Chap. 451.—An ACT to relieve the clerks of the courts of Accomac and North-
ampton counties from liability for certain money collected for hunting licenses
and paid by them to the Eastern Shore Game Protection Association; to
require an accounting of the expenditure of such public funds by the said
association; to confirm certain expenditures and to require that the balance
be paid to the State treasurer by said association for credit to the game
protection fund and that equipment purchased with such funds be turned
over to the commission of game and inland fisheries. [H B 156]

Approved March 27, 1930

Whereas, the attorney general of Virginia rendered an opinion
dated January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty, to the ef-
fect that the law under which the money collected for hunting licenses
by the clerks of the circuit courts of Accomac and Northampton coun-
ties, and paid by said clerks to the Eastern Shore Game Protection Asso-
ciation, was repealed by an act approved March twenty-fourth, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-six, amending section thirty-three hundred and
thirty-three of the Code of Virginia, which act became a law on June
twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, and,

Whereas, a portion of the money so collected and turned over to
the Eastern Shore Game Protection Association, has been expended by
the said association, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
clerks of the circuit courts of Accomac and Northampton counties are
hereby relieved of all liability for public funds so collected and paid
over to the Eastern Shore Game Protection Association up to the first
day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, and the said clerks shall
remit all moneys collected after March first, nineteen hundred and
thirty, to the State treasurer for credit to the game protection fund in
accordance with existing law.

2. The Eastern Shore Game Protection Association is hereby re-
lieved from liability for such of the public funds as have been expended
by it for the payment of administrative expenses, the salaries and ex-
penses of game wardens and the purchase and repair of equipment.
The remainder of the public fund not so expended shall be by it paid
to the State treasurer of Virginia, accompanied by an itemized and
detailed statement in duplicate of all public moneys received and ex-
pended from June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six
to March first, nineteen hundred and thirty; the date of such pay-
ments, to whom paid and for what purpose. The State treasurer of
Virginia shall turn over one copy of said statement to the commission
of game and inland fisheries and the other copy to the State comp-
troller.

3. All equipment purchased and repaired from such public funds
shall be turned over to the commission of game and inland fisheries by
the Eastern Shore Game Protection Association.

4. An emergency existing this act shall be effective from its
passage.