Chap. 386.—An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fiscal
Year 1871-72,

Approved April 5, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the public taxes due prior to the first day of October, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, and not otherwise appropriated, and
of all other branches of revenue, and all public moneys not
otherwise appropriated by law, which shall come into the trea-
sury prior to the first day of October, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, shall constitute a general fund, and be appropri-
ated for the fiscal year, to close the thirtieth day of September,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, as follows, to wit:

To the expenses of the general assembly for the session com-
mencing on the sixth day of December, eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

To salaries and allowances of the officers of the civil govern-
ment, two hundred and twelve thousand dollars.

To defray criminal charges, including expenses of juries, wit-
ese and guarding jails, one hundred and fifty thousand dol-

For support of convicts, twenty thousand dollars.

For transporting convicts to the penitentiary, twelve thou-
sand dollars. —

For salaries to superintendent, assistant keepers, sergeant
and pay of interior guard of the penitentiary, fifteen thousand
dollars, and for pay of exterior guard, fifteen thousand dollars.

To contingent expenses of courts, forty thousand dollars.

To pay for printing records of the court of appeals, six thou-
sand dollars.

To the military contingent fund, one thousand dollars.

To the Virginia military institute, fifteen thousand dollars.

To the western Iunatic asylum, sixty thousand dollars, and
the amount reccived on account of the pay patient fund.

To the eastern lunatic asylum, eighty thousand dollars
(sixty thousand dollars for the annual support, and twenty
thousand dollars for the heating apparatus authorized to be
put up by act of eighteen hundred and seventy-two), and the
amount received on account of the pay patient fund.

For the maintenance of lunatics in jail, five thousand dollars.

For the institution of the deaf, dumb and blind, for annuity,
forty thousand dollars.

To civil prosecutions, four thousand dollars.

To the vaccine agent, five hundred dollars.

To the civil contingent fund, twenty-six thousand dollars.

To the commissioners of the revenue and township assessors,
seventy thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the board of public works,
one hundred and fifty dollars.

To the university of Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.

To the public free school fund of the state, one-fifth of the
revenue derived from the tax upon the retail of ardent spirits.
For registration of births, marriages and deaths, two thou-
sand and five hundred dollars.

For public printing, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For salary of messenger in the office of the auditor of pub-
lic accounts, one thousand dollars.
| For expenses of funding the public debt, eighteen thousand
dollars.

For penitentiary expenses, the amount which shall have been
paid within the fiscal year into the treasury for the hire of
convicts.

For the oyster fund, thirty thousand dollars.

For pensioners, two hundred and eighty dollars.

For central lunatic asylums, forty-five thousand dollars.

To the Richmond medical college, fifteen hundred dollars.

To contingent expenses of the office of the auditor of public
accounts, for postage, books, stationery and other office ex-
penses, two thousand dollars.

To contingent expenses of the second auditor's office, three
hundred dollars.

To contingent expenses of the treasurer's office, eight hun-
dred dollars.

To contingent expenses of the register’s office, one hundred
dollars.

For repairs to capitol, under act of eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For interest on the public debt held by literary institutions,
thirty-two thousand dollars.

For arrears of interest on the public debt held by individuals,
thirty thousand dollars.

For annual allowance to the reporter of the court of ap-
peals, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For re-printing and binding Grattan’s Reports under act of
twenty-first January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for
a volume to be published within the year, eight thousand dol-
lars.

For rent of office for the attorney general, four hundred dol-
lars.

For the purchase of weights and measures, three thousand
dollars.

For wnexpended balance of appropriation of twenty thou-

sand dollars for artificial limbs, fourteen thousand five hundred
and ninety-five dollars and eighty cents.

For unexpended balance of appropriation of twenty-five
hundred dollars for the culture of fish, one thousand and
eighty dollars.

For asserting the commonwealth’s right of jurisdiction over
the countics of Berkeley and Jefferson, under act of first of
March, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, appropriating twenty
thousand ‘dollars, one thousand dollars.

For collector's commissions, one thousand five hundred
dollars.

To pay compensation of commissioners appointed under act
thousand dollars: provided, that the compensation of each
commissioner shall not be in excess of ten dollars for each day
during which such commissioner shall certify that he has been
actually engaged in discharging the duties imposed upon said
commissioners by said act.

For the cost of two guns, to be purchased by the auditor of
public accounts for the oyster police boats, twelve hundred
dollars.

For compensation to the attorney-general for attending to
the commonwealth’s cases in the circuit court of the United
States, five hundred dollars.

To pay for advertising proposed sale of the state’s interest
in the various internal improvement companies of the common-
wealth, under act of assembiy approved March twenty-eight,
eighteen hundred and seventy-one, five hundred and fifty-eight
dollars and seventy-five cents.

So much of the public revenue as may be received into the
public treasury after the thirtieth of September, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-two, and the surplus of all other appropria-
tions made prior to that date, unexpended within the fiscal year
hereinbefore provided for, and all other moneys not otherwise
appropriated by law, shall constitute a general fund to defray
such expenses authorized by law as are not herein particularly
provided for, and to defray the usual allowances to lunatic asy-
lums and other current expenses of the commonwealth in the
fiscal year which will commence on the first of October,
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and terminate on the thir-
tieth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-three ;
and the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and
required to issue his warrants in the same manner as if the
same had been specially mentioned, subject to such exceptions,
limitations and conditions as the general assembly have pre-
scribed, or may deem it proper to annex and prescribe, by law:
provided, that nothing in this act contained shall be so con-
strued as to authorize the auditor of public accounts to issue
his warrant or warrants in satisfaction of any judgment or
decree of any court of law or equity against the commonwealth
for a sum exceeding three hundred dollars, without a special
appropriation by law.

3. The payments for support to the lunatic asylums for sup-
port and transportation of patients, and to the institution for
the education of the deaf, dumb and blind, shall be made one-
fourth in advance on the first day of October, one-half on the
first day of January (if the visitors or directors so require),
and the remaining one-fourth on the first day of July: provided,
that the auditor of public accounts will pay the aforesaid appro-
priation to the central asylum in monthly instalments if the
visitors or directors so require.

4. Any of the foregoing appropriations, payment of which
has been anticipated by authority of law, shall not be paid a
second time.

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