
in statuary hall in Washington, and to constitute a commission to con-
tract for said statue and present the same,” approved May fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
_ §3. The said commission shall choose one of its members as chairman
and another as secretary, who shall, when authorized by said commis-
sion, make an order on the auditor of public accounts for said appro-
priation in such amount or amounts as said commission may direct.
and the auditor of public accounts is hereby directed, upon presentation
of such order or orders, duly signed by the chairman and attested by
the secretary of the commission at any time within two years from the
end of the present session of the general assembly of nineteen hundred
and six, to draw his warrant upon the State treasurer for the payment of
the said appropriation in such amount or amounts as may be ordered :
provided, however, that not more than one-third of the said sum of ten
thousand dollars hereby appropriated shall be available before the com-
pletion of the said statue. The commission as at present constituted
shall continue in existence, except that the governor of Virginia in
office when the act becomes a law shall become a member ex-officio.