Chap. 425.—An ACT appropriating the Public Revenues for the fiscal
years 1884 and 1885.

Approved March 15, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the public taxes and arrears of taxes due prior to the first
day of October, in the years eighteen hundred and eighty-
four and eighteen hundred and eighty-five, respectively, as
well as the revenue derived trom all other sources, and all
moneys not otherwise appropriated, which shall come into
the treasury’prior to the first day of October, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four, and the first day of October, eighteen
hundred and cighty-five, shall constitute a general fund, and
be appropriated for the fiscal years to close on the thirtieth
day of September, eighteen hundred and cigity-four, and the
thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-five,
respectively, as follows—to-wit:

For the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of Sep-
tember, cighteen hundred and eighty-four:

Agricultural commissioner, contingent expenses of bis office,
five thousand dollars.

Attorney-general, for payment of rent of office and all con-
tingent and traveling expenses in attending to his official
duties, to be paid on accounts certified, nine hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of bis office,
one thousand five hundred dollars.

Board of public works, contingent expenses, two hundred
and fifty dollars: provided that no proxy of the state in any
internal improvement company shall receive more than fifty
dollars in any one year, in full of all mileage and compensa-
tion.

Board of public works, secretary's salary, two hundred and
twenty dollars.

Clerk of the Senate, in addition to salary allowed him after
July first, cighteen hundred and seventy-cight, six bundred
dollars.

Civil contingent fund, ten thousan 1 dollars.

Civil prosecutions, one thousand dollars; and the board of
public works is hereby required and directed to employ
associate counsel for such length of time as the board may
see fit, to assist the commonwealth’s attorney of Richmond
city in the proper defence of, and appeals from decisions
rendered in cases provided for in the act entitled an act to
give an appeal as of right to the commonwealth in all cases
where suits are instituted under the act approved January
fourteen, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act
to prevent trauds avainst the commonwealth and the bolders
of her securities in the collection and disbursement of revenue:
provided the compensation to be paid under this act shall not
exceed the sum of five hundred dollars per annum; and for
such assistance in any other county or city in this state, the
board of public works shall in its discretion employ counsel
to aid the commonwealth’s attorney for such city or county:
provided the compensation therefor shall not exceed the sum
of two hundred dollars per annum. The amount of compen-
sation herein provided for is hereby appropriated, in addition
to the sum of one thousand dollars appropriated for civil
prosecutions under this act.

Contingent expenses of courts. twenty-five thousand dollars.
Criminal charges, expenses of juries, witnesses, guarding Jails,
and so forth, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. The
physician to the city jail of Richmond shall not receive, in
any one year, more than one thousand dollars.

Dawson fund, interest on bonds held for schools held in
Albemarle and Nelson, two thousand and fifty-two dollars.

Deaf, dumb and blind institution, for support of, thirty-five
thousand dollars.

Escheats, ten dollars.

General account of revenue, fifty thousand dollars.

Virginia Reports, printing and binding, three thousand
dollars.

(yeneral assembly, including salaries of members, officers,
clerk hire, and so fortb, ninety thousand dollars.

Lunatics in jail, ten thousand dollars.

Lunatic asylums:

Central, fifty thousand dollars; pay outstanding liabilities
to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
fifteen thousand dollars. |

For completion of new Central lunatic asylum near Peters-
burg, according to plans already submitted, sixty-five thou-
sand dollars.

Kastern, in addition to pay patients, eighty thousand dol-
lars. For the purpose of supplying the asylum with electric
lights, ten thousand dollars; for the repair and extension of
the tower building, and for other repairs recommended by
the superintendent, twenty-two thousand dollars.

Western, in addition to pay patients, ninety-thousand
dollars.

Medical college of Virginia, at Richmond, fifteen hundred
dollars. .

Military contingent expenses, three thousand dollars: out
of which is to be paid costs attending court marshals and the
pay of officers and men ot volunteer companies called into
active service by order of the governor, during the term of
the present governor, or of his predecessor.
Militia, pay of adjutant-general, six hundred dollars.

Officers of’ the government, one hundred and seven thou-
sand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, as
follows:

Auditor of public accounts, three thousand dollars; ten
clerks in office of auditor of public accounts, ten thousand
seven hundred dollars; porter to basement offices, nine bun-
dred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents; second auditor,
two thousand dollars; first clerk in his office, one thousand
two hundred and eighty dollars; second clerk in his office,
one thousand and forty dollars; third clerk in bis office, nine
hundred and sixty dollars; treasurer, two thousand dollars;
first clerk in his office, one thousand two hundred and eivhty
dollars; second clerk in his office, one thousand and forty
dollars: third clerk in his office, nine hundred and sixty dol-
lars; register of the land oftice, one thousand five hundred
dollars; superintendent of beating apparatus, one thousand
dollars; superintendent of public printing, one thousand two
hundred dollars; governor, five thousand dollars; secretary
to governor, one ‘thousand two hundred dollars ; secretary of
commonwealth, two thousand dollars; clerks in office of
secretary of the commonwealth, one of whom is librarian,
(see Acts eighteen hundred and eighty-one-two, page two
hundred and thirty-four,) two thousand dollars ; attorney-
general, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to attorney-
general, five hundred dollars ; superintendent of public in-
struction, two thousand dollars: railroad commissioner, two
thousand dollars; clerk to railroad commissioner, one thou-
sand two hundred dollars; commissioner of agriculture, one
thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to commissioner of agri-
culture, six hundred dollars; clerk to senate, one thousand
dollars; clerk to house of delegates, one thousand eight hun-
dred dollars; judges of supreme court of appeals—president of
ecurt, three thousand two hundred dollars; one associate
judge, resident of Richmond, four thousand dollars; three
associate judyes, at three thousand dollars, nine thousand
dollars; traveling expenses, six hundred dollars; circuit
judzes—thirteen circuit Judges, at one thousand six hundred
dollars, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars; one circuit
judge, two thousand three hundred dollars; one circuit judge,
one thousand eight hundred dollars; one circuit judge, one
thousand two hundred dollars; one circuit judge, one thou-
sand nine hundred dollars; mileaye, three thousand dollars ;
judge of hustings court of Richmond, two thousand three

undred dollars; judge chancery court of Richmond, two
thousand three hundred dollars; clerk of court of appeals at
Staunton, four hundred dollars; clerk of court of appeals at
Wytheville, four hundred dollars; clerk of court of appeals
at Richmond, five hundred dollars; clerk ot hustings court of
Richmond, one thousand dollars; clerk of circuit court of
Richmond, one hundred and sixty dollars; commonwealth’s
attorney of Richmond city, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Criminal charges, five thousand dollars.

Exterior guard, twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty
dollars.

Interior guard, three thousand two hundred and forty
dollars.

House expenses, one thousand dollars.

Otticers of penitentiary, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Hire of convicts on public grounds, one thousand dollars.

Pension to Mrs. Boerley, ninety -SiX dollars, if alive.

Printing records in criminal cases in the court of appeals,
five hundred dollars.

Public printing, thirtv thousand dollars.

Register of the land office, contingent expenses, fifty dollars.

Revistration of marriages and births, five thousand dollars.

Reporter to the court of appeals, fifteen hundred dollars.

Second auditor's office, contingent expenses, one hundred
and fitty dollars,

Superintendent of public buildings, contingent expenses,
seventy-five dollars.

Secretary of the commonwealth, contingent expenses, two
hundred and fifty dollars.

Secretary of the commonwealth, for clerical services and
library, two thousand dollars.

Treasurer’s office, contingent expenses, one hundred dol-
lars.

Treasurer's office, temporary clerk in, one thousand two
hundred dollars. °

University of Virginia, annual appropriation, thirty thou-
sand dollars.

Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, twenty thou-
sand dollars, according to the provisions of the act approved
March sixth, eighteen “hundred and eighty-two, incorporating
said school: provided that these sums shall be charged
against any appropriation made by any other act passed by
this general assembly in aid of these institutions.

Vaccine agent, six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Virginia military institute, thirty thousand dollars.

To provide artificial limbs and commutation therefor, un.
der act passed at this session, sixty thousand dollars.

For preservation and cultivation of fish, four thousand dol.
lars.

For pay of police employed in the capitol and state court.
house, and for pay of messenger to the executive department
and to employees about the grounds of the gubernatorial man.
sion and public square, nine thousand five hundred and six:
teen dollars.

Janitor to offices of auditor of public accounts and treas.
urer, three hundred and sixty dollars.

To pay annual interest on bonds of the state of Virginia
held by institutions of learning, as follows:

Washington and Lee university, fourteen thousand twc
hundred and five dollars and forty-eight cents.
Virginia military institute, twelve hundred dollars.

Emory and Henry college, thirty-six dollars.

Leesburg academy, one hundred and fifty dollars.

New London academy, three hundred and ninety dollars.

Randolph Macon college, eleven hundred and eighty-two
dollars.

University of Virginia, cight thousand nine hundred and
sixteen dollars.

Richmond college, two thousand six hundred and forty-one
dollars and three cents.

Hall’s free school, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

P. E. theological seminary and high school, three thousand
five hundred and ninety-tour dollars.

William and Mary college, two thousand and ninety-four
dollars.

School commissioners of Prince William county, eighty-
four dollars.

Hampden Sidney college, five thousand seven hundred and
fifty-four dollars and twenty cents.

Union theological seminary, eight thousand two hundred
and sixty-one dollars and seventy cents.

Miller manual labor school, sixty thousand four hundred
and thirty-three dollars and ten cents.

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical college at Blacks-
burg, twenty ‘thousand six hundred and fifty “eight dollars
and seventy-two cents.

Hampton Normal and Agricultural school, ten thousand
three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents.

To pay one-fourth of the arrears of interest due to Wash-
ington and Lee university on one hundred and _ forty-five
thousand dollar bonds of the state of Virginia, lost at sea in
the steamer Arctic, in eighteen hundred and fifty-four, as per
decree of the circuit court for the city of Richmond, pro-
nounced on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred
and eighty-one, and to carry out the provisions of the act
approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,
entitled an act to préserve “the endowments of the colleges
and other literary institutions of this state, fifty-two thou-
sand two hundred dollars.

To pay balance of arrears of interest to Miller manual labor
school, on unfunded registered bonds of the state under acts
of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and of
March one, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two thousand
one hundred and ninety dollars.

To defray the expenses of engraving the seal of the com-
monwealth in accordance with the requirements of section
one of chapter three of Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, seven hundred dollars.

For the fiscal year ending September thirtieth, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-five:

Agricultural commissioner, contingent expenses of his
office, five thousand dollars.
Attorney-general, for payment of rent of office and all con-
tingent and “traveling expenses in attending to his official
duties , to be paid on account certified, nine hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of his
office. one thousand five hundred dollars.

Board of public works, contingent expenses, two hundred
and fifty dollars: provided, that no proxy of the state in any
internal improvement company shall receive more than fifty
dollars in any one year, in full of all mileage and compensa-
tion.

Board of public wor ‘ks, secretary’s salary, two hundred and
twenty dollars.

Civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars.

Civil prosecutions, one thousand dollars.

Contingent expenses of courts, twenty-five thousand dol-
lars.

Criminal charges, expenses of juries, witnesses, guarding
jails. and so forth, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
The physician to the city jail of Richmond shall not receive
in any one year more that one thousand dollars.

Dawson fund, interest on bonds held tor schools held in
Albemarle and Nelson, two thousand and fifty-two dollars.

Deat, Dumb and Blind institution, fur support. of, thirty-
five thousand dollars.

Escheats, ten dollars. :

General account of revenue, fifty thousand dollars.

Virginia Reports, printing and binding, three thousand
dollars.

Lunatics in jail, ten thousand dollars.

Lunatic asylums:

Central, fifty thousand dollars.

Eastern, in addition to pay patients, eighty thousand dollars.

Western, in addition to pay patients, ninety thousand
dollars.

Medical college of Virginia, at Richmond, one thousand
five hundred dollars,

Military contingent expenses, five hundred dollars.

Militia, adjutant-veneral’s salary, six hundred dollars.

Officers of the government, one hundred and seven thou-
sand two bundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents, as
follows:

Auditor of public accounts, three thousand dollars; ten
clerks in office of auditor of public accounts, ten thousand
seven hundred dollars; porter to basement offices, nine hun-
dred and seventeen dollars and fitty cents; second auditor,
two thousand dollars; first clerk in his office, one thousand
two hundred and eighty dollars; second clerk in his office, one
thousand and forty dollars; third clerk in his office. nine hun-
dred and sixty dollars ; tres asurer, two thousand dollars: first
clerk in his office, one thousand two hundred and cighty
dollars; second clerk in his office, one thousand and forty
dollars; third clerk in his office, nine hundred and sixty
dollars; register of the land office, one thousand five hun.
dred dollars; superintendent of heating apparatus, one thou-
sand dollars; superintendent of public printing, one thousand
two hundred dollars; governor, five thousand dollars; sec-
retary to governor, one thousand two hundred dollars; sec-
retary of commonwealth, two thousand dollars; clerks in
office of secretary of the commonwealth, one of whom
is librarian, (see Acts cighteen hundred and eighty-one—
two, page two hundred and thirty-four.) two thousand dol-
lara: attorney-general, two thousand five hundred dollars;
clerk to attorney genes ral, five hundred dollars; superinten-
dent of public instruction, two thousand dollars; railroad
commissioner, two thousand dollars; clerk to railroad com-
missioner, one thousand two hundred dollars; commissioner
of agriculture, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to
commissioner of agriculture, six hundred dollars; clerk to
senate, one thousand dollars; clerk house of delegates, one
thousand eight bundred dollars; judges supreme court of
appeals—president of court, threé thousand two hundred
dollars; one associate judge, resident of Richmond, four thou-
sand dollars; three associate judees, at three thousand dollars,
nine thousand dollars; traveling expenses, six hundred dol-
lars; circuit judges—thirteen circuit judges, at one thousand
six bundred dollars, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars ;
one circuit judge, two thousand three hundred dollars; one
circuit judge, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one circuit
judge, one thousand two hundred dollars; one circuit judge,
one thousand nine hundred dollars; mile: sre, three thousand
dollars; judee of hustings court of Richmond, two thousand
three hundred dollars; judge of chancery court of Richmond,
two thousand three hundred collars; clerk of court of a
peals at Staunton, four hundred dollars; clerk of court of
appeals at Wytheville, four hundred dollars; clerk of court
of appeals at Richmond, five hundred dollars; clerk of hus-
tings court of Richmond, one thousand dollars; clerk of
chancery court of Richmond, one hundred and sixty dollars;
commonwealth’s attorney of Richmond city, two hundred
and fifty dollars.
Penitentiary :

Criminal charges, five thousand dollars.

Exterior guard, twelve thousand nine bundred and sixty
dollars,

Interior guard, three thousand two hundred and forty dol-
lars.

House expenses, one thousand dollars.

Officers of penitentiary, seven thousand five hundred dol-
lars.

Hire of convicts on public grounds, one thousand dollars.

Pension to Mrs. Boerley, ninety-six dollars, if alive.

Printing records in criminal cases in the court of appeals,
five hundred dollars.

Public printing, fifteen thousand dollars.

Reyister of the land office, contingent expenses, fifty dollars.

Registration of marriages and hirths, five thousand dollars.
Reporter to the court of appeals, fifteen hundred dollars.

Second auditor’s office, contingent expenses, one hundred
and fifty dollars.

Superintendent of public buildings, contingent expenses.
seventy-five dollars.

Secretary of the commonwealth, contingent expenses, two
hundred and fifty dollars.

Secretary of the commonwealth, for clerical services and
library, two thousand dollars.

Treasurer's office, contingent expenses, one hundred dollars.

Treasurer’s oftice, temporary clerk in, it hereafter required
one thousand two hundred dollars.

University of Virginia, annual appropriation, thirty thou.
sand dollars.

Virginia Normal and Colleciate Institute, twenty thousand
dollars, according to the provisions of the act approved March
sixth, eighteen hundred and cighty-two, incorporating said
school: provided that these sums shall be charged against
any appropriation made by any other act passed by this gen
eral assembly in aid of these institutions.

Vaccine agent, six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Virginia military institute, thirty thousand dollars.

For. preservation and cultivation of fish, four thousand dol.
lars.

For pay of police employed in the capitol and state court.
house, and for pay of messenger to the executive department
and to employees about the grounds of the gubernatorial man.
sion and public square, nine thousand five hundred and six
teen dollars.

Janitor to offices of auditor of public accounts and treas.
urer, three hundred and sixty dollars.

To pay annual interest on bonds of the state of Virginia
held by institutions of learning, as follows:

Washington and Lee university, fourteen thousand twe
hundred and five dollars and forty-eight cents.

Virginia military institute, twelve hundred dollars.

Emory and Henry college, thirty-six dollars.

Leesburg academy, one hundred and fifty dollars.

New London academy, three hundred and ninety dollars

Randolph-Macon college, eleven hundred and cighty-twe
dollars.

University of Virginia, cight thousand nine hundred anc
sixteen dollars.

Richmond college, two thousand six hundred and forty-one
dollars and three cents.

Hall's free school, two hundred and cighty-eight dollars

P. E. theological seminary and high school, three thou
sand five hundred and ninety-four dollars.

William and Mary college, two thousand and ninety-fou
dollars.

School commissioners of Prince William county, eighty.
four dollars.
Hampton-Sidney college, five thousand seven hundred and
fifty-five dollars and twenty cents.

Union theological seminary, eight thousand two hundred
and sixty-one dollars and seventy cents.

Miller manual labor school, sixty thousand four hundred
and thirty-three dollars and ten cents.

Virginia agricultural and mechanical college at Blacka-
burg, twenty thousand six hundred and fifty-eight dollars
seventy-two cents.

Hampton normal and agricultural school, ten thousand
three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents.

To pay one-fourth of the arrears of interest due to the
Washington and Lee university on one hundred forty-five
thousand dollar bonds of the state of Virginia, lost at sea in
the steamer Arctic, in eighteen hundred and fifty-four, as per
decree of the circuit court for the city of Richmond, pro-
nounced on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred
and eighty-one, and to carry out the provisions of the act
approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,
entitled an act to preserve the endowments of the colleges
and other literary institutions of this state, fifty-two thousand
two hundred dollars. ;

To pay the expenses incident to the reassessment of the
real estate in the commonwealth, to be made during the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-tive, the sum of fifty thousand
dollars.

2. To pay the interest on the public debt, funded under
the act approved February fourteen, eighteen hundred and
eighty-two, entitled an act to ascertain and declare Virginia’s
equitableshare of the debt, and so forth, a sum sufficient for that
purpose is hereby appropriated. It shall be tho duty of the
commissioners of the sinking fund to meet on the first Mon-
day in April, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and on the
first Monday in every month thereafter, and to determine at
each of such meetings what, if any, sum can be spared from
the treasury, after making ample allowance for all the ex-
penses of the government and of the public schools, and for
the payment of interest upon the three per centum bonds of
the state, issued under the act approved February fourteen,
eightecn hundred and cighty-two. If it be determined by
the said commissioners that there is a surplus in the treas-
ury, after making due allowance as aforesaid, for govern-
ment and school expenses, and interest upon the said bonds
so issued, they shall forthwith certify to the treasurer of the
commonwealth that such sum, not exceeding one hundred
thousand dollars in each month, as they may so determine,
may be drawn from the treasury and invested as herein pro-
vided. The treasurer being so notified, shall, on or before the
twentieth day of the same month, place the said sum to the
credit of the said commissioners.

3. The said commissioners shall, immediately after their
mecting, advertise in at least one newspaper published in
each of the citics of Richmond and Baltimore, daily for ten
days, that they will receive offers for sale of such amount of
the said three per centum bonds as in their judgment. the
sum placed to their credit will enable them to purchase,
and that such offers may be made up to. and including the
nineteenth day of the current month. All such offers shall
be made in writing, shall be sealed, and shall be opened by the
said commissioners, or a majority of them, on the twentieth
day of the month, at noon, in the presence of the governor
of the commonwealth, or in the event of his absence, in the
presence of the secretary of the commonwealth. T he bonds
which are offered at the lowest prices. shall be purchased by
them, to the extent that the fund to their eredit will enable
them to purchase. If the twentieth day of the month falls
on Sunday, or a legal holiday, the said offers shall be opened
on the next day which is not a legal holiday: provided that
the said commissioners may invest the funds placed to their
credit under this act: provided however, that said commis-
sioners shall have authority to reject any and all bids made
in pursuance of this act.

4. All bonds purchased under this act shall be listed on
the minutes of the board, which list shall show the number
and denomination of each bond purchased in each month,
and when so listed, shall be delivered to the treasurer, who
shall label and file the same in separate bundles in his ottice
for safe-keeping. No bond shall be purchased under this act
unless all the *umatured interest coupons shall be attached
thereto, and the bonds so purchased, shall be held as a security
for the payment of the interest on the public debt of the
state as it shall or may have accrued when funded under the
act aforesaid, and the same may be re-sold when necessary,
by the said commissioners, and the proceeds of such re-sale
be so used whenever the finances of the state may so require:
provided that said commissioners may in their discretion
from time to time, when money is required to pay the
interest upon the debt aforesaid, borrow money upon tempo-
rary loans for such purpose, and deposit such bonds as they

may have acquired under this act, as collateral security for
such temporary loan.

5. For bonds so purchased; as well as expenses incurred
under this act, the said commissioners shall, by a special
order entered on the minutes of their proceedings, authorize
the second auditor to issue his warrants upon the treasury
to the persons entitled thereto.

6. The said commissioners shall keep an accurate journal
of their proceedings, and proper books of accounts, and shall
make a proper report of their transactions to e ich session of
the gencral assembly.

7. So much of the public revenue as may be received into
the treasury after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen
hundred and eighty-three, and the surplus of all other appro-
priations made prior to that date, unexpended within the two

‘This word in the enrolled copy is written “matured, “In the engrossed bill,
from which this is printed, and from which the enrolled bill was copied, it is written
w above printed.
fiscal years 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.

8. The payments for support to lunatic asylums, for the
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, January,
April and July, respectively; and it shall be lawful for the
auditor of public accounts to pay to the lunatic asylums, and
to the institution of the deat, dumb and blind, on the first
day of October, eighteen hundred and ecighty-tive, and the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, their
respective quarterly allowance es, Which payments shall be
charged against the appr opriations for their support for the
years eiehteen hundred and eighty-five—six.

9. It shall not be lawful for the auditor of public accounts
to pay to the asylums or other institutions, any money except
as is provided torin this act, or in pursuance of some act
making a special appropriation therefor.

10. The auditor of public accounts is also directed to can-
cel the amount of three thousand two bundred and thirteen
dollars and two cents, due by the former administration of
the Eastern lunatic asylum, on account of transportation of
lunatics.

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

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