Chap. 409.—An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Albemarle county
and the council of the city of Charlottesville to contribute to the erection
of a Confederate monument, and to levy a special tax for the purpose.

Approved February 20, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of supervisors of the county of Albemarle and the council of the city of
Charlottesville be, and are hereby, authorized, in their discretion, to
appropriate out of the county and city funds, respectively, under their
control, such amounts as said bodies may deem expedient for the purpose
of erecting on the court-house square at Charlottesville, Virginia, a
monument in commemoration of the Confederate soldiers of Albemarle
county as enlisted in eighteen hundred and sixty-one, who lost their lives
in battle, in the civil war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, eighteen
hundred and sixty-five, on which monument shall be inscribed the names
of all Confederate soldiers of said county and city who fell in battle in
the service of the Confederate States of America; and for the purpose of
placing in the court-house of said county a tablet containing the names
of all Confederate soldiers from Albemarle county, giving as far as prac-
ticable the companies in which they served, and in what capacity they
served; and that said bodies be authorized to make such appropriation
as they may deem expedient to ascertain a correct list of those who were
killed or mortally wounded in battle, and of all Confederate soldiers of
said county, with a view to proper inscription on said monument and on
said tablet; and that said bodies be authorized to appoint committees
from their own number and from the Confederate veterans and sons of
veterans of said county to carry into effect the objects aforesaid: and
said board of supervisors of Albemarle county and the council of the
city of Charlottesville are authorized, in their discretion, to levy a special
tax on the real and personal property of their respective jurisdictions
for the purposes aforesaid: provided, that the aggregate amount appro-
priated for the purposes aforesaid shall not exceed the sum of two thou-
sand dollars.

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