Chap. 247.—An ACT to appropriate six thousand dollars to the Wes-
tern lunatic asylum for improvements.

Approved May 16, 1887.

Whereas it is necessary to purchase new steam boilers,
laundry machinery, and an additional water supply for the
use of the Western lunatic asylum at Staunton, the estimated
cost of which is seven thousand five hundred dollars; and
whereas certain permanent improvements which were con-
sidered necessary by the board of directors of the said asylum,
have been recently made at a cost of more than two thousand
five hundred dollars; and whereas the relief to the said
asylum by the reduction of the number of paticnts confined
therein by the completion of the Southwestern lunatic asylum
at Marion, which was contemplated when the annual appro-
priation to the said Western lunatic asylum was reduced at
the last regular session of the general assembly has not been
afforded, which fact, together with the fact that the receipts
to the said asylum from pay patients have been materially
reduced, renders it impossible for the directors of the said
asylum to pay for the said betterments and improvements
out of its regular revenue; therefore,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the sum of six thousand dollars be and the same is hereby
appropriated to the Western lunatic asylum for the purpose
of paying for the said improvements.

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