Chap. 252.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to organize
county and city boards of poor commissioners, and requiring reports from
said boards, approved March 14, 1910. [H B 133]

Approved March 23, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
shall be organized in every county and city in the Commonwealth a
board of poor commissioners to be composed of the superintendent
of the poor and the overseers of the poor of the several districts of the
county, where such officers are in existence, the county superintendent
of public welfare and the superintendents of public welfare of the
cities where such officer exists, and the president of the council in
cities where there is no superintendent of public welfare. The said
board shall elect from its members a chairman and secretary; it shall
meet twice a year, in the months of January and July for the purpose
of preparing reports to be forwarded to the State board of public
welfare, setting forth the number of paupers provided for in the pre-
ceding six months, showing color, mental and physical condition, the
cause of poverty of each, the amount received by the superintendent,
the several overseers of the poor and the superintendent of public
welfare from the annual levy, and the amount received from other
sources, the amount expended for the past six months showing how
much was expended at the place of general reception, how much for
those supported or assisted elsewhere, and the balance remaining in
their hands or under their control, and they shall embody in that
report such other information as may be required by the State board
of public welfare.

2. The State board of public welfare may prescribe the form of
such report and it shall be made in that form, and if no other form
be prescribed then in such form as the board of poor commissioners
may adopt, so that it embrace all information required by the pre-
ceding section; and for failure to make such report the said board of
poor commissioners or any member thereof failing to perform the
duties as herein prescribed, shall forfeit not less than ten and not more
than one hundred dollars, to be recovered as provided by law for the
use of the county or city by motion against them after ten days’
notice in writing.

3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.