Chap. 333.—An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental ex-
penses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.

Approved December 1, 1903.

Whereas, there are certain contingent and incidental expenses of the
general assembly which cannot be provided for specifically, and which
must be paid; and,

Whereas, there has been no appropriation made to meet the same; and,

Whereas, section one hundred and eighty-six of the Constitution pro-
vides that no money shall be paid out of the State treasury except in
pursuance of appropriations made by law, and section fifty of the Consti-
tution provides that no law shall be enacted except by bill; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the auditor
of public accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to 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 by resolution
either of the senate or house of delegates.

2. 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 cach 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 ac-
count, 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.”

3. 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 reso-
lution 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.

4. To pay the expenses above referred to, there is hereby appropriated,
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of
two thousand dollars, one-half of which shall be set apart for the use of
the senate, and the other half for the use of the house of delegates.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage.