An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1877/1878 |
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Law Number | 243 |
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Law Body
Chap. 243.—An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fisca
year 1877-78.
Approved March 14, 1878.
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-seven, as well as all other branches
of revenue, and all other moneys not otherwise appropriated.
which shall come into the treasury prior to the first day o:
October, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, shall consti
tute a general fund, and be appropriated for the fiscal year
to close on the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight, as follows, to-wit: |
To expenses of the general assembly for the session com.
mencing on the first Wednesday in December, eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
To salaries and allowances of the officers of civil govern-
ment, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
To defray criminal charges, including expenses of juries,
witnesses, and guarding jails, one hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars.
For transporting convicts to the penitentiary, twelve thou-
sand dollars.
For supplies furnished for convicts in the penitentiary,
twenty-three thousand dollars.
For salaries of the superintendents, assistant keepers,
clerk, and surgeon at the penitentiary, and allowance to the
boar of directors, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of the interior guard of the penitentiary, three
thousand dollars.
For pay of the exterior guard of the penitentiary, twelve
thousand dollars.
For the purchase of raw material for the penitentiary,
manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars.
To the Virginia military institute, twenty-five thousand
do}lars; which shall include ten thousand dollars annually
appropriated for six years, by. act of March seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
To the military contingent fund, two hundred and fifty
dollars.
To the Eastern lunatic asylum, in addition to receipts
from patients, sixty thousand dollars, and any balance due
said asylum on the annual appropriation of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-six—seventy-seven, for support of the insti-
tution.
To the Eastern lunatic asylum, balance due for enlarge-
ment and alterations, under the act of March ten, eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, thirty-two thousand dollars.
To the Central lunatic asylum, fifty thousand dollars, and
any balance due said asylum on the annual appropriation of
eighteen hundred and seventy-six—seventy-seven, for support
of the institution.
To the Western lunatic asylum, in addition to receipts
from patients, sixty thousand dollars, and any balance due
said axylum on the annual appropriation of eighteen bun-
dred and seventy-six—seventy-seven, for support of the insti-
tution.
To the Western lunatic asylum, balance due for enlarge-
ment and alterations, under the act of March ten, eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, thirty-six thousand dollars.
For maintenance of lunatics in jail, thirty thousand dol-
lars. :
To the institution for the deaf, dumb, and blind, forty
thousand dollars.
To the University of Virginia, thirty thousand dollars.
To the Medical college of Virginia at Richmond, fifteen
hundred dollars.
To the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college at
Blacksburg, under the act of April two, eighteen bundred
and seventy-seven, ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-
three dollars and thirty-three cents.
To contingent expenses of courts, forty-five thousand dol-
lars.
To civil prosecutions, for expenses incident to suits in
which the commonwealth is a party, one thousand dollars.
For annual allowance to the reporter of the court of ap-
peals, fifteen bundred dollars.
For light and fuel for attorney-general’s office, one hun-
dred dollars.
To printing records of the court of appeals, five thousand
dollars.
To the civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars.
To contingent expenses of the office of the treasurer, for
the employment of a temporary clerk, one thousand dollars.
To the commissioners of the revenue for taking lists
of taxable property and subjects, preparing books, lists of
licenses, and postage, fifty-five thousand dollars.
To collectors’ commissions, three thousand dollars.
To salary of the porter in the office of the auditor of pub-
lic accounts, seven hundred and thirty dollars.
Additional sum allowed to porter to basement offices of
fifty cents per day, one hundred and eighty dollars.
To contingent expenses of the office of the auditor of pub-
lic accounts for postage on land, property, and other books;
on blanks, and for current correspondence, two thousand
dollars. For clerical services in office of auditor of public
accounts, in addition to regular allowances, two thousand
dollars per annum, not more than five hundred dollars of
which shall be expended for the year ending September thir-
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, nor more than five
hundred dollars for any succeeding three months.
To contingent expenses of the second auditor’s office, three
hundred dollars.
To contingent expenses of the treasurer’s office, three
hundred dollars.
To contingent expenses of the register’s office, one hun-
dred dollars.
To contingent expenses of the superintendent or public
buildings, one hundreg dollars.
To contingent expenses of the office of the secretary of
the commonwealth for postage on poll books, blanks, and so
forth, two hundred and fifty dollars.
The sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby required to
be paid to the second auditor quarterly, for general school
purposes, to commence on the first day of July, eighteen
hundred and ,seventy-eight, and to continue until all the
arrearages due the school fund, amounting to three hundred
and eighty-two thousand seven hundred aud thirty-two dol-
lars and twenty-six cents, be tully paid.
To registration of marriages, births, and deaths, five thou-
sand dollars.
To the clerk of the Senate, at the rate of six hundred dol-
jars per annum, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, in addition to the salary allowed from and after that
period.
To vaccine agent’s salary, six hundred and seventy-five
dollars.
To pensioners (wounded at Harper’s Ferry—John Brown
raid), ninety-six dollars.
For public printing, twenty-six thousand dollars.
For printing and binding twenty-eighth volume of Grat-
tan’s Reports, four thousand dollars.
For pay of an extra guard of the unissued bonds in the
treasurer’s office, seven hundred and eighty dollars; and for
the purchase of safes to secure bonds and papers in the
offices of the treasurer and second auditor, six hundred
dollara. .
For pay of police employed at the capitol and state court-
house, and for pay of messenger to the executive department,
and to employees about the governor’s grounds and the
public square, six thousand dollars.
To pay for printing blank forms and expenses collecting
tax on oysters, two hundred dollars.
To pay the interest on the Dawson fund, bonds held for
schools in Albemarle and Nelson counties, two thousand and
fifty-two dollars.
For the preservation and cultivation of fish, two thousand
dollars.
For marking and designating the boundary line between
this state and the state of Maryland, as determined by the
award of the arbitrators, to be expended under the control
and direction of the governor, one thousand five hundred dol-
lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
So much of the public revenue as may be received into the
treasury after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-eight, 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 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 asylums, and other current expenses
of the commonwealth in the fiacal year which will commence
on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-
eight, and terminate on the thirtieth day of September,
eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and the auditor of publie
accounts is kereby authorized and required to issue his war-
rant in the same manner as if the same had been specially
mentioned, subject to such exceptions, limitations, and con-
ditions, as the general assembly has prescribed or may deem
it proper to annex and prescribe by law.
he payments for support to 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 so
require), and the remaining one-fourth on the first day of
July: provided that the auditor of public accounts shall pay
the aforesaid appropriations to the Central asylum in monthly
instalments, if the visitors or directors so require.
Any surplus revenue that may remain after paying the
foregoing appropriations shall be appropriated to the pay-
ment of the interest on the peeler debt and on two-thirds of
the unfunded debt pro rata.
2. This act sball be in force from its passage.