Chap. 342.—An ACT Appropriating the Public Revenue for the Fisca
. year 1872-73.

Approved April 1, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the public taxes due prior to the first day of Octgber, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, as well as all other branches of reve.
nue and all public moneys not otherwise appropriated, which
shall come into the treasury prior to the first day of October,
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, shall constitute a general
fund and be appropriated for the fiscal year to close the thir-
tieth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
as follows, to wit:

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

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

To defray criminal charges, including expenses of juries,
witnesses and guarding jails, one hundred and forty thousand
dollars. ! |

For transporting convicts to penitentiary, twelve thousand
dollars.

For support of convicts, fifteen thousand dollars.

For salaries to the superintendent, assistant keepers and
surgeon of the penitentiary, ten thousand dollars.

For pay for the interior guard at the penitentiary, four thou-
sand five hundred dollars.

For pay for the exterior guard at the penitentiary, fifteen
thousand dollars.

4 For penitentiary manufacturing purposes, thirty thousand
ollars. |

To the Virginia Military Institute, fifteen thousand dollars.

For military contingent fund, one thousand dollars.

For annual salary of the adjutant-general, two thousand
dollars. |

For judgment against the commonwealth for supplies to the
public guard, one hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty-
eight cents. —

- To the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, in addition to its receipts
from pay patients, sixty thousand dollars.

To the Central Lunatic Asylum, forty-five thousand dollars.

To the Western Lunatic Asylum, in addition to its receipts.
from pay patients, fifty-five thousand dollars.
To the maintenance of lunatics in jail, seven thousand five
hundred dollars. .

For the institution of the deaf, dumb and blind, forty thou-
sand dollars.

To the University of Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.

To the Richmond Medical College, one thousand five hundred
dollars.

To contingent expenses of courts, thirty-five thousand dol-

8.

To civil prosecutions, three thousand dollars.

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

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

For printing records of the court of appeals, ten thousand
dollars.

To the civil contingent fund, twenty-thousand dollars.

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

For collectors’ commissions, four thousand five hundred dol-
lars.

For salary messenger in the office of the auditor of public
accounts, one thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the office of the auditor of pub-
lic accounts, for postage, books, stationery and other office ex-
penses, two thousand two hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses second auditor’s office, three hun-
dred dollars. | |

For contingent expenses treasury office, three hundred dol-

lars. |
_ For contingent expenses register'’s office, one hundred dol-

8.

For the oyster fund, thirty thousand dollars.

For registration of births, marriages and deaths, four thou-
sand dollars.

To vaccine agent, eight hundred dollars.

To pensioners, four hundred dollars.

For public printing, thirty thousand dollars.

For printing twenty-second volume of Grattan’s Reports,
three thousand dollars. :

For re-printing and binding eighth and ninth volumes
Leigh’s reports, two thousand six hundred and sixty-two dol-
lars and eighty cents.

For expenses of funding the public debt, ten thousand dol-
lars.
To the counties of Albemarle and Nelson, for interest Daw-
son fund, two thousand and fifty-one dollars and twenty-six
cents.

To the board of education for one year's interest on the
bonds of the state, purchased with the agricultural land scrip
under « joint resolution of the general assembly the second
January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, twenty thousand
four hundred and forty dollars and eight cents.
For the preservation of historical papers, two thousand dol-
lars.

Repairs of the capitol and the state courthouse, eight hun-
dred dollars.

Contingent expenses of the board of public works, two hun-
dred and fifty dollars.

College of electors for president and vice president of the
United States, December, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
four hundred and twenty-one dollars and five cents.

Replacing Houdon’s statue of Washington, one thousand
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 of George W. Munford, John Goode, Jr., and Dr.
Merriwether Lewis, commissioners appointed by the governor,
under joint resolution of the general assembly, approved March
twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to revise the
laws relating to oysters, the sum of three hundred dollars each,
nine hundred dollars.

For the publication of a new edition of the Code of Vir-
ginia, so mu h as may be necessary to execute the act passed
at the present session of the general assembly in relation
thereto, provided the same shall not exceed the sum of fifteen
thousand dollars.

To pay of George W. Munford for the preparation of the
Code aforesaid, examination of the proof-sheets thereof, and for
the preparation of a fulland complete index thereto, the sum
of five thousand dollars.

2. So much of the public revenue as may be received into
the treasury after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, and the surplus of all other appro-
priations made prior to that date, unexpended within the fiscal
year hereinbefore provided for, and all other moneys not other-
wise appropriated by law, shall constitute a general fund to
defray such expenses, authorized by law, as ure not herein par-
ticularly provided for, and to defray the usual allowances to
lunatic asylums, and other current expenses of the common-
wealth, in the fiscal year which will commence on the first of
October, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and terminate on
the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-
four; 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 excep-
tions, limitations and conditions as the general assembly has
prescribed, or may deem it proper to annex and prescribe by
law: provided, that nothing in this act contained shall be so
construed as to anthorize the said auditor 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 hundr ed dollars, without a special appropria-
tion by law.

3. The payments for support to the lunatic asylums, for sup-
port and transportation of patients, and to the institution for How
the education of the deaf, dumb and blind, shall be made, one- #0"
fourth in advance on the ‘first day of October, one-half on the Deal
first day of J anuary (if the visitors or directors so require), paid
and the remaining one-fourth on the first day of July: pro-
vided, that the auditor of public accounts will pay the afore-
said appropriation to the Central asylum in monthly instal-
ments, if the visitors or directors so require. _

4. This act shall be in force from its passage. Com