Chap. 17.—An ACT to amend an re-enact an act entitled an act to empower
the circuit court and board of supervisors of any county to authorize and
permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public square at
the county seat thereof, approved February 19, 1904, and to add thereto
another section authorizing the board of supervisors to appropriate what-
ever sum or sums of money that may be necessary, out of any funds
belonging to said county, or to make a special levy and appropriate the
money derived therefrom for the completion of or the erection of a monu-
ment to the Confederate soldiers of said county upon the public square at
the county seat, or elsewhere at the county seat, and to appropriate from
time to time sufficient of the county funds to permanently care for, pro-
tect and preserve the same.

Approved February 9, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the circuit
court of any county be, and it is hereby, empowered, with the concurrence
of the board of supervisors of such county entered of record, to authorize
and permit the erection of a Confederate monument upon the public
square of such county at the county seat thereof. And if the same shall
be so erected it shall not be lawful thereafter for the authorities of said
county, or any other person or persons whatever, to disturb or interfere
with any monument so erected, or to prevent the citizens of said county
from taking all proper measures and exercising all proper means for the
protection, preservation and care of same.

2. And the board of supervisors of any county in this Commonwealth
be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to appropriate a suffi-
cient sum or sums of money out of the funds of any such county to
complete or aid in the erection of a monument to the Confederate sol-
diers of such county upon the public square thereof, or elsewhere at the
county seat; and they are also authorized to make a special levy to raise
the money necessary for the completion of any such monument, or the
erection of a monument to such Confederate soldiers, or to supplement
the funds already raised or that may be hereafter raised by private per-
sons, or by Confederate veterans, or other organizations, for the purposes
of building such monuments; and they are also authorized and empow-
ered to appropriate from time to time, out of any funds of such county, a
sufficient sum or sums of maney to permancntly care for, protect and pre-
serve the Confederate monument erected upon the public square of any
such county, and to expend the same therefor as other county funds are
expended.

3. An emergency existing by reason of the fact that many of the coun-
ties are ready to begin work on monuments and desire to make the appro-
priation at once, this act shall be in force from its passage.