CHAPTER 169

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 42-45 of the Code of Virginia so as to
permit the expenditure of funds for promoting sale of publications
of the State Library. [H 266]

Approved February 28, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
by That § 42-45 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 42-45. Editing and publishing State records and other special
matter——The Board may edit, or cause to be edited, arranged and pub-
lished, as the funds at its disposal permit, the State records now or
hereafter deposited in the State Library and such other special matter
as it deems of sufficient value.

The Board may cause to be printed any manuscript relating to the
history of Virginia which has not been published, including such portions
of the executive journals and letter books, and of the legislative papers,
as the Board may deem proper, and shall cause the papers so to be printed
to be arranged for that purpose and preserved for reference; and shall
cause the records in the Library pertaining to the various wars in which
the State has been engaged to be edited, arranged, and published so as to
show the service of citizens of the State in such wars.

The Board may expend its funds to list its publications in appropri-
ate commercial listings.