CHAP. 162.—An ACT to authorize the director of the legislative refer-
ence bureau to employ a sufficient number of clerical assistants to
perform the work of the bureau and the stenographic and clerical
work of the members of the general assembly during the present leg-
islative session and to purchase codes, acts, journals, files and other
books and equipment for the immediate use of said bureau; to ap-
propriate money for such purposes and for the purpose of supple
menting the former appropriation for salaries and expenses in con-
nection with said bureau for the current fiscal year. (S. B. 185.)

Approved March 11, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the director of the legislative reference bureau be, and he is
hereby authorized to employ a sufficient number of clerical as-
sistants to perform the work of the bureau and the stenographic
and clerical work required of them by members of the general
assembly during the present legislative session and to purchase
Codes, acts, journals, files and other books and equipment for
the immediate use of said bureau. For these purposes and for
the purpose of supplementing the former appropriation for sal-
aries and expenses in connection with said bureau for the cur-
rent fiscal year, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars is hereby
appropriated out of any funds in the treasury of the State not
otherwise appropriated to be paid out in the same manner and
under like conditions as expenditures for said bureau, as pre-
scribed by an act entitled an act for the creation and maintenance
of a legislative reference bureau, approved March twenty-first,
nineteen hundred and fourteen.