Chap. 77.—An ACT to appropriate the sum of $170,687 to the State hospitals
for the insane and the Virginia colony for epileptics, and the State
colony for the feeble-minded, to meet the deficits In maintenance of these
institutions for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918, {H B 149]

Approved February 28, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That. the
sum of one hundred and seventy thousand six hundred eighty-seven
dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the State hospitals for the
Insane, and the Virginia colony for epileptics, and the State colony
for the feeble-minded, as follows:

To the Central State hospital, seventy-nine thousand, four. hun-
dred and twenty-three dollars; to the Eastern State hospital, thirty-
five thousand dollars; to the Western State hospital, fifteen thou-
sand dollars; to the Southwestern State hospital, fifteen thousand
dollars; to the Virginia colony for epileptics and feeble-minded.
twenty-six thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars, to meet the
deficts in the maintenance of each of the afore-named institutions
for the fiscal year ending February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred
and eighteen.

2. An emergency existing by reason of the fact that the above-
named institutions are needing the funds to meet their financial
obligations, and to provide the patients therein proper care, this act
shall be in force from its passage.