Chap. 76.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2742 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, 1919, in relaton to how the circuit court and board of supervisors of any
county may authorize and permit the erection of a Contederate or World
War monument at the county seat thereof. [H B 68]

Approved February 28, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion twenty-seven hundred and forty-two of the Code of Virginia, nine-
teen hundred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 2742. Circuit court and board of supervisors of any county
may authorize and permit, and aid in the erection of a Confederate
or World War monument at the county seat thereof.—The circuit court
of any county may, with the concurrence of the board of supervisors
of such county entered of record, authorize and permit the erection of
a Confederate or World War monument upon the public square of
such county at the county seat thereof. And if the same shall be so
erected it shall not be lawful thereafter for the authorities of said
county, or any other person or persons whatever, to disturb or inter-
fere with any monument so erected, or to prevent the citizens of said
county from taking all proper measures and exercising all proper means
for the protection, preservation and care of same.

And the board of supervisors may appropriate a sufficient sum or
sums of money out of the funds of any such county to complete or
aid in the erection of a monument to the Confederate or World War
veterans of such county upon the public square thereof, or elsewhere
at the county seat; and they are also authorized to make a special levy
to raise the money necessary for the completion of any such monument,
or the erection of a monument to such Confederate or World War
veterans, or to supplement the funds already raised or that may be
hereafter raised by private persons, or by Confederate veterans, or
by the American Legion, or other organizations, for the purpose of
building such monuments; and they are also authorized and empowered
to appropriate from time to time, out of any funds of such county,
a sufficient sum or sums of money to permanently care for, protect
and preserve the Confederate or World War monument erected upon
the public square, or elsewhere at the county seat, of any such county,
and to expend the same thereafter as other county funds are expended.