Chap. 470.—An ACT appropriating public revenues for the fiscal
years 1886 and 1887.

Approved March 6, 1886.

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-six and
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, respectively, as well as
the revenue derived from all other sources, and all moneys not
otherwise appropriated, which shall come into the treasury
prior to the first day of October eighteen hundred and eighty-
six, and the first day of October eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, shall constitute a general fund, and be appropriated for
the fiscal years to close on the thirtieth day of September,
eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and the thirtieth day of Sep-
tember, eighteen hundred and eighty- seven, respectively, as
follows, to wit:
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Agricultural commissioner, contingent expenses of his office,
five thousand dollars.

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

Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of his of-
fice, fifteen 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 compensation.

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, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, six hundred
dollars.

Civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars.

Civil prosecutions, one thousand dollars; and the board of
public works is hereby required and directed to employ asso-
ciate 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 rendeied 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 in-
stituted under the act approved January fourteenth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to prevent frauds against
the commonwealth, and the holders of her securities, in the
collection and disbursement of revenue: provided, the compen-
sation 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 common-
wealth’s attorney for such city or county: provided, the com-
pensation therefor shall not exceed the sum of two hundred
dollars per annum. The amount of compensation herein pro-
vided for is hereby appropriated, in addition to the sum of one
thousand dollars appropriated for civil proscutiong 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 fifty thousand dollars. The
physician to the city jail of Richmond shall not receive for this
fiscal 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, two thousand dol-
lars.
General assembly, including salaries of members, officers,
clerk hire, and so forth, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Lunatics in jail, eleven thousand dollars.

Lunatic asylums:

Central, sixty thousand dollars, in addition thereto twenty-
five thousand dollars, out of which shail first be paid, debt now
due for building, four thousand five hundred and ninety-four
dollars and forty-five cents; second to pay debt due September
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, being deficit in
annual appropriation, eight thousand five hundred and twenty
dollars and one cent, the remainder to be expended to com-
plete the asylum establishment, and to purchase furniture, bed-
ding, and so forth.

Eastern, seventy-five thousand dollars, in addition to pay
patients.

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

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

Militia, pay of adjutant-general, six hundred dollars.

Officers of the government as follows:

Auditor of public accounts, three thousand dollars; expert
in auditor’s office, one thousand five hundred dollars; eleven
clerks in office of auditor of public accounts, eleven thousand
six hundred dollars; messenger to basement offices, nine hun-
dred dollars; 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 hundred and sixty dollars; treasurer, two
thousand dollars; first clerk in his office, one thousand two hun-
dred and eighty dollars; second clerk in his office, one thousand
one hundred dollars; third clerk in his office, one thousand and
forty dollars; fourth clerk in his office, nine hundred and sixty
dollars; register of the land office, fifteen hundred dollars, and
to pay for the recordation of plats of surveys received in said
office between the years eighteen hundred and sixty and eight-
een hundred and seventy-nine, and for the re-binding of about
thirty books in said office, two hundred and fifty dollars; super-
intendent of heating apparatus, one thousand dollars; superin-
tendent of public printing (see Acts eighteen hundred and
eighty-one and eighty-two, page five hundred and thirty-nine),
fifteen hundred dollars; governor, five thousand dollars; sec-
retary to governor, twelve hundred dollars; secretary of com-
monwealth, two thousand dollars; clerks in office of secretary
of the commonwealth, one of whom is librarian (see Acts eight-
een hundred eighty-one and eighty-two, page two hundred and
thirty-four), two thousand dollars; attorney general, two thou-
sand five hundred dollars; clerk of attorney-general, one thou-
sand dollars; superintendent of public instruction, two thousand
dollars; railroad commissioner, two thousand dollars; clerk to
railroad commissioner, twelve hundred dollars; commissioner
of agriculture, fifteen hundred dollars; clerk to commissioner
of agriculture, six hundred dollars; clerk to senate, one thou-
sand dollars; clerk to house of delegates, eighteen hundred
dollars; judges of supreme court of appeals—president of court.
three thousand two hundred dollars; one associate judge, resi-
dent of Richmond, four thousand dollars; three associate judges,
at three thousand dollars, nine thousand dollars; traveling
expenses, six hundred dollars; circuit judges—for seventeen cir-
cuit judges, twenty-eight thousand four hundred dollars: pro-
vided, however, that the amount of salaries shall only be paid
as are now or may hereafter be provided by law; mileage three
thousand dollars; judge of chancery court of Richmond, twc
thousand three hundred dollars; clerk of court of appeals, at
Staunton, four hundred dollars; clerk of court of appeals, ai
Wytheville, four hundred dollars; clerk of court of appeals, at
Richmond, five hundred dollars ; clerk of hustings court o
Richmond, one thousand dollars; clerk of circuit court of Rich
mond, four hundred dollars; commonwealth’s attorney of Rich.
mond city, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Penitentiary:

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 thbusand dollars.

Board of directors of penitentiarv, four hundred and fifty
dollars.

Officers of penitentiary, seven thousand five hundred dollars

Hire of convicts on public grounds, one thousand dollars.

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

Public printing, thirty thousand dollars.

Register of land office, contingent expenses, fifty dollars.

For payment for erection and completion of closets in base
ment of capitol, seven hundred and four dollars.

Registration of marriages and births, five thousand dollars.

Reporter to court of appeals, twelve hundred dollars.

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

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

Secretary of the commonwealth, contingent expenses, fiv
hundred dollars.

Treasurer’s office, contingent expenses, one hundred dollars

To furnish the capitol, gubernatorial mansion, attorney-gen
eral’s office, adjutant-general’s office, superintendent of public
printing, commissioner of agriculture, department of public in
struction, with coal, gas and ice, two thousand dollars.

University of Virginia, annual appropriation, forty thousanc
dollars; five thousand dollars of which is hereby set apart, an.
nually, for repairs and improvements on the property of the
institution.

Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (annuity), twenty
thousand dollars.

Virginia Normal Collegiate Institute, for completion of build
ings, thirty-two thousand dollars.
State Female Normal School; ten thousand dollars.

Vaccine agent, six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Virginia Military Institute, thirty thousand dollars; and the
further sum of five thousand dollars to pay the interest, and
for the partial extinguishment of the floating debt of the insti-
tution.

For preservation and cultivation of fish, four thousand dollars.

For-preservation and protection of oysters, and support of
oyster fleet, fifteen thousand dollars.

For pay of police employed in the capitol and state court-
house, and for pay of messenger to executive department, and
to employees about the grounds of the gubernatorial mansion
and public square, eight thousand three hundred and forty
dollars.

Janitor to office of auditor of public accounts and treasurer,
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 two hun-
dred 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, one thousand one hundred and
eighty-two dollars and forty-eight cents.

University of Virginia, eight 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.

Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary and high school,
three thousand five hundred and ninety-four 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 Blacksburg,
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 the literary fund for the use of the public: free schools,
on account of the interest due the fund on Virginia state stock
computed in the act of February fourteen, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, to be three hundred and seventy-nine thousand
two hundred and seventy dollars, due to first July, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, for the school year commencing first
of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred
thousand dollars.

To pay one-half remainder of the arrears of.interest due to
Washington 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 of 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 ap-
proved 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 hun-
dred dollars. }

To pay applications of disabled soldiers, on file February
twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, in the office of
the auditor of public accounts, in class two, under the act ap-
proved February twenty-five, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, entitled an act to give aid tothe citizens of Virginia,
wounded and maimed during the late war, while serving as
soldiers or marines, and remaining unpaid for want of an ap-
propriation, six thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may
be required.

To pay to applicants under act approved February twenty-
four, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, or may be filed by the
first of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, who had lost
arms, and whose applications were rejected by the auditor of
public accounts as not included by the law, but who were enti-
tled under that law, seven thousand dollars.

Applicants shall be paid in the order in which their applica-
tions have been filed. ,

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

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

Attorney-general, fer 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 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 compensation.

Board of public works, 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 dollars.

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

Lunatics in jail, ten thousand dollars.

Lunatic asylums:

‘Central sixty thousand dollars.

Eastern, in addition to pay patients, seventy-five thousand
dollars.

Western, in addition to pay patients, eighty-five thousand
dollars. ‘

Southwestern, thirty thousand dollars.

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

Militia, pay of adjutant-general, six hundred dollars.

Officers of the government as follows:

Auditor of public accounts, three thousand dollars; eleven
clerks in office of auditor of public accounts, eleven thousand
six hundred dollars; expert in office of auditor of public ac-
counts, fifteen hundred dollars; messenger to basement offices,
six hundred dollars; 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 dol-
lars; third clerk in his office, nine hundred and sixty dollars;
treasurer, two thousand dollars; first clerk in his office, one
thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; second clerk in his
office, eleven hundred dollars; third clerk in his office, one
thousand and forty dollars; fourth clerk in his office, nine hun-
dred and sixty dollars; register of the land office, one thousand
five hundred dollars; superintendent of heating apparatus, one
thousand dollars; superintendent of public printing, one thou-
sand five hundred dollars; governor, five thousand dollars;
secretary 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 eighteen hundred eighty-one and eighty-two, page
two hundred and thirty-four), two thousand dollars; attorney-
general, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to attorney-
general, one thousand 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 court, three thousand two hundred dollars; one associate
judge, resident of Richmond, four thousand dollars; three as-
sociate judges, at three thousand dollars, nine thousand dol-
lars; traveling expenses, six hundred dollars; for seventeen
circuit judges, twenty-eight thousand four hundred dollars—
provided, however, that the amount of salaries shall only be
paid as are now or may hereafter be provided by law; mileage,
three thousand dollars; judge of 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 of hustings court of
Richmond, one thousand dollars; clerk of circuit court of
Richmond, four hundred dollars; commonwealth’s attorney of
Richmond city, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Penitentiary:

Criminal charges, five thousand dollars.

Exterior guard, twelve thousand nine hundred 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 dollars.

Three directors, four hundred and fifty dollars.

Hire of convicts on public grounds, one thousand dollars.

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

Public printing, fifteen thousand dollars.

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

Registration of marriages and births, five thousand dollars.

Reporter to court of appeals, one thousand two 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, five
hundred dollars.

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

To furnish the capitol, gubernatorial mansion, attorney gen-
eral’s office, adjutant general’s office, superintendent of public
printing, commissioner of agriculture, department of public in-
struction, with coal, gas and ice, two thousand dollars.

University of Virginia, annual appropriation, forty thousand
dollars; five thousand dollars of which is hereby set apart, an-
nually, for repairs and improvements on the property of the
institution. .

Virginia normal and collegiate institute, on annual support
account, twenty thousand dollars.

State female normal school, ten thousand dollars.

Vaccine agent, six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Virginia military institute, thirty thousand dollars, and the
further sum of five thousand dollars, to pay the interest, and
for the partial extinguishment of the floating debt of the insti-
tution.
; For preservation and cultivation of fish, four thousand dol-
ars.
For preservation and protection of oysters, fifteen thousand
dollars. |

For stamping out pleuro-pneumonia and other infectious ard
contagious diseases to cattle, one thousand dollars, to be ex-
pended by the commissioner of agriculture, upon warrants on
the auditor of public accounts, drawn by the governor and
countersigned by the commissioner of agriculture.

For pay of police employed in the capitol and state court-
house, and for pay of messenger to executive department, and
to employees about the grounds of the gubernatorial mansion
and public square, eight thousand three hundred and forty
dollars.

Janitor to office of auditor of public accounts and treasurer,
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 two hun-
dred and five dollars and forty-eight cents.

Virginia military institute, one thousand two 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, one thousand one hundred and
eighty-two dollars and forty-eight cents.

University of Virginia, eight 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-four dollars.

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

pchool 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 Blacksburg,
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 the literary fund for the use of the public free schools, on
account of the interest due the fund on Virginia state stock
computed in the act of February fourteen, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, to be three hundred and seventy-nine thou-
sand two hundred and seventy dollars, due to first July, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-two, for the school year commencing
first of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hun-
dred thousand dollars.

To pay remainder of the arrears of interest due to Washing-
ton 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, pronounced on the six-
teenth 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.

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 equitable
share of the debt, and so forth, a sum sufficient for that purpose
is hereby appropriated. .

3. So much of the public revenue as may be received into
the treasury after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-five, and the surplus of all other appropria-
tions made prior to that date, unexpended within the two fiscal
years 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 are not herein par-
ticularly provided for.

4. It shall *be the duty of the commissioners of the sinking
fund to meet on the first Monday in April, eighteen hundred
and eighty-six, and on the first Monday in every month there-
after, up to and including the month of April, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-eight, and to determine at each of such meet-
ings what sum, if any, can be spared from the treasury, after
making ample allowance for all the expenses of the govern-
ment, and of the public schools, and for the payment of interest
on the three per centum bonds issued under the act of Febru-
ary fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for all
other appropriations. If it be determined by Said commis-
sioners that there is a surplus in the treasury, after making due
allowance as aforesaid, they shall forthwith certify to the treas-
urer of the commonwealth what sum, not exceeding fifty thou-
sand dollars in any month, they may determine to invest, as
herein provided; and the treasurer shall, on or before the twen-
tieth day of the same month, place the sum so certified to the
credit of said commissioners. The said commissioners shall,
immediately after their meeting, advertise once a week, for two
weeks, in one or more newspapers published in the city of
Richmond, that they will receive offers for the sale of such
amount of the said three per centum bonds, issued under the
act of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
All such offers shall be in writing, and shall be sealed, and shall
be opened by the said commissioners, or a majority of them, at
noon on the twentieth day of the month, in the presence of the
governor of the commonwealth, or in event of his absence, in
the presence of the secretary of the commonwealth. If the
twentieth day of the month falls on Sunday, or on a legal holi-
day, the said offers shall be opened on the next day which is
not a legal holiday. The bonds which are offered at the lowest
prices shall be purchased by the commissioners, to the extent
that the fund to their credit as aforesaid will enable them to pur-
chase; and said commissioners shall have authority to reject
any and all bids made. All bonds purchased under this act,
shall be so listed on the minutes of the board as to show the

‘number and denomination of each, with the date of purchase,
and the price paid, and after being so listed, shall be delivered
to the treasurer, who shall label and file the same in his office.
No bond shall be purchased unless aJl unmatured coupons shall
be attached thereto. All interest now due on the three per
centum bonds heretofore purchased by said commissioners un-
der the previous act, and all interest hereafter accruing thereon,
as well as all interest that may accrue on bonds purchased un-
der this act, shall also be used by said commissioners in carry-
ing out the provisions of this act, in addition to the amounts
to be drawn from the treasury as hereinbefore authorized. For
all bonds so purchased, as well as expenses incurred under this
act, the said commissioners shall, by special order entered on
their minutes, authorize the second auditor to issue his war-
rants upon the treasurer. The said commissioners shall keep
an accurate journal of their proceedings, and proper books of
account, and shall make a full report of their tfansactions to
each session of the general assembly.

s 5. The payments for support to lunatic asylums, for the 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, January. April
and July, respectively; and it shall be lawful for the auditor of
public accounts to pay to the lunatic asvlums, and to the insti-
tutions of the deaf, dumb and blind, on the first day of Octo-
ber, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and on the first day
of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, their respec-
tive quarterly allowances, which payments shall be charged
against the appropriations for their support for the years eight-
een hundred and eighty-seven-eight. 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 for in this act, or
in pursuance of some act making a special appropriation there-
for.

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