Chap. 282.—An ACT to appropriate the public revenue for the two fiscal years
ending, respectively, on the 28th day of February, 1911, and the 29th day
of February, 1912.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the publie
taxes and arrears of taxes, due prior to the first day of March, in the year
nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve, respec-
tively, as well as the revenue derived from all sources and all money not
otherwise appropriated, which shall come into the treasury prior to the
first day of March, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the first day of
March, nineteen hundred and twelve, respectively, shall establish a gen-
eral fund, and be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the fiscal years
to close on the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and
eleven, and the twenty-ninth day of February, nineteen hundred and

twelve, respectively, in the following manner and for the following uses,
to-wit:

For the fiscal year ending on the twenty-eighth day of February, nine-
teen hundred and eleven.

Governor, salary of, five thousand dollars.

Governor’s secretary, salary of, two thousand dollars.

Governor’s assistant secretary, who shall be the governor’s stenogra-
pher, salary of, not exceeding twelve hundred dollars.

Labor at the executive mansion, twelve hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, salary of, four thousand dollars.

Assistant attorney-general, salary of, twenty-five hundred dollars.

Stenographer, salary of, twelve hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, contingent expenses of office, exclusive of mileage,
not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, for mileage at ten cents per mile of necessary travel
on business of the State, a sum sufficient therefor, not to exceed two hun-
dred and fifty dollars.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, salary of, two thousand eight hun-
dred dollars, and he shall receive ten per centum of the amount of sales
of publications from his office; all fees of office shall be paid into treas-
ury monthly.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, three clerks in office, three thousand
eight hundred dollars.

To the secretary of the Commonwealth for rent of storage room for
State publications, and shelving, a sum sufficient, not exceeding four hun-
dred dollars.

For janitor and messenger, six hundred dollars.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, contingent expenses of office, not
exceeding six hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, salary of, four thousand dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, clerks in office, fifteen thousand and fifty
dollars, and the further sum of three hundred dollars as a supplement to
salary of chief bookkeeper.

Auditor of public accounts, receiving and forwarding clerk and mes-
senger, one thousand four hundred dollars.

Additional clerk, who shall have charge of the collection of franchise
taxes and registration fees, twelve hundred dollars.

Janitor for office of auditor of public accounts, seven hundred and
eighty dollars, and one hundred and ten dollars to pay for his services
from tenth January to first of March, nineteen hundred and ten.

Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of office, not exceed-
ing twelve hundred dollars.

File cases and expenses of moving into new office, one thousand dol-
lars.

Auditor (second), salary of, two thousand five hundred dollars, and
commissions allowed by law.

Auditor (second), clerks in office: first clerk, eighteen hundred dol-
lars; second clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks at one
thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; additional clerk, who shall
be expert bookkeeper, eighteen hundred dollars.

Auditor (second), contingent expenses of office, not exceeding three
hundred dollars.

, Treasurer, salary of, two thousand dollars, and commissions allowed
y law.

State treasurer’s chief clerk, two thousand dollars.

Treasurer, clerks in office, which shall include the compensation of the
funding clerks under funding acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-two
and eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seven thousand dollars.

Treasurer, contingent expenses of office, not exceeding three hundred
and fifty dollars.

Treasurer, for adding machine, three hundred and seventy-five dol-
lars.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of, two thousand dollars.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of clerk to, twelve hundred
dollars.

Superintendent of public printing, contingent expenses, three hun-
dred dollars.

Register of land office and superintendent of public buildings, salary
of, twenty-one hundred dollars, which shall be his compensation for all
services, and all the fees received by him shall be paid into the treasury
of the State.

Register of land office, contingent expenses of office, one thousand
five hundred dollars, which shall be expended by said register with due
regard to the walks, trees, grass and shrubbery of the Capitol Square
and the protection and feeding of the squirrels; and two thousand dollars
for repairs and keeping in order the public buildings and Lee Monument
grounds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the due and proper
insurance of the property under his charge. An itemized annual report
of all his expenditures shall be made by such register to the governor.

Salary of superintendent of penitentiary, two thousand two hundred
and fifty dollars.

Salary of surgeon at penitentiary, one thousand eight hundred dol-
lars.

Salary of assistant superintendent at penitentiary, one thousand two
hundred dollars. |

Salaries of four keepers at penitentiary, each nine hundred dollars,
three thousand six hundred dollars.

Salaries of clerks at penitentiary, three thousand six hundred dollars,
which shall include the sum allowed by law; bookkeeper, fifteen hundred
dollars; clerk and Bertillon clerk, twelve hundred dollars; record clerk,
nine hundred dollars.

Salary of matron at penitentiary, six hundred dollars.

Salaries of five directors of the penitentiary at the rate of three dol-
lars for every day’s attendance on the board: provided, that no director
shall receive more than two hundred dollars per annum, one thousand
dollars.

Salaries of interior and exterior guards at the penitentiary, not to
exceed fifty-one in number (not to be paid when absent on furlough for
more than fifteen days in any year, whether sick or otherwise—substitute
guards shall receive the same pay, when employed, as the regularly em-
ployed guards), each seven hundred and eighty dollars, thirty-nine thou-
sand, seven hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary.

For expenses of operating and repairs to electric chair, twenty-five
hundred dollars.

For transportation of criminals to and from the penitentiary, eight
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State Farm.

Such guards as may be necessary at the State Farm, not exceeding
twenty-two, to be appointed by the superintendent thercof, their compen-
sation to be each thirty dollars per month and their board, each guard to
be entitled to fifteen days’ vacation annually without deduction of pay,
seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary.

Surgeon at State Farm, six hundred dollars, and, in addition thereto,
board for himself and horse.

Superintendent at State Farm, one thousand dollars, and, in addi-
tion thereto, board for himself and family.

_ Penitentiary—For supplies of food, clothing, ordinary repairs, extra
guards, and incidental expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary. |

State Farm—For supplies of food and clothing, ordinary repairs,
extra guards, and incidental expenses, the proceeds of all sales from the
State Farm, which shall be paid into the treasury, and, in addition,
eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State corporation commission—NSalaries of three commissioners,
each the sum of four thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars; and the
further sum of five hundred dollars to the chairman of said commission
for his services as chairman thereof.

Salary of the clerk of the commission, two thousand five hundred dol-
lars, in addition to fees provided by law; assistant clerk, two thousand
dollars; statistical clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assessment
clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, each, one thousand
two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars; bailiff, one
thousand two hundred dollars; three stenagraphers, one thousand two
hundred dollars eash, three thousand and six hundred dollars; one mes-
senger, six hundred dollars; janitor and assistant messenger, nine hund-
red dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses of the commission, sixteen
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which shall
include expenses in connection with the assessment of mineral lands.

Commissioner, of agriculture and immigration, two thousand eight
hundred dollars, which shall be in full of his services, but all fees of
office and all fees accruing shall be paid into the treasury; to the Vir-
ginia State Horticultural Society, one thousand dollars for the purposes
now provided by law, as provided in an act entitled an act making an
appropriation for the benefit of the Virginia State Horticultural Society,
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, which, with all
other expenses of the board of agriculture, including the pay of ten fer-
tilizer inspectors, one from each congressional district, who shall be paid
the sum of seventy-five dollars per month while employed and their
expenses, shall be paid from the fees and taxes collected from fertilizers,
if sufficient for that purpose; if not, they shall be paid pro rata from said
funds, but in no event shall any part of such salary or expenses be paid
out of the public treasury if in excess of such fees and taxes collected on
fertilizers; should there be any excess from said taxes and fees on fer-
tilizers, the same shall be appropriated as provided by law to the State
board of agriculture, seven thousand five hundred dollars, for the benefit
of the dairy and food department. To department of agriculture and
immigration, for the promotion of homeseekers and land settlers and in-
vestors in Virginia, and for advertising the resources of this State in
other states and countries, five thousand dollars; and the further sum of
twenty-five hundred dollars to the department of agriculture for the spe-
cial development of horticulture. To the State board of agriculture, to
be used to aid the Virginia State Trucking Association, five thousand
dollars. For the purchase or manufacture of hog cholera serum, to be
supplied at cost to any citizen of this State, three thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, which shall include all appropriations
for this purpose.

Superintendent of public instruction, the sum of thirty-five hundred
dollars, and his necessary traveling expenses while engaged in the duties
of his office (to be approved by the board of education, not to exceed in
the aggregate, seven hundred dollars in any one year).

Commissioner of labor, salary of, two thousand dollars, and for the
purposes of his office, six thousand five hundred dollars.

Adjutant general, salary of, three thousand dollars, which shall include
the sum now allowed by law, all of which shall be paid out of the military
fund.

State librarian, salary of, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Assistant State librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars.

Reference librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Stenographer in State library, seven hundred and fifty dollars, and
for salary of cataloguer, nine hundred dollars, and to pay assistant jani-
tor, six hundred dollars.

Salaries of such other assistants and expenses necessary for publishing
Journal of House of Burgesses and for traveling libraries, the sum of six
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Doorkeeper, who shall also act as janitor to the library, seven hundred
and eighty dollars.

Two conductors at the library building for the elevator, one for day
duty and one for night duty, seven hundred and twenty dollars each,
fourteen hundred and forty dollars.

One policeman at the library building, six hundred and sixty dollars.

One night watchman at the library building, seven hundred and
eighty dollars.

One night watchman for court of appeals, seven hundred and eighty
dollars.

Two janitors at library offices in library building, six hundred and
sixty dollars each, thirteen hundred and twenty dollars.
Three engineers for the electric light and power plant, at ten hun-
dred and eighty dollars each, thirty-two hundred and forty dollars; said
engineers shall supervise and keep in order the engines and boilers and
machinery under their charge. Three firemen for the electric light and
power plant, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each, two thousand
three hundred and forty dollars. Said firemen, when on duty, shall be
under the control and supervision of the engineer in charge.

Six capitol policemen, the sum of nine hundred dollars each. five
thousand four hundred dollars, one of whom shall act as clerk to register
of land office.

Three janitors at the Capitol building, the sum of six hundred and
sixty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.

Two conductors of the elevator at the Capitol, one for day duty and
one for night duty, who shall also act as guard, nine hundred dollars each,
one thousand eight hundred dollars.

One janitor and messenger for the offices of the governor, seven hun-
dred and eighty dollars.

Telephones in public buildings, five hundred and sixty dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

Commissioner of State hospitals, salary of, two thousand dollars.

For necessary traveling expenses of commissioner while engaged in
the duty of his office, not to exceed five hundred dollars, the same to be
paid on the approval of the general board for the State hospitals. No
part of the annual appropriations for any hospital shall be used for any
expense of the commissioner.

Capitation taxes—Amount collected to be returned counties and
cities, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary.

General assembly—To pay deficit in appropriation for fiscal year
ending February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and ten, for pay of
salaries of members, officers, clerks, assistant clerks and employees, a sum
sufficient.

To pay salaries of members, officers, clerks, pages, employees, and in-
cidental expenses, a sum sufficient.

Clerk of the house of delegates, five dollars per day for every day the
said clerk does not receive ten dollars per day, a sum sufficient.

Document clerk and librarian of the senate, salary of, three dollars
per day, one thousand and ninety-five dollars.

Cost of bonds of clerks in State offices, three hundred and fifty dol-
lars. License taxes returned where local option is voted, an amount suffi-
cient.

Judiciary Department.

Supreme court of appeals—Salary of the president of the court, four
thousand seven hundred dollars.

Salaries of four associate judges, at four thousand and five hundred
dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Staunton, three hundred and twenty
dollars.
Sct Salary of the clerk of court at Wytheville, three hundred and twenty
ollars.

Salary of the reporter of the court, one thousand five hundred dollars.
a Salary of the stenographer of the court, one thousand four hundred

ollars.

For furnishing four rooms in the new portion of the library building
set apart as private offices for the judges of supreme court of appeals, the
sum of eight hundred dollars.

Circuit courts—Salaries of thirty judges, each, two thousand five
hundred dollars a year, seventy-five thousand dollars, and for such other
circuit judges as may be elected, so much as may be necessary to pay two
thousand five hundred dollars each per annum.

Salaries of the tenth judicial circuit, three thousand five hundred
dollars per year.

City courts—Salaries of judges of chancery court, law and equity
court and hustings court of the city of Richmond, and the law and
chancery court, and the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, each,
three thousand five hundred dollars, seventcen thousand and five hundred
dollars. And the salary of the judge of the law and chancery court of
the city of Roanoke, three thousand dollars.

Salaries of the respective judges of the corporation courts of the cities
of Petersburg, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Newport News, Danville, Ports-
mouth, Alexandria and Staunton, twenty-five hundred dollars each,
twenty thousand dollars.

Salary of the judge of the corporation court of the city of Manches-
ter, two thousand dollars.

Mileage of judges, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary.

Salary of the clerk of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, four
hundred dollars (acts nineteen hundred and eight, page three hundred
and ninety-nine).

Salary of the clerk of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, one
thousand dollars (section three thousand and eighty-two, Code of nine-
teen hundred and four).

Contingent expenses of courts, thirty thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

Civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, which shall include expenditures by the executive of a
public or official nature.

Civil prosecutions, to pay expenses of, five hundred dollars, or so
much thereof as my be necessary.

Ice, fuel and lights in Capitol, library building, executive mansion
and power plant, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary.

Criminal charges, including expenses of juries, witnesses and so
forth, the prison association and the negro reformatory, four hundred
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, but not more
than five hundred dollars each per year shall be paid to the jail physician
of Richmond and Norfolk.

Public printing, thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary.
Printing records of criminal cases in supreme court of appeals, seven
hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Virginia reports, to pay printing, binding, and so forth, three thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the secretary of
the Commonwealth is authorized and directed to sell the reports of the
decisions of the supreme court of appeals at the price of one dollar and
fifty cents per volume.

Re-assessment of lands—To pay expenses of, eighty thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Salaries and expenses of the commission of fisheries, the sum of forty-
five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which shall
include salaries of chairman and secretary, as provided by law creating
commission of fisheries; to compensate clerks of court for services per-
formed by them under an act entitled an act to have plats of oyster
planting grounds endorsed, abandoned, under certain conditions, and to
authorize the renting of such grounds, approved March fourteenth, nine-
teen hundred and four; and to the unsalaried members of the board of
fisheries of Virginia, the sum of four hundred dollars each for extraor-
dinary services performed by them; and also for police protection, main-
tenance of steamers and vessels, to be paid out of the oyster tax, and in no
event is any portion of it to be paid otherwise than out of said oyster tax;
and the further sum of ten thousand dollars for the purchase of boats,
provided a necessity should arise on account of the loss of any boats now
in use. ,

. To pay commissions to commissioners of revenue, examiners of
records, postage and express charges on land and property books, and so
forth, one hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof
as my be necessary.

To pay pensions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

Support of lunatics in jail and in charge of private persons, four
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State Hospitals for Insane.

Eastern—For support, one hundred and five thousand dollars; for
deficit, two thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars; for boiler and
dynamos, five thousand dollars.

Western—For support, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol-
lars; for deficit, six thousand nine hundred and six dollars and fifty-four
cents; for insurance, six thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars
and ninety-six cents.

Southwestern—For support, seventy-nine thousand dollars; for de-
ficit, forty-two hundred and twenty-three dollars; for insurance, three
thousand five hundred dollars; for renewal of plumbing and bath fix-
tures in six wards and repairs, three thousand dollars.

For building for white criminal insane, seven thousand dollars, and
two thousand dollars for new boiler.

Central—For support, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars ;
for change and extension of sewerage system, and for additional fixtures,
five thousand dollars; for insurance, three thousand dollars.
Virginia State Epileptic Colony—Thirty thousand dollars for build-
ing cottages and repairing present buildings.

Prison Association of Virginia, as supplementary fund for teaching,
clothing and general purposes of the school, twelve thousand five hun-
dred dollars. From which sum two thousand dollars shall be applied
toward payment of debt on school.

To the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, for equipment
and improvements, twenty-five hundred dollars.

Virginia School for Colored Deaf, Dumb and Blind, for support, ten
thousand dollars; for steam plant, including laundry, shops, and so forth,
ten thousand dollars.

Officers and employees of State hospitals for the insane, to be paid out
of the amounts appropriated to the institutions, respectively, as follows:

Superintendent of the Western State Hospital, two thousand five hun-
dred dollars.

Superintendent of the Central State Hospital, three thousand five
hundred dollars.

Superintendent of the Eastern State Hospital, two thousand two hun-
dred and fifty dollars.

Superintendent of the Southwestern State Hospital, two thousand
two hundred and fifty dollars.

And, when they occupy the buildings on the ground of, or buildings
belonging to the respective institutions, they shall pay therefor such
rentals as may be fixed by the boards of the respective institutions.

First and second assistant physicians of each hospital shall receive
each a salary not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

Third assistant physician of each hospital shall receive each a salary
not exceeding nine hundred dollars per annum.

Stewards of the Western and Central State Hospitals shall receive a
salary not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum.

Stewards of the Eastern and Southwestern State Hospitals shall each
receive a salary not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum.

The clerk of each hospital shall receive a salary not exceeding seven
hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

Fach clerk shall perform the duties of secretary of the board of the
hospital of which he is clerk.

The engineer of each hospital shall receive a salary not exconding
seven hundred dollars per annum.

The officers (except superintendents) of the hospitals shall receive, in
addition to the salaries specified above, their board and their lodging at
their respective hospitals, but shall not receive any additional perquisites
or emoluments.

Institutions of Learning.

Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, for support, five thousand
dollars.

State Female Normal School, for support, fifty thousand dollars;
for purchase of needed adjacent property, six thousand seven hundred
dollars.

State Normal and Industrial School for Women, at Harrisonburg,
for support, twenty-five thousand dollars; for indebtedness on account
of purchase of land and equipments, installation of water and sewer sys-
tems, thirty thousand dollars.

State Normal and Industrial School for Women, at Fredericksburg,
for building fund, fifty thousand dollars.

University of Virginia, for support, eighty thousand dollars, which
shall include the ten thousand dollars provided for by an act approved
January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (chapter one hun-
dred and thirty-six, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-six),
and upon condition that the University of Virginia shall give instruc-
tion to properly prepared white students from Virginia without charge for
tuition or university fee, in the academic department, of more than ten
dollars, which ten dollars shall cover all the items covered by the former
university fee of forty dollars, but this shall not interfere with the re-
quirements of the ten-dollar contingent deposit.

Virginia Military Institute, for support, forty thousand dollars,
which shall include the expense of the board of visitors except the adju-
tant-general and the superintendent of public instruction, whose ex-
penses shall be paid as provided by law.

Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, for support, fifty thousand
dollars, and the further sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, for the treatment of such persons as
the superintendent may contract for at the Richmond Eye Infirmary ;
and the additional sum of fifty-five hundred and forty-five dollars, which
shall include the appropriation of twenty-eight hundred and forty-five
dollars, to pay deficit by act approved-————, nineteen hundred and
ten.

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic In-
stitute, at Blacksburg, Virginia, sixty-six thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars, which shall include seven hundred and fifty dollars paid
under chapter four hundred and twenty-five, acts eighteen hundred and
ninety-five and six; six thousand dollars paid under chapter seven hun-
dred and eighty-six, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen
hundred ; and the further sum of five thousand dollars for the special pur-
pose of conducting investigations, experiments and demonstrations with
tobacco and other crops grown in rotation or in connection with tobacco ;
additional for school of mines and other equipment and betterments, six
thousand dollars.

Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, tor support, twenty thou-
sand dollars.

William and Mary College, for support, forty thousand dollars.

The State Female Normal School, the State Normal and Industrial
School for Women at Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, the University of Virginia, and William and
Mary College, may each draw from the treasury of the State, from funds
not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the sum appropriated for the
support of each of these institutions annually, a sum not to exceed one
per centum for each year’s appropriation to said institution for support,
which sum shall be used for the establishment of a State students’ loan
fund at each of the said institutions, respectively, and this sum may he
so drawn annually by each of said institutions for five years after the pas-
sage of this act.

Each of the said institutions shall, upon such terms and according to
such rules as may be prescribed by their respective boards or trustees or
visitors, make loans from the said State students’ loan fund to needy and
deserving students of talent and character from Virginia in the academie
departments of said institution for the purpose of aiding those to obtain
an education at such institutions who might not be able otherwise to do so.

The said loans shal] not exceed one hundred dollars in any one session
to the same student and shall be made to said students upon such terms as
to time and security as the authorities of the respective institutions shall
determine in each case: provided, that the rate of interest charged stu-
dents on such loans shall be four per centum per annum.

The said State students’ loan fund shall be preserved from depletion
by the said institution, and together with the repayments and accretions
thereto, shall be held and used for the purpose specified in this act and
no other, and each of the said institutions shall annually, not later than
July in each year, file in the office of the State superintendent of public
instruction a statement in detail showing for the year past the amount
received by said fund, the loans made, to whom made and upon what
terms, the amount of the corpus of said fund, the amounts repaid to said
funds and from whom, and any other information deemed pertinent by
the institution so reporting, or which may have been requested by the
State superintendent of public instruction.

Public schools—Such sum as will be sufficient to pay the amount
required by section fifteen hundred and seven, Code of Virginia, to be
applied to the support of the public free schools; but in making said cal-
culation under section fifteen hundred and seven of the gross amount of
all funds applicable to public free schools for the ensuing year, said calcu-
lation shall be based upon the land and property books of the several
commissioners of the revenue for said year; and, when said books have
not been received in time, the auditor of public accounts shall base said
calculation upon the commissioner’s books of the next preceding year,
but in making said calculation in each case he shall deduct from the gross
amount so ascertained the approximate amount of all such taxes which
are assessed, but which may not be collected, based on the collection of
such taxes made for the preceding year, and he shall include in said esti-
mate all of such taxes returned delinquent, thereafter collected in each
year, the amount shown by said calculation to be paid shall be paid one-
half on the tenth day of November, and the residue on tenth day of
February of each year; and the further sum of five hundred thousand
dollars, this latter sum to be turned over to the State board of education,
and by that board apportioned, as prescribed by the Constitution, to the
public free schools of the several counties and cities of the common-
wealth, except, however, eighteen thousand dollars thereof, which said
board is authorized to expend in the maintenance of the summer normal
schools: provided, that twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much of it as
may be necessary, may be used under rules and regulations of the State
board of education for the encouragement and maintenance of rural
graded schools of two, three and four rooms: provided, that no such
school shal] receive more than two hundred dollars: provided further,
that any school receiving aid under this plan shall not receive aid from
the high school fund.

For high schools, to be expended as per act creating public high
schools, one hundred thousand dollars: provided, that so much of the six
hundred thousand dollars herein provided for the support of public
schools and high schools as may be necessary, not to exceed thirty thou-
sand dollars, shall be devoted to the establishment and support of depart-
ments of agriculture, domestic economy and manual training in at least
one high school in each congressional district of the State, to be con-
ducted under such rules and regulations as the State board of education
and the president of the Virginia College of Agriculture and Polytechnic
Institute may prescribe.

For normal instruction in high schools, fifteen thousand dollars
(chapter sixty-seven, acts nineteen hundred and eight).

For libraries in public schools in cities, towns and rural districts, five
thousand dollars (chapter three hundred and sixteen, acts nineteen hun-
dred and eight).

For expenses of commission to devise methods for management, and
so forth, of educational institutions, five hundred dollars (chapter two
hundred and seventy-two, acts nineteen hundred and eight). The said
commission shall use such part of this appropriation as it may deem
proper to investigate and report some practicable and advisable plan for
the higher education of women by the State, and in this connection shall
consider and pass upon the provisions of senate bill number ninety-two,
which is hereby referred to said commission for such consideration.

For school teachers’ pension fund, five thousand dollars, as provided
by acts of nineteen hundred and ten.

For Confederate Soldiers’ Home, for annuity, forty-six thousand dol-
lars, which shall include all sums provided by law.

To pay the interest on the public debt, funded under the acts ap-
proved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, February
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, January thirty-first,
eighteen hundred and _ ninety-four, and January’ twenty-third.
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and the amendments thereto, a suffi-
cient sum for that purpose is appropriated.

Sinking fund—For the sinking fund, one hundred and twenty thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of the act approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, entitled an act to provide for settlement of the public debt o:
Virginia, and so forth.

‘Cattle quarantine, three thousand five dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary.

Crop pest commissioners—AI] moneys received into the treasury from
certificates of registration for selling nursery stock, as provided in sec-
tion twelve, chapter two hundred and seven, acts nineteen hundred and
two and nineteen hundred and three, and the sum of six thousand dollars.
which shall include and be in lieu of the appropriation made in said act
to be used exclusively for the purpose of the commissioners.

State board of health, forty thousand dollars, of which sum eighteer
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be usec
for the support of Catawba Sanitarium, or so much thereof as may be
necessary; and the further sum of forty thousand dollars for building
and improvements at Catawba Sanitarium. !

Commissioners to promote uniformity of legislation, one hundred and
fifty dollars, or so much thereof as my be necessary.

Delinquent lands—To pay expenses of sales and fees to clerks, six
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Erroneous assessments of taxes—An amount sufficient to pay amounts
to be refunded under orders of courts. Expenses of registration of mar-
riages, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Military fund—That proportion of the receipts into the State treas-
ury that is provided by section three hundred and seventy-five of the
Code, as amended by an act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen
hundred and eight.

Military contingent funds—To pay military forces when aiding the
civil authorities, as prescribed by section three hundred and five of the
Code of Virginia, a sum sufficient therefor.

To pay for lithographing stamps and seals to be used by the notaries
and clerks of court, one hundred and twenty dollars.

Good roads—State highway commissioner—Salary of State highway
commissioner, three thousand dollars; salary of assistant highway com-
missioner, two thousand dollars; salary of clerk of highway commis-
sioner, one thousand two hundred dollars; for contingent and other ex-
penses, eight thousand six hundred dollars.

To pay expenses convict road force under act approved March six-
teenth, nineteen hundred and six, known as Lassiter-Withers act, seventy
thousand dollars.

Roads—For State money aid for the improvement of public roads,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended as provided by
chapter seventy-six, acts of nineteen hundred and eight.

To pay balance due on contract for erection of addition to State
library building, work on basement of old building, driveways, and so
forth, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to
be paid upon approval of the commission in charge of the erection of said
building.

To George W. Anderson and Sons, for special appropriation for floor
coverings and shades for annex to library building, one thousand and
ten dollars and sixty cents.

Board of pharmacy, six thousand dollars (chapter two hundred and
ninety-one, acts nineteen hundred and eight).

Board of charities and corrections, five thousand six hundred dollars
(chapter two hundred and seventy-six, acts nineteen hundred and eight).

Virginia military records—A secretary, who shall be a Confederate
soldier, or the son of a Confederate soldier, shall be appointed by the
governor, and whose duties shall be to accurately and legibly transcribe
and record, in well bound, durable and large record books, all the names
of such soldiers, sailors and marines, and all muster rolls, records, and
other material matter, showing the officers and enlisted men of the sev-
eral companies, battalions, regiments and other military organizations
from Virginia, in the military, naval or marine service of the Confed-
erate States—whether regulars, volunteers, militia, reserves, home guards,
or local troops—using all the rolls and every other authentic and reliable
data that has been collected in the past six years for such transcribing
and recording—and as well and in addition all other information as to
such soldiers, sailors and marines.

He shall, in recording and transcribing these said rolls, et cetera,
into the record books, devote one or more pages to each separate com-
pany and shall classify companies as to the battalions, regiments and
brigades, divisions and corps to which they respectively belong. He shall
have and use separate record books for each branch of the service of the
Confederate States army and navy—that is to say, a record book or books,
each for the artillery arm, the cavalry arm, and infantry arm of the Con-
federate States army, and the necessary book or books for the naval
branch of the service. He is hereby authorized to purchase suitable
books, stationery, et cetera, and the sum of three hundred dollars is
hereby appropriated for such books and twelve hundred dollars for trav-
eling expenses of the assistant, who is hereinafter provided for.

The said appointee of the governor shall be known as the secretary
of Virginia military records, and during the year nineteen hundred nad
ten shall transcribe and record the aforesaid rolls, et cetera, in the books
as aforesaid, classifying the different branches of the service, and so re-
cording the individual names of the soldiers, sailors and marines in said
records that a condensed history of each individual may and shall appear
opposite each name, respectively, setting forth when he enlisted, where he
enlisted, how long he served, whether wounded or imprisoned and when,
whether killed or died in service.

The governor of Virginia is hereby further authorized to appoint an
assistant as clerk for the said secretary.

The salary of the secretary shall be two thousand dollars for the year
nineteen hundred and ten, to be paid in monthly installments upon the
warrant of the auditor of public accounts; and the salary of the assistant
shall be fifteen hundred dollars for the year nineteen hundred and ten,
to be paid in monthly installments.

The governor of Virginia shal] have the power under this act to re-
move the said secretary for proper cause at any time, and to appoint
another secretary to perform the duties of the office; and he shall like-
wise have the power to remove the said assistant for cause and to appoint
another in his stead. He shall also have authority at any time to inspect
the work done and being done and to examine the books, rolls and records
of the office; and shall require regular reports to be made to him at such
times as he shall order and direct.

There is hereby appropriated the sum of five thousand dollars for the
year beginning with and on January eighth, nineteen hundred and ten,
to pay the said salaries and to defray the necessary expenses of this office
or department, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to be paid out as provided in this act.

The department of the secretary of Virginia military records shall
cease and determine, as a separate department, on the twenty-eighth day
of February, nineteen hundred and eleven, and all books, papers, rolls,
manuscripts, letters, files, records, et cetera, and all office fixtures and
furniture shall at once be taken in charge by the adjutant general of the
State militia, who shall have charge and custody of all things belonging
to and that in any way pertain to said office or department.
Beginning March first, nineteen and eleven, the adjutant general of
Virginia shall assign one clerk, who shall be known as the clerk of Vir-
ginia military records, whose salary shall be eighteen hundred dollars
per annum, to be paid out of the military fund of this State, and whose
duties shall be to continue to collect data, rolls, and other information
pertaining to the service of soldiers, sailors and marines of Virginia as
aforesaid, and to complete the transcribing and recording into the afore-
said record books of all such authentic history, rolls and other data—all
under the direction and authority of the adjutant general, in whose de-
partment the aforementioned department or office of secretary of Vir-
ginia military records shall thus be merged and become a part thereof.

State geological survey, ten thousand dollars (chapter seventy-five,
acts nineteen hundred and eight).

To the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls, twelve thou-
sand dollars, which shall include the amount appropriated by act of nine-
teen hundred and ten.

To the auditing committee for its expenses under the provisions of
section sixty-eight of the Constitution, which shall include the entire
appropriation made under an act entitled an act to establish a uniform
system of bookkeeping and accounting and for the appointment of a State
accountant and to provide for the examination of the books of all officers
entrusted with the collections and receipt, custody and disbursement of
the revenues of the State, a sum which shall not exceed five thousand
dollars. The governor shall have the power to employ an attorney by
contract at any time to represent the State or any department of the
State, and the agreed compensation of such attorney shall be paid out of
any moneys not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed five thousand dol-
lars in any one year.

For the fiscal year ending on the twenty-ninth of February, nineteen
hundred and twelve.

(governor, salary of, five thousand dollars.

Governor’s secretary, salary of, two thousand dollars.

Governor’s assistant secretary, who shall be the governor’s stenogra-
pher, salary of, not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars.

Labor at the executive mansion, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, salary of, four thousand dollars.

Attorney-general, assistant to, salary of, twenty-five hundred dollars;
stenographer, salary of, twelve hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, contingent expenses of office, exclusive of mileage,
not exceeding four hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, for mileage at ten cents per mile for every mile of
necessary travel on business of the State, a sum sufficient therefor, not
exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, salary of, two thousand eight hun-
dred dollars, and he shall receive ten per centum of the amount of sales
of publications from his office; all fees of office shall be paid into treasury
monthly.

Secretary of the Commonwealth, three clerks in office, three thousand
eight hundred dollars.
Secretary of the Commonwealth, contingent expenses of office, not
exceeding six hundred dollars.

To the secretary of the Commonwealth for rent of storage room for
State publications, a sum sufficient not exceeding four hundred dollars;
for janitor and messenger, six hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, salary of, four thousand dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, clerks in office, fifteen thousand and fifty
dollars, and the further sum of three hundred dollars as supplement to
salary of chief bookkeeper.

Auditor of public accounts, receiving and forwarding clerk and mes-
senger, one thousand four hundred dollars. Additional clerk, who shall
have charge of the collection of franchise tax and registration fee, one
thousand two hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of office, not exceed-
ing one thousand two hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, file cases and office equipment, five hun-
dred dollars.

Janitor for office of auditor of public accounts, seven hundred and
eighty dollars.

Auditor (second), salary of, two thousand five hundred dollars and
commissions allowed by law.

Auditor (second), clerks in office, first clerk eighteen hundred dol-
lars; second clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one
thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars.

Auditor (second), additional clerk, who shall be an expert book-
keeper, eighteen hundred dollars.

Auditor (second), contingent expenses of office, not exceeding three
hundred dollars.

‘Treasurer, salary of, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and com-
missions allowed by law.

State treasurer’s chief clerk, salary of, two thousand dollars.

Treasurer, clerks in office, which shall include the compensation of
the funding clerk under funding acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-two
and eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seven thousand dollars.

Treasurer, contingent expenses of office, not exceeding three hundred
and fifty dollars.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of, two thousand dollars.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of clerk to, one thousand
two hundred dollars.

Superintendent of public printing, contingent fund, three hundred
dollars. ,

Register of land office and superintendent of public buildings, salarv
of, twenty-one hundred dollars, which shall be his compensation for all
his services, and the fees received by him shall be paid into the treasury
of the State.

Register of land office, contingent expenses of office, one thousand five
hundred dollars, which shall be expended by said register with due re-
gard to the walks, trees, grass and shrubbery of the Capitol Square, and
the protection and feeding of the squirrels, and two thousand dollars, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, for repairs and keeping in order
public buildings and the Lee Monument grounds, and such additiona|
sum as may be necessary for the due and proper insurance of the property
under his charge; an itemized annual report of all his expenditures shall
be made by said register to the governor.

Penitentiary.

Salary of superintendent of penitentiary, two thousand two hundred
and fifty dollars.

Salary of surgeon at penitentiary, one thousand eight hundred dol-
lars.

Salary of assistant superintendent at penitentiary, one thousand two
hundred dollars.

Salaries of four keepers at penitentiary, each nine hundred dollars,
three thousand six hundred dollars.

Salaries of clerks at the penitentiary, bookkeeper fifteen hundred dol-
lars, Bertillon clerk one thousand two hundred dollars; recording clerk,
nine hundred dollars.

Salary of matron at penitentiary, six hundred dollars.

Salaries of five directors of the penitentiary, at the rate of three dol-
lars for every day’s attendance on the board: provided, that no director
shall receive more than two hundred dollars per annum, the sum of one
thousand dollars.

Salaries of interior and exterior guards at the penitentiary, not to
exceed fifty-one in number (not to be paid when absent on furlough for
more than fifteen days in any year, whether sick or otherwise ; substitute
guards shall receive the same pay when employed as the regularly em-
ployed guard), each seven hundred and eighty dollars, thirty-nine thou-
sand seven hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary.

For expenses of operating and repairing electric chair, two thousand
five hundred dollars.

For transportation of criminals to and from the penitentiary, eight
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State Farm.

Such guards as may be necessary at the State Farm, not exceeding
twenty-two, to be appointed by the superintendent thereof, their compen-
sation to be, each, thirty dollars per month and their board, each guard
to be entitled to fifteen days’ vacation annually without deduction of pay,
seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary.

Surgeon at State Farm, six hundred dollars, and in addition thereto
poard for himeelf and horse.

Superintendent at State Farm, one thousand dollars, and in addition
shereto board for himself and family.

Penitentiary—For supplies of food, clothing, ordinary repairs, extra
ruards, and incidental expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so
nuch thereof as may be neceseary.

State Farm—For supplies of food, clothing, ordinary repairs, extra
ruards and incidental expenses, the proceeds of all sales from the State
“arm, which shall be paid into the State treasury, and, in addition, eigh-
een thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
State corporation commission—Salaries of three commissioners, each
the sum of four thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars, and the fur-
ther sum of five hundred dollars to the chairmn of said commission for
his services, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Salary of clerk of the commission, two thousand five hundred dollars,
in addition to fees provided by law; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars;
statistical clerk, one thousand eight /hundred dollars; assessment clerk,
one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, each one thousand two
hundred dollars; bailiff, one thousand two hundred dollars; three stenog-
raphers, each one thousand two hundred dollars, three thousand six hun-
dred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; janitor and assistant mes-
senger, nine hundred dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses of the commission, eleven
thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
which shall include expenses in connection with the assessment of min-
eral lands.

Commissioner of agriculture and immigration, the sum of two thou-
sand eight hundred dollars, which shall be in full for his services, but all
fees of office and all fees accruing shall be paid into the treasury; to the
Virginia State Horticulture Society, one thousand dollars for the pur-
pose now provided by Jaw in an act entitled an act making an appropria-
tion for the benefit of the Virginia Horticultural Society, approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, which with all other ex-
penses of the board of agriculture shall be paid from the fees and taxes
collected from fertilizers, including ten fertilizer inspectors, one from
each congressional district, who shall be paid the sum of seventy-five
dollars per month while employed, and their expenses, if sufficient for
that purpose, if not, they shall be paid pro rata from said funds, but in
no event shall any part of such salaries or expenses be paid out of the pub-
lic treasury, if in excess of such taxes and fees collected on fertilizers ;
should there be any excess from said said taxes and fees on fertilizers, the
same shall be appropriated as provided by law. Seventy-five hundred
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry into effect the law
creating a dairy and food commissioner. To the department of agriculture
and immigration the further sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, to be used
for the special development of horticulture. To the State board of agri-
culture, to be used to aid Virginia State Truckers’ Association, five thou-
sand dollars.

Superintendent of public instruction, the sum of thirty-five hundred
dollars, and his necessary traveling expenses while engaged in the duties
of his office (to be approved by the board of education, not to exceed in
the aggregate seven hundred dollars in one year).

Commissioner of labor, salary of two thousand dollars, and for the
purposes of his office six thousand seven hundred dollars.

Adjutant-general, salary of, three thousand dollars, which shall in-
clude the sum now allowed by law, all of which shall be paid out of the
military fund.

State librarian, salary of, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Assistant State librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars.

Reference librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Stenographer in State library, seven hundred and fifty dollars, and
salary of cataloguer, nine hundred dollars, and to pay assistant janitor
six hundred dollars, and fifteen hundred dollars for book stacks, and one
thousand dollars for restoring pictures in portrait gallery. Salaries of
such other assistants and expenses for publishing the Journal of the
House of Burgesses, and for traveling libraries, six thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary. .

Doorkeeper, who shall also act as janitor to the library, seven hun-
dred and eighty dollars.

Two conductors at the library building for the elevator, one for day
duty and one for night duty, seven hundred and twenty dollars each, the
sum of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

One policeman at the library building, six hundred and sixty dollars.

One night watchman at the library building seven hundred and eighty
dollars.

One night watchman for the court of appeals, seven hundred and
eighty dollars.

Two janitors at library offices in library building, six hundred and
sixty dollars each, the sum of one thousand three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Three engineers for the electric light and power plant, at ten hundred
and eighty dollars each; said engineers shall supervise and keep in order
the engines and boilers and machinery under their charge.

Three firemen for the electric light and power plant, at seven hun-
dred and eighty dollars each, who, while on duty, shall be under the con-
trol and supervision of the engineer in charge.

Six capitol policemen, nine hundred dollars each, one of whom shall
act as clerk to register of land office.

Three janitors at capitol building, the sum of six hundred and sixty
dollars each.

Two conductors of the elevator at the Capitol, one for day duty and
one for night, who shall also act as guards, nine hundred dollars each.

One janitor and messenger for the offices of the governor, seven hun-
dred and eighty dollars.

Telephones in public buildings, five hundred and sixty dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

Commissioner of State hospitals, salary of, two thousand dollars.

For necessary traveling expenses of commissioner while engaged in
the duties of his office, not to exceed five hundred dollars, the same to be
paid on the approval of the general board for the State hospitals. No
part of the annual appropriation for any hospital shall be used for any
expenses of the commissioner.

Capitation taxes, amount collected to be returned counties and cities,
one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary.

General Assembly.

To pay salaries of members, clerks, assistant clerks, officers, pages,
employees and incidental expenses, and also for mileage of members, offi-
cers, and employees, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary.
Clerk of the house of delegates, five dollars per day for every dav the
said clerk does not receive ten dollars per day, a sum sufficient.

Document clerk and librarian of the senate, salary of, three dollars
per day, one thousand and ninety-five dollars.

Cost of bonds of clerks in State offices, three hundred and fifty dollars.

License taxes returned where local option is voted, an amount sufh-
cient.

Judiciary Department.

Supreme court of appeals, salary of the president of the court, four
thousand seven hundred dollars.

Salaries of four associate judges, at four thousand five hundred dol-
lars each, eighteen thousand dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Staunton, three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Salary of the clerk of court at Wytheville, three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Salary of the reporter of the court, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Salary of the stenographer of the court, one thousand four hundred
dollars.

Circut Courts.

Salaries of thirty judges, each, two thousand five hundred dollars a
year, seventy-five thousand dollars, and for such other circuit judges as
may be elected so much as may be necessary to pay two thousand five
hundred dollars each per annum.

Salary of the judge of the tenth judicial circuit, three thousand five
hundred dollars a year.

City Courts.

Salaries of judges of chancery court, law and equity court and hust-
ings court of the city of Richmond, and the law and chancery court and
the corporation court of the city of Norfolk, each, three thousand five
hundred dollars, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, and the salary
of the judge of the Jaw and chancery court of the city of Roanoke, three
thousand dollars.

Salaries of the judges of the corporation or hustings court of the
cities of Petersburg, Lynchburg, Roanoke, Portsmouth, Danville, Alex-
andria, Staunton and Newport News, each, two thousand five hundred
dollars, twenty thousand dollars.

Salary of the judge of the corporation court of the city of Manchester,
two thousand dollars.

Mileage of judges, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary.

Salary of clerk of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, four hun-
dred dollars (acts of nineteen hundred and eight, page tnree hundred and
ninety-nine).

Salary of the clerk of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, one
thousand dollars (section three thousand and eighty-two, Code of nine-
teen hundred and four).
Contingent expenses of courts, thirty thousand dollars, or so mucl
thereof as may be necessary.

Civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars, which shall include ex
penditures by the executive of a public or official nature, or so mucl
thereof as may be necessary.

Civil prosecutions, to pay expenses of, five hundred dollars, or s
much thereof as may be necessary

Tce, fuel and light in Capitol and library buildings, the executive man
sion and power plant, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as ma’
be necessary.

Criminal charges, including expenses of juries, witnesses, and so fortk
the prison association and the negro reformatory, four hundred thousan
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; but not more than fiv
hundred dollars each per year shall be paid to the jail physician of Rich
mond and Norfolk.

Public printing, thirty-two thousand dollars, or so much thereof a
may be necessary.

Printing records of criminal] cases in supreme court of appeals, seve!
hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Virginia reports, to pay printing, binding, and so forth, three thou
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Oysters.

Salaries and expenses of commission of fisheries, a sum of forty-fiv
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which shall in
elude salaries of chairman and secretary, as provided by law, creating |
commission of fisheries, to compensate clerks of courts for services per
formed by them under an act entitled an act to have plats of oyster plant
ing grounds endorsed, abandoned under certain conditions, and to author
ize the renting of such grounds, approved March fourteenth, ninetee:
hundred and four; and also for police protection, maintenance of steam
ers and vessels, to be paid out of the oyster tax, and in no event is an
portion of it to be otherwise than out of said oyster tax.

To pay commissions to commissioners of revenue, examiners of rec
ords, postage and express charges, on land and property books, and s
forth, one hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereo
as may be necessary.

To pay pensions, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so mucl
thereof as may be necessary.

Support of lunatics in jail and in charge of private persons, fou
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

State Hcspitals for Insane.

Eastern—For support, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars

Western—For support, one hundred and thirty-five thousand fiv
hundred dollars, and the further sum of thirteen thousand dollars fo
infirmary, baths, et cetera.

Southwestern—For support, ninety thousand dollars, and the furthe
sam of two thousand dollars for male and female w ards for tubercula
ya tients.
Central—For support, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars,
and the further sum of seven thousand dollars for a building for the
criminal insane.

Virginia State Epileptic Colony—For the support of not less than one
hundred inmates and for development and equipment, fifty thousand
dollars.

Colored Asylum for Deaf and Blind—For support of, fifteen thousand
dollars, and for improvements, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

Prison Association of Virginia, twelve thousand fiye hundred dollars,
as a supplementary fund for teaching, clothing and general purposes of
school, from which sum two thousand dollars shall be applied toward pay-
ment of debt on schoolhouse.

To the Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia, for equipment
and improvements, three thousand dollars.

Officers and employees of the State hospitals for the insane, to be paid
out of the amounts appropriated to the institutions, respectively, as fol-
lows:

Superintendent of the Western State Hospital, two thousand five
hundred dollars.

Superintendent of the Central State Hospital, three thousand five
hundred dollars.

Superintendent of the Eastern State Hospital, two thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars.

Superintendent of the Southwestern State Hospital, two thousand
two hundred and fifty dollars.

And where they occupy buildings on the ground or buildings belong-
ing to the respective institutions, they shall pay therefor such rental as
may be fixed by the respective institutions.

First and second assistant physician of each hospital shall receive each
a salary of not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

Third assistant physician of each hospital shall receive each a salary of
not exceeding nine hundred dollars.

Stewards of the Western and Central State Hospitals shall each receive
a salary not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum.

Stewards of the Eastern and Southwestern State Hospitals shall each
receive a salary not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum.

The clerk of each hospital shal] receive a salary not exceeding seven
hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Each clerk shall perform the
duties of secretary to the board of the hospital of which he is a clerk.

The engineer of each hospital shall receive a salary not exceeding
seven hundred dollars per annum.

The officers (except superintendent) of the hospital shall receive, in
addition to the salaries specified above, their board and lodging of their
respective hospitals, but shall not receive any additional perquisites or
emoluments.

Institutions of Learning.

Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, for support of, five thou-
sand dollars.

State Female Normal School, at Farmville, for support, fifty-five
thousand dollars, and for an infirmary, fifteen thousand dollars.
State Normal and Industrial School for Women, at Harrisonburg, for
support, thirty thousand dollars, and the further sum of thirty-five thou-
sand dollars for dormitory and equipment.

State Normal and Industrial School for Women, at Fredericksburg,
for building and equipment, seventy thousand dollars, and the further
sum of fifteen thousand dollrs for support.

University of Virginia, for support, eighty thousand dollars, which
shall include the ten thousand dollars provided for by an act approved
January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (chapter one hun-
dred and thirty-six, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-five and ninety-
81X), upon condition that the University of Virginia shall give instruc-
tions to properly prepared white students from Virginia, without charge,
for tuition or university fee in the academic departments of more than
ten dollars, which ten dollars shall cover all the items covered by the
former university fee of forty dollars, but this shall not interfere
with the ten dollars’ contingent deposit. For support of hospital, ten
thousand dollars, for the free treatment, maintenance and care of Vir-
ginia patients.

Virginia Military Institute, for support, forty thousand dollars, which
shall include the expenses of the board of visitors, except the adjutant-
general and the superintendent of public instruction, whose expenses
shall be paid as provided by law.

Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, for support, fifty thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the further sum of
one thousand five hundred dollars for the treatment of such persons as
the superintendent may contract for at the Richmond Eye Infirmary.

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic In-
stitute, Blacksburg, Virginia, sixty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty
dollars, which shall include seven hundred and fifty dollars paid under
chapter four hundred and twenty-five, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-
five and six; six thousand dollars paid under chapter seven hundred and
eighty-six, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred,
and the further sum of five thousand dollars for the special purpose of
conducting investigations, experiments, and demonstrations with to-
bacco and other crops, grown in rotation or in connection with tobacco;
additional for school of mines and other equipment and betterments, six
thousand dollars.

Virginia Normal and Industria] Institute, for support, twenty thou-
eand dollars.

William and Mary College, for support, forty thousand dollars, and
for plant to supply heat and light to college the further sum of fifteen
thousand dollars.

For the establishment of the State Normal and Industrial School for
White Women, at Radford, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; for
the purpose of the said schoo! there shall be paid out of the public treas-
ury, from time to time, such sums as shall be appropriated to pay inci-
dental expenses, erection of necessary buildings, the salaries of officers
and teachers, and to maintain the efficiency of said school: provided, that
the Commonwealth shall not in any instance be responsible for any debts
contracted or expenditure made by the said institution in excess of the
appropriation made, which shall not be available prior to January first,
nineteen hundred and twelve.

The State Female Normal School, the State Normal and Industrial
Schools for Women at Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, the University of Virginia, and William and
Mary College, may each draw from the treasury of the State, from funds
not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the sum appropriated for the
support of each of these institutions annually, a sum not to exceed one
per centum for each year’s ppropriation to said institution for support,
which sum shall be used for the establishment of a State students’ loan
fund, at each of the said institutions, respectively, and this said sum may
be so drawn annually by each of said institutions for five years after the
passage of this act.

Each of the said institutions shall, upon such terms and according to
such rules as may be prescribed by their respective boards or trustees or
visitors, make loans from the said State students’ loan fund to needy and
deserving students of talent and character from Virginia in the academic
departments of said institution, for the purpose of aiding those to obtain
an education at such institutions who might not be able otherwise to do so.

The said loans shall not exceed one hundred dollars in any one ses-
sion to the same student and shall be made to said students upon such
terms as to time and security as the authorities of the respective institu-
tions shall determine in each case: provided, that the rate of interest
charged students on such loans shall be four per centum per annum.

The said State students’ loan fund shall be preserved from depletion
by the said institution, and, together with the repayments and accretions
thereto, shall be held and used for the purpose specified in this act, and
no other, and each of the said institutions shall annually, not later than
July in each year thereafter, file in the office of the State superintendent
of public instruction a statement in detail, showing for the year past
the amount received by said fund, the loans made, to whom made, and
upon what terms, the amount of the corpus of said fund, the amounts
repaid to said funds and from whom, and any other information deemed
pertinent by the institution so reporting, or which may have been re-
quested by the State superintendent of public instruction.

Public Schools.

Such sums as will be sufficient to pay the amount required by section
fifteen hundred and seven, Code of Virginia, to be applied to the support
of the public free schools.

But in making said calculations under said section one thousand five
hundred and seven of the gross amount of all funds applicable to public
free schools for the ensuing year, said calculations shall be based upon the
land and property books of the several commissioners of the revenue for
said year; and when said books have not been received in time, the audi-
tor of public accounts shall base said calculations upon the commissioner’s
books of the next preceding year, but in making said calculation in each
case he shall deduct from the gross amount so ascertained the approxi-
mate amount of all such taxes which are assessed, but which may not be
collected, based on the collection of such taxes made for the preceding
year, and he shall include in said estimate all such taxes returned delin-
quent thereafter collected in each year, the amount shown by such calcu-
lations to be paid shall be paid one-half on the tenth day of November
and the residue on the tenth day of February of each year, and the fur-
ther sum of five hundred thousand dollars, this latter sum to be turned
over to the State board of education, and by that board apportioned as
prescribed by the Constitution to the public free schools of the several
counties and cities of the Commonwealth, except, however, eighteen thou-
sand dollars thereof, which said board is authorized to expend in the main-
tenance of the summer normal! institutions: provided, that twenty-five
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used
under rules and regulations of the State board of education for the en-
couragement and maintenance of rural graded schools of two, three and
four rooms: provided, that no such school shall receive more than two
hundred dollars: provided further, that any school receiving aid under
this plan shall not receive aid from the high school fund.

For high school, to be expended as per act creating public high schools,
one hundred thousand dollars: provided, that so much of the six hun-
dred thousand dollars herein provided for the support of the public and
high schools, as may be necessary, not to exceed thirty thousand dollars,
shall be devoted to the establishment and support of departments of agri-
culture, domestic economy and manual training in at least one high school
in each congressional district of the State, to be conducted under such
rules and regulations as the State board of education and the president of
the Virginia College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Institute may pre-
scribe.

For normal instruction in high schools, fifteen thousand dollars
(chapter sixty-seven of acts nineteen hundred and eight).

For libraries in public school in cities, towns and rural districts, five
thousand dollars (chapter three hundred and sixteen, acts of nineteen
hundred and eight).

For expenses of commission to devise methods for management, et
cetera, of educational institutions, five hundred dollars (chapter two
hundred and seventy-two, acts nineteen hundred and eight).

For school teachers’ pension fund as provided by acts of nineteen hun-
dred and ten, five thousand dollars.

For equipment and improvement at agricultural high schools in the
congressional districts, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be apportioned
and expended as the State board of education and president of the Vir-
ginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute
may prescribe, unless otherwise provided by law.

Confederate Soldiers’ Home, for annuity, forty-six thousand dollars,
which shall include all sums provided by law.

To pay the interest on the public debt funded under the acts of Feb-
ruary the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, February twenty-
eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, January thirty-first, eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, and January twenty-third, eighteen hundred
and ninety-six, and the amendments thereto, a sum sufficient for that pur-
pose is appropriated.
Sinking Fund.

For the sinking fund, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of an act
approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled
an act to provide for settlement of public debt of Virginia, et cetera.

Cattle quarantine, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

Crop pest commissioners, all moneys received into the treasury from
certificate of registration for selling nursery stock, as provided in section
twelve, chapter two hundred and seven, acts nineteen hundred and two
and nineteen hundred and three, and the sum of six thousand dollars,
which shall include and be in lieu of the appropriations made in said act,
to be used exclusively for the purposes of the commission, six thousand
dollars.

State board of health, forty-seven thousand dollars, of which sum
twenty-seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
shall be used for the support of the Catawba Sanitariam.

Commissioners to promote uniformity of legislation, expenses of, one
hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Delinquent lands, to pay expenses of sales of, fees to clerks, eight
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Erroneous assessment of taxes, an amount sufficient to pay amounts
to be refunded under orders of court.

Expenses of registration of marriages, five hundred dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.

Military fund, that proportion of the receipts into the treasury as is
provided by section three hundred and seventy-five of the Code, as
amended by an act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred
and eight.

Military contingent fund, to pay the mliitary forces, when aiding the
civil authority, as prescribed by section three hundred and five of the
Code of Virginia, a sum sufficient therefor.

Good roads—State highway commission—Salary of State highway
commissioner, three thousand dollars; salary of assistant highway com-
missioner, two thousand dollars; salary of clerk of highway commis-
sioner, one thousand two hundred dollars; for contingent and all other
expenses, eight thousand six hundred dollars.

For State money aid to public roads, to be expended as provided by
chapter seventy-six, acts of nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred
thousand dollars.

For convict road force, under act approved March sixth, nineteen
hundred and six, known as Lassiter-Withers act, seventy thousand dollars.

To pay for lithographing stamps and seals to be used by notaries and
clerks of courts, one hundred and twenty dollars.

Board of pharmacy, six thousand dollars, as provided by chapter two
hundred and ninety-two, acts of nineteen hundred and eight.

Board of charities and corrections, six thousand five hundred dollars.

Virginia military records, for clerk in office of adjutant-general, as
provided in this act, eighteen hundred dollars, to be paid out of the mili-
tary fund.
State geological survey, ten thousand dollars, chapter seventy-five of
acts of nineteen hundred and eight.

To the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls, which shall in-
clude amount appropriated by acts of nineteen hundred and ten, twelve
thousand dollars.

Expenses of auditing committee, five thousand dollars, in which sum
shall be included all moneys provided for salaries and expenses under acts
of nineteen hundred and ten, providing a State accountant, and so forth.

The clerk of the house of delegates shall have enrolled such acts as the
original of which have been lost, and the same shall be signed by the gov-
ernor, and when so signed shall be accepted and certified as the original
rolls; and he shall, at such time and place as he may elect, make an index
of the rolls from eighteen hundred and sixty-two up to and including the
rolls of nineteen hundred and ten, and two thousand copies of the same as
part two and the index previously prepared by him as part one shall be
printed and bound together by the superintendent of public printing;
fifteen hundred copies shall be sold by the secretary of the Common-
wealth at such price as may be fixed by the authority authorized to fix the
price of State publications, and the proceeds from such sale to be paid
into the treasury to the credit of the general fund, and the remaining
five hundred copies shall be distributed as follows: One copy to each mem-
ber of the general assembly, and one to each department of the State gov-
ernment, and the remainder to be used in exchange with libraries, public
institutions and persons, under the direction of the clerk of the house
of delegates and superintendent of public printing. The cost of the en-
rollment shall be paid by the auditor of public accounts upon the war-
rant of the clerk of the house of delegates, and the printing and binding,
upon the warrant of the superintendent of public printing, and an
amount necessary to cover all of which is hereby appropriated, not.exceed-
ing twelve hundred dollars. The clerk of the house of delegates may em-
ploy clerical assistance in the extra work herein directed not exceeding
two hundred and fifty dollars.

So much of the public revenue as may be received into the treasury
and surplus of all other appropriations made previous to this date, unex-
pended, within the two fiscal years hereinbefore provided for, and all
other moneys not otherwise appropriated by law, shall constitute a gen-
eral fund to defray all such expenses authorized by law as are not herein
particularly provided for.

The annuities of the public institutions of the State, and to the State
hospitals for the insane, shall be paid in monthly installments.

It shall not be lawful for the auditor of public accounts to pay the
State hospitals or any other institutions any money except as is pro-
vided for in this act, or in pursuance of some act making a special appro-
priation therefor. And the proper officer of each public institution of the
State, for which appropriation is made, shall in his annual report give an
itemized account of the expenditures of such appropriations for such in-
stitutions; and every officer of this State for whose department appro-
priations are hereby made shall make annually a report covering an item-
ized account of the expenditures of such appropriation, and of all other
sums received by such institutions, departments or officers for anv source,
and such reports and accounts shal] embrace the expenditure of all funds
appropriated, including the interest on bonds held by such institutions
and hereinbefore directed to be paid to them; which reports shall be for-
warded to the general assembly and laid before both houses thereof on the
first day of each session thereof. |
2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.