Chap. 3.—An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental
expenses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the
same.

Approved January 20, 1912.

Whereas, there are certain contingent and incidental ex-
penses of the general assembly which cannot be provided for
specifically and which must be paid; and

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

Whereas, section one hundred and eighty-six of the Consti-
tution provides that no money shall be paid out of the State
treasury except in pursuance of appropriations made by law, and
section fifty of the Constitution 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.

2. It is hereby made the duty of the clerk of the senate and
clerk of the house of delegates, respectively, to keep an itemized
account and statement, giving the name of each person receiving
any money on account of any contingent or incidental expense
authorized under any and all resolution or resolutions as may be
hereafter adopted by their respective houses in reference to any
contingent and incidental expense thereof; said itemized ac-
count 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.”

3. It is hereby made the duty of the auditor of public ac-
counts to keep a separate account of the contingent and inci-
dental expenses of the senate and house of delegates of Virginia,
respectively, as authorized by resolution 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 seventeen 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. There being an emergency for the payment of said ex-
penses, this act shall be in force from its passage.

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