Chap. 321.—An ACT to incorporate the State Grand Lodge of the In-
dependent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria, No.
6, of the State of Virginia. :

_ Approved March 81, 1875,

1. Be it cnacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
James H. Holmes, D. F. Batts, J. A. Taylor, E. Ww Williams,
Isaiah Nichols, and S. D. Jones, and such other persons as
are now or may hereafter be regularly associated with them,
be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body polli-
tic and corporate, under the namé and style of The State
Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans
and Daughters of Samaria, Number Six, of the State of Vir-
ginia, and by that name shall havo perpetual succession and
a common seal; may suc and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
and may purchase and hold, tb them and their successors,
such lands and tenements, goods and chattels of any kind
whatever, as may be conducive to the objects of such associ-
ation: provided, however, that any real estate so acquired qr
held shall not exceed, in the aggregate, fifty acres.

2. It shall be lawful for said grand lodge to borrow a sum
of money not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, at a rate not
exceeding the legal rate of interest, for the purpose of erect-
ing a building suitable for a ball and as an asylom for the
widow and orphan, giving security for the sum so borrowed
by deed of trust or mortgage on its real estate.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage, and be sub-
ject to amendment, modification and repeal, at the pleasure
of the general assembly.
Chap. $22.—An ACT Appropriation the Public Revenue for the Fiscal
Year 1874-75.

Approved March 31, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the public taxes, due prior to the first day of October, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-four, as well as all other branches
of revenue, and all public moneys not otherwise appropria-
ted, which shall come into the treasury prior to the first day
of October, cighteen hundred and seventy-five, shall consti-
tute a ceneral fund, and be appropriated for the fiscal year
to close on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred
and seventy-five, as follows, to-wit:

To expenses of the gener ral assembly, for the session com-
mencing on the first Wednesday in December, eighteen bun-
dred and seventy-four, one hundred and sixty- five thousand
dollars.

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

To defray criminal charges inéluding expenses of juries,
witnesses, and vuarding jails, one hundred and twenty-cight
thousand dollars.

For transporting convicts to the penitentiary, cight thous-
and dollars.

For support of convicts, seventeen thousand two hundred
dollars.

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

For pay of the interior guard of the penitentiary, four
thousand one hundred dollars.

For pay of the exterior guard of the penitentiary, fourteen
thousand six hundred dollars.

For penitentiary manufacturing purposes, twenty thous-
and dollars.

To the Virginia military institute, fifteen thousand dollars.

To military contingent fund, one thousand dollars.

For annual salary of tho adjutantegeneral, two thousand
dollars, out of which any clerk employed in bis office shall
be paid.

o the Eastern lunatic asylum, in addition. to its receipts
from the pay patient fund, sixty thousand dollars.

To the Central lunatic asylum, fifty thaqusand dollars.

To the Western lunatic asylum, in addition to its receipts
from pay patients, sixty thousand dollars.

To the maintenance of lunatics in jail, fourteen thousand
Alollars.

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

To the University of Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars.
To the Richmond medical college, one thousand five &
dred dollars.

To the Agricultural and Mechanical college, for the see:
year’s appropriation under the act of March twenty-sev
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, fifteen thousand doll.

For contingent expenses of courts, thirty-cight thous:
dollars.

To civil prosecutions, two thousand five hundred doll:

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

For rent of office for the attorney-general, four hund:
dollars. | |

For printing records of the court of appeals, cight tho
and dollars.

To the civil contingent fund, twenty thousand dollars.

To the commissioners of the revenuc and township ass
sos, forty-four thousand dollars.

To collectors’ commissions, six thousand dollars.
b]

For salary of messenger in the office of the auditor of pi
lic accounts, one thousand dollars, and in addition tot
sum allowed the porter in the said office, the sum of fit
cents per day.

For contingent expenses of the office of the auditor
public accounts, for postago stamps, postage, and box ret
stationery, advertising, telegrams, express charges, freigh
and other expenses, three thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the office of the second an:
tor, three hundred and twenty dollars.

For contingent expenses of the office of the treasure
three hundred dollars.

For contingent .expenses of the office of the register
the land office, one bundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the office of the superinte
dent of public buildings, one hundred and fifty dollars.

To pay the cost of the urinal erected near the easte
vestibule of the capitol dollars.

For the registration of births, marriages, and deaths, fot
thousand and eight hundred dollars.

For vaccine agent, eight hundred dollars.

For pensioners, one hundred and ninety-two dollars.

For public printing, thirty thousand dollars.

For printing and binding the twenty-fourth volume |
Grattan’s Reports, three thousand seven hundred dollars.

For reprinting and binding the first and second volum
of Robinson’s Reports, three thousand five hundred dollar

For expenses of funding the public debt, four thousan
dollars.

For the preservation of historical papers, one thousan
dollars.
For compensation to the attorney-general for attending
© the commonwealth’s cases in the United States courts,
ive hundred dollars.

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

For the preparation, advertising, and other expenses at-
-ending the sale of delinquent lands, three thousand dollars.
For commutation for artificial limbs, three thousand dol-
lars.

To pay John O. Steger for examination of the condition
of the basement offices, one thousand five hundred dollars.

To the board of immigration, ten thousand dollars.

For the repairs to cattle pens, one thousand one hundred
dollars.

For iron railing for platform and on the steps of the capi-
tol, two hundred dollars.

For repairs to the rooms of the supreme court of appegls,
clerk’s office, law library, and so.forth, one thousand two
hundred dollars.

For carpet and.matting for the office of*the auditor of
public accounts, six hundred dollars.

For the preservation and cultivation of fish, twenty-five
hundred dollars.

For the reassessment of lands as provided in section six,
article ten of the constitution, and chapter thirty-two of the
Code, edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, forty-
eight thousand dollars.

2. So much of the public revenue as may be received into
the treasury after the thirteenth day of September, eighteen
hundred and seventy-five, and the surplus of all other appro-
priations made prior to that dato, unexpended within the fis-
cal year hereinafter 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 al-
lowances to lunatic asylums and othor current expenses of
the commonwealth, in the fiscal year which will commence
on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five, and terminate on the thirtieth day of September, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-six; and the auditor of public ac-
counts is hereby authorized and required to issue his warrant
in the same manner as if the same had been.specially men-
tioned, subject to such exceptions, limitations and conditions
as the general assembly has prescribed, or may deem it pro-
per to annex and prescribe by law: provided, that nothing
in this act contained shall be so construed as to authorize the
said auditor to issne 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 hun-
dred dollars, without a special appropriation by law.

3. The payments for support to tho lunatic asylums, for
support 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 80
require), and the remaining one-fourth on the first day of
Jaly: provided, that the auditor of public accounts will pay
the aforesaid appropriation to the central asylum in monthly
instalments, if the visitors or directors so require.
4, This act shall be in force from its passage.