Chap. 4.—An ACT to provide for the payment of the general and the con-
tingent and incidental expenses of the general assembly and to appropriate
money for the same. (H Bl

Approved February 3, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
sum of sixty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to meet the general
expense and the contingent and incidental expenses of the general
assembly up to and including February twenty-ninth, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty.

2. Of said sum so appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars
is set aside to pay the salaries of members, clerks, assistant clerks,
officers, pages, employees, and also for the mileage of members, officers
and employees.

3. Of the said sum so appropriated, the sum of ten thousand
dollars is set aside to. meet the contingent and incidental expenses of
the general assembly, one-half of said amount for the use of the
senate and one-half for the use of the house of delegates and for
the disbursement of the said funds respectively, the auditor of public
accounts shall 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, respectively, by resolution of the
senate or the house of delegates.

4. It is hereby made the duty of the clerk of the senate and the
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 account 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”.

5. It is hereby made the duty of the auditor of public accounts
to keep a separate account of the contingent and incidental 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.

6. There being a necessity for the payment of said expenses, an
emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from
its passage.