Chap. 67.—An ACT to appropriate the sum of $25,000 for the pro
administration of the affairs of that part of Bland magisterial dis-
trict, Prince George county, Virginia, known as Hopewell, and _ its
suburbs; to prescribe the method whereby the said appropriation shall
be expended, and to provide for the payment thereof to the State
treasury. (S. B. 88.)

Approved February 26, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is,
hereby appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise appropri-
ated, to be used in the administration of the affairs of the
community known as Hopewell, and adjacent territory, in Bland
magisterial district, Prince George county, Virginia.

2. That out of the said funds a sum not exceeding ten thous-
and dollars shall be paid to the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and
company, to cover the actual expense for advancements made by
the said company for the construction and equipment of a jail
building in said community; the said sum to be paid by the war-
rant of the auditor of public accounts, drawn on the State
treasurer, when the amount to be so paid shall have been ap-
provec by the governor and the transfer of the title to said iail
building and the real estate on which it is located, has becn made
so as to invest the legal title thereof in either the county of
Prince George or-in the city of Hopewell, hereafter to be incor-
porated.

3. That the auditor of public accounts shall pav out of the
balance of the said sum, fifty thousand dollars ($50.000), by
his warrant cn the State treasurer, such expenses as may be in-
curred in the administration of the affairs of the said commun-
ity by the administrative board, provided for in an act passed,
or to be passed, at this session of the general assembly, but such
expenses shall not be incurred until the general purposes thereof
shall be first approved by the governor, and all bills for expenses
shall before pavment be approved by at least three members of
said administrative board and by the governor.

4. That if there be any balance of the appropriation hereby
made remaining unexpended when the said communitv becomes
inenrpcrated as a city, such unexpended balance shall be paid
in like manner bv the auditor, by warrants on the State treas-
urer, for such bills as mav be authorized by the council of the
proposed city and approved by the mayor thereof.

5. Tnat after the said community shall become a city it
shall pay back into the State treasurv the appropriation hereby
made, to-wit: the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars in install-
ments of two and one-half per cent. of the gross receipts arising
in the treasury of said city, such repayments to begin on the first
day of January, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and to continue
annually thereafter until the said twenty-five thousand dollars,
without interest, has been fully repaid to the State; such repay-
ment shall be made by the treasurer of the proposed city to the
State treasurer, who shall give his receipt therefor.
6. All acts or parts of acts so far as they are in conflict with
this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
It appearing that the use of the fund hereby appropri-
ated is immediately necessary, an emergency is hereby declared
to exist, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage.