CHAP. 222.—An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the coun
ties and councils of cities and towns to appropriate money at thei
discretion to defray the necessary expenses for the Confederate vete
rans in said counties and cities and towns to visit Birmingham, Ala
bama, on May 16, 17, 18, 1916, at the grand reunion of Confederate

veterans. (H. B. 367.)
| Approved March 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State
and councils of the cities and towns of the State are hereby
authorized in their discretion to appropriate money out of the
county and city or town funds to defray the necessary expense:
of the Confederate veterans of said counties, cities and town:
desiring to attend the reunion of the United Confederate vet
erans in Birmingham, Alabama, on the sixteenth, seventeenth
and eighteenth of May, nineteen hundred and sixteen. The num-
ber of veterans to have their expenses paid shall be left to the
discretion of the board of supervisors of the counties and coun-
cils of cities and towns.

. For this act to be effective it must go into effect at once,
as the ninety days will not have expired before the above dates
named, therefore an emergency exists and this act shall be in
force from its passage.