Chap. 931.—An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the two fis«
years ending, respectively, on September 30, 1900, and September 30, 1901

Approved March 7, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That t
public taxes and arrears of taxes due prior to the first day of Octob
nineteen hundred, and nineteen hundred and one, respectively, as well
the revenue derived from all other sources, and all moneys not otherw
appropriated which shall come into the treasury prior to the first d
of October, nineteen hundred, and the first day of October, nincte
hundred and one, shall establish a general fund and be, and the sai
is hereby, appropriated for the fiscal year to close on the thirtieth d
of September, nineteen hundred, and the thirtieth day of Septemb
nineteen hundred and one, respectively, in the following manner a
for the following uses—to wit:

For the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of September, ninete
hundred:

Governor, salary of, five thousand dollars.

Governor’s secretary, salary of, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Attorney-general, salary of, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Attorney-general, salary of clerk to, nine hundred dollars. _

Attorney-general, contingent expenses of office, exclusive of mileage,
two hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, salary of, three thousand dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, clerks in office, eleven thousand dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of office, one thou-
sand five hundred dollars.

Auditor (second), salary of, one thousand three hundred dollars and
commissions allowed by law.

Auditor (second), clerks in office, three thousand two hundred and
eighty dollars.

Auditor (second), contingent expenses of office, two hundred dollars.

Treasurer, salary of, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars
and commissions allowed by law.

Treasurer, clerks in office, five thousand dollars, which shall include
compensation of the funding clerk under funding acts of eighteen
hundred and eighty-two and eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

‘Treasurer, contingent expenses of office, two hundred dollars.

Secretary of the commonwealth, salary of, two thousand dollars and
commissions allowed by law.

Secretary of the commonwealth, clerks in office of, one of whom shall
be hbrarian, three thousand dollars.

Secretary of the commonwealth, contingent expenses of office, six
hundred dollars and for file cases and other necessary fixtures and re-
pairs in office five hundred dollars.

Register of the land olfice, salary of, one thousand two hundred
dollars and fees from his office not to exceed three hundred dollars.

Register of land office, contingent expenses, three hundred dollars.

Board of public works, contingent expenses of office, including salary
of secretary, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Receiving and forwarding document clerk and messenger, eleven
hundred dollars.

Janitor to capitol building offices, three hundred and sixty dollars.

Janitor in galleries, capitol, three hundred and sixty dollars.

Conductor of elevator, capitol, six hundred dollars.

Fireman of elevator, capitol, six hundred dollars.

Six policemen at capitol, four thousand six hundred and eighty dol-
lars, one of whom shall be clerk to the register of the land office.

One night watchman for library building, seven hundred and twenty
dollars.

One night watchman at court of appeals and second floor library
building, four hundred and eighty dollars.

Janitor and doorkeeper at library, three hundred and sixty dollars.

Janitor at library offices, salary of, three hundred and sixty dollars.

To pay premiums on policies of insurance expiring in nineteen hun-
dred and nineteen hundred and one, including insurance and inspection
of elevators, one thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and
fifty cents.

Conductor of elevator at library building, salary of, six hundred
dollars.

Fireman at library building, salary of, seven hundred and twenty-five
dollars: provided, that he keep up fires till six postmeridian.
Policeman at library building, salary of, six hundred dollars.

Messenger to governor, six hundred dollars.

Labor at executive mansion, two hundred dollars.

Four telephones in public buildings, one hundred and thirty-two
dollars.

Ice, fuel, and lights in public buildings and offices, three thousand
dollars.

Commissioner of railroads, salary of, two thousand five hundred
dollars.

Commissioner of railroads, salary of clerk to, one thousand eight
hundred dollars.

Commissioner of railroads, contingent expenses of office, one thousand
dollars.

Commissioner of agriculture, salary of, one thousand five hundred
dollars and commissions allowed by law not to exceed five hundred
dollars. His clerk, salary of, five hundred dollars, which, with all other
salaries and expenses of the bureau of agriculture, shall be paid from
the fees and taxes collected on fertilizers if sufficient for the purpose;
if not, they shall be paid pro rata from said funds; but in no event
shall such salaries and expenses, or any part thereof, be paid out of
the public treasury. Should there be any excess from said taxes and
fees on fertilizers, the same shall be appropriated as provided by law.

Adjutant-general, salary of (to be paid out of military fund), two
thousand dollars, which shall include the salary now fixed by statute.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of, one thousand five hun-
dred dollars.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of clerk, six hundred
dollars.

Superintendent of public instruction, salarv of, two thousand dol-
lars. For the purposes of the commissioner of labor five hundred dol-
lars in addition to the sum allowed by statute.

Penitentiary.

Officers, salary of, eight thousand five hundred and eighty dollars,
including salary of matron and clerks.

Guards, exterior and interior, twenty-one thousand six hundred dol-
lars; three directors, salary of, four hundred and fifty dollars.

Clerk of senate, including salary allowed him by code, one thousand
four hundred dollars.

Clerk of house of delegates, salary of, one thousand six hundred
dollars.

Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals.

President of court, three thousand two hundred dollars.

One associate judge, a resident of Richmond, four thousand dollars.

Three associate justices, at three thousand dollars each, nine thousand
dollars.

Stenographer to court of appeals, salary of, one thousand two hundred
dollars.

Traveling expenses of judges, six hundred dollars.
Circuit Judges.

Eleven circuit judges, at one thousand six hundred dollars each,
seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.

Two circuit judges, at two thousand three hundred dollars each, four
thousand six hundred dollars.

One circuit judge, at two thousand two hundred dollars.

One circuit judge, at one thousand eight hundred dollars.

Two circuit judges at one thousand nine hundred dollars each, three
thousand eight hundred dollars.

Mileage of circuit judges, three thousand dollars.

Judge of chancery court of Richmond, two thousand three hundred
dollars.

Judge of the court of law and equity of Richmond, two thousand
three hundred dollars.

Judge of the court of law and chancery, Norfolk city, two thousand
dollars.

Reporter of supreme court of appeals, one thousand two hundred
dollars.

Clerk of supreme court at Staunton, three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Clerk of supreme court at Wytheville, three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Clerk of supreme court at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

Clerk of the circuit court at Richmond, four hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses of courts, twenty-eight thousand dollars, or as
much as mav be necessary.

Civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars.

Criminal Charges.

To pay transportation for criminals to penitentiary, six thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Criminal charges, including expenses of juries, witnesses, and so
forth, and also prison associations of Virginia, two hundred and forty
thousand dollars, but not more than five hundred dollars per year shall
be paid to the jail physicians of Richmond or Norfolk.

Public printing, twenty-five thousand dollars.

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

Virginia reports, to pay printing, binding, and so forth, three thou-
sand dollars.

Oysters, protection of, maintenance of steamers and vessels, twenty
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid
out of the ovster tax, and in no event is any portion of same to be
paid otherwise than out of said oyster tax.

General Account of Revenue.

To pay commissions to commissioners of the revenue, postage, and
express charges on land and property books, and so forth, fifty thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For the registration of marriages, births, and deaths, one thousand
dollars.

Pensions.

To pay pensions, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, to be
expended under the provisions of the act passed by the general assembly.

Lunatics.

Support of lunatics in jail and in charge of private persons, cost of
ccmmission of lunacy, and so forth, twenty thousand dollars.

State Hospitals (for the insane).

Central, eighty thousand dollars; and for new building and for other
necessary ‘improvements, twenty- five thousand dollars.

Eastern, in addition to pay patients, seventy-five thousand dollars;
and for new laundry, oven, and vegetable house, eight thousand dollars.

Western, in addition to pay patients, ninety-five thousand dollars;
and to pay existing deficit, five thousand dollars.

Southwestern, in addition to pay patients, fifty-five thousand dollars,
two thousand five hundred dollars of which shall be used for repairs
and equipment.

The superintendents and other officers and employees of the respective
hospitals shall each annually receive a salary, to be paid out of the
amounts appropriated to the institutions, respectively, as follows—to
wit: The superintendent of the Western, two thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars; the superintendent of the Central, two thousand two
hundred and fiftv dollars; the superintendent of the Eastern, two thou-
sand dollars: and the superintendent of the Southwestern, eighteen
hundred dollars, and where thev occupy buildings on the grounds or
belonging to the respective institutions, they shall pav therefor such
rental as may be fixed by the board of the respective institutions; the
first and second assistant physicians shall each receive a salary not
exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; the third
assistant physician shall receive a salary not exceeding nine hundred
dollars per annum; the stewards of the Western and Central asylums
shall each have a salary not exceeding one thousand dollars; and the
stewards of the Eastern and Southwestern asylums shall each receive
a salary not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum; the clerks
shall receive a salary not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars per
annum. Said clerks shall perform the duties of secretary to the boards
of the respective institutions. The engineer shall receive a salary not
exceeding seven hundred dollars per annum.

The officers named in this sub-section shall, in addition to the salaries
mentioned, receive their board and lodging at the respective hospitals,
but they shall not receive any additional perquisites or emoluments.
Institutions of Learning.

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

State female normal school, fifteen thousand dollars; and for in-
firmary, bath-rooms, steam laundry, steam-heating apparatus and gym-
nasium, twenty thousand dollars.

University of Virginia, fifty thousand dollars, which shall include
the ten thousand dollars provided by an act approved January twentv-
third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; university of Virginia, for
erection of an electric plant, and to extend the steam-heating apparatus,
ten thousand dollars.

Virginia military institute, thirty thousand dollars, which shall
include expenses of board of visitors, except as to the expenses of the
adjutant-general and superintendent of public instruction, whose ex-
penses shall be paid as provided by law. And out of the amount hereby
appropriated shall be provided necessary sanitary improvements not to
cost more than five thousand dollars.

Richmond eye infirmary, for the relief of indigent persons and pupils
of the deaf and blind institutions suffering from diseases of the eve,
one thousand five hundred dollars.

Virginia school for deaf and blind, forty thousand dollars, and the
additional sum of four thousand dollars to pay deficit and the sum of
twelve hundred dollars for steam heating and laundry.

Agricultural, mechanical and polytechnic institute at Blacksburg.
Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars, for insurance, and maintenance of
building and equipment.

Virginia normal and collegiate institute, fifteen thousand dollars.

William and Mary college, fifteen thousand dollars, which sum is to
include the allowance of ten thousand dollars authorized by an act
approved the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight:
and for heating and lighting apparatus and water supply, ten thousand
dollars additional.

Publie schools, two hundred thousand dollars: this sum to be turned
over to the state board of education, and by that board apportioned
’ to the public free schools of the several counties and cities of the com-
monwealth, except, however, two thousand five hundred dollars thereof,
which said board is authorized to expend for the maintenance of summer
normal institutes.

To Confederate soldiers’ home, annuity, thirty thousand dollars,
under act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and five
thousand dollars additional, making a total of thirty-five thousand
dollars; and the Pickett camp ladies’ auxiliary, one thousand dollars,
to be used to aid in the purchase of a home for Confederate widows.

To pay the interest on the public debt, funded under the acts ap-
proved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; Feb-
ruary twenticth, eichteen hundred and ninety-two; January thirty-first,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and January twenty-third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, a sum sufficient for that purpose is hereby
appropriated.

For the fiscal vear ending on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen
hundred and one:
Governor, salary of, five thousand dollars.

Governor’s secretary, salary of, one thousand two hundred d
Attorney-general, salary of, two thousand five hundred dollars
Attorney-general, salary of clerk to, nine hundred dollars.
Attorney-general, contingent expenses of office, exclusive of m.
vo hundred dollars.

Auditor of public accounts, salary of, three thousand dollars.
Auditor of public accounts, clerks in office, eleven thousand d
Auditor of public accounts, contingent expenses of office, one
nd five hundred dollars.

Auditor (second), salary of, one thousand three hundred dolla1
mmissions allowed by law.

Auditor (second), clerks in office, three thousand two hundre
ghty dollars.

Auditor (second), contingent expenses of office, two hundred d:
Treasurer, salary of, one thousand seven hundred and fifty d
1d commissions allowed by law. |
Treasurer, clerks in office, five thousand dollars, which shall iz
mpensation of the funding clerk under funding acts of eig
indred and eighty-two and eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
‘Treasurer, contingent expenses of office, two hundred dollars.
Secretary of the commonwealth, salary of, two thousand dollar
missions allowed by law.

Secretary of the commonwealth, clerks in office of, one of whom
- librarian, three thousand dollars.

Secretary of the commonwealth, contingent expenses of offic
indred dollars.

Register of land office, salary of, one thousand two hundred d
id fees from his office not to exceed three hundred dollars.
Register of land office, contingent expenses, three hundred d.
Board of public works, contingent expenses of office, including
secretary, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Receiving and forwarding document clerk and messenger,
indred dollars.

Janitor to capitol building offices, three hundred and sixtv doll
Janitor in galleries, capitol, three hundred and sixty dollars.
Conductor of elevator, capitol, six hundred dollars.

Fireman of elevator, capitol, six hundred dollars.

Six policemen at capitol, four thousand six hundred and «
lars, one of whom shall be clerk to the register of the land offi
One night watchman for library building, seven hundred and t
ars.

One night watchman at court of anpeals and second floor 1:
ilding, four hundred and eighty dollars.

Janitor and doorkeeper at library, three hundred and sixty doll
Janitor at librarv offices, salary of. three hundred and sixty d
Conductor of elevator at librarv building, salary of, six hu
ars. |

Fireman at library building, salarv of, seven hundred and tv
e dollars: provided that he keep up fires till six postmeridian.
Policeman at library building, salary of, six hundred dollars.

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Messenger to governor, six hundred dollars.

Labor at executive mansion, two hundred dollars.

Four telephones in public buildings, one hundred and thirty-two —
dollars. |
Ice, fuel, and lights in public buildings and offices, three thousand
dollars.
Commissioner of railroads, salary of, two thousand five hundred

dollars.

Commissioner of railroads, salary of clerk to, one thousand eight
hundred dollars.

Commissioner of railroads, contingent expenses of office, one thou-
sand dollars.

Commissioner of agriculture, salary of, one thousand five hundred
dollars, and commissions allowed by law not to exceed five hundred.
His clerk, salary of, five hundred dollars, which, with all other salaries
and expenses of the bureau of agriculture, shall be paid from the fees
and taxes collected on fertilizers if sufficient for the purpose; if not,
they shall be paid pro rata from said funds; but in no event shall such
salaries and expenses, or any part thereof, be paid out of the public
treasury. Should there be any excess from said taxes and fees on fer-
tilizers, the same sha]! be appropriated as provided by law.

Adjutant-general, salary of (to be paid out of military fund), two
thousand dollars, which shall include the salary now allowed by statute.

Superintendent of public printing, salary of, one thousand five hun-
dred dollars.

‘Superintendent of public printing, salary of clerk, six hundred dol-
Jars.

Superintendent of public instruction, salarv of, two thousand dollars.
For the purposes of the commissioner of labor, five hundred dollars
in addition to the sum allowed by statute.

Penitentiary.

Officers, salary of, eight thousand five hundred and eighty dollars,
including salary of matron and clerks.
; Guards, exterior and interior, twenty-one thousand six hundred

ollars.

Three directors, salary of, four hundred and fifty dollars.

Clerk of senate, including salary allowed him by code, one thousand
four hundred dollars.

Clerk of house of delegates, salary of, one thousand six hundred
dollars.

Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals.

President of court, three thousand two hundred dollars.

One associate judge, a resident of Richmond, four thousand dollars.

Three associate judges, at three thousand dollars each, nine thousane
dollars.

Stenographer to court of appeals, salary of, one thousand two h-»
dred dollars. |

Traveling expenses of judges, six hundred dollars.
Circuit Judges.

Eleven circuit judges, at one thousand six hundred dollars each,
seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.

Two circuit judges, at two thousand three hundred dollars each,
four thousand six hundred dollars.

One circuit Judge, at two thousand two hundred dollars.

One circuit judge, at one thousand eight hundred dollars.

Two circuit judges at one thousand nine hundred dollars each, three
thousand eight hundred dollars. ,

Mileage of circuit Judges, three thousand dollars.

Judge of chancery court of Richmond, two thousand three hundred
dollars.

Judge of the court of law and equity of Richmond, two thousand
three hundred dollars.

Judge of the court of law and chancery, Norfolk city, two thousand
dollars.

Reporter of supreme court of appeals, one thousand two hundred
dollars.

Clerk of supreme court at Staunton, three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Clerk of supreme court at Wytheville, three hundred and twenty
dollars.

Clerk of supreme court at Richmond, five hundred dollars.

Clerk of the circuit court,at Richmond, four hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses of courts, twenty-eight thousand dollars, or as
much as may be necessary.

Civil contingent fund, ten thousand dollars.

Criminal Charges.

To pav transportation for criminals to penitentiary, six thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Criminal charges, including expenses of juries, witnesses, and so
forth, and also prison associations of Virginia, two hundred and forty
thousand dollars, but not more than five hundred dollars per year shall
be paid to the jail physicians of Richmond or Norfolk.

Public printing, eighteen thousand dollars.

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

Virginia reports, to pay printing, binding, and so forth, three thou-
sand dollars.

Ovsters, protection of, maintenance of steamers and vessels, twenty
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as mav be necessary, to be paid
out of the ovster tax, and in no event is any portion of same to be paid
otherwise than out of said oyster tax.

General Account of Rerenue.

To pay commissions to commissioners of the revenue, postage, and
express charges on land and property books, and so forth, fifty thou-
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the registration of marriages, births, and deaths, one thousand
dollars.
Pensions.

To pay pensions, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, to
he expended under the provisions of the act passed by this general

assembly,
Lunatics.

Support of lunatics in jail and in charge of private persons, cost of
commission of lunacy, and so forth, ten thousand dollars.

Slate Hospitals (for the ensane).

Central, eighty-five thousand dollars.

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

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

Southwestern, in addition to pay patients, fifty-five thousand dollars,
two thousand five hundred dollars of which shall be used for repairs
and equipment.

The superintendents and other officers and employees of the respective
hospitals shall each annually receive a salary, to be paid out of the
amounts appropriated to the institutions, respectively, as follows—to
wit: The superintendent of the Western, two thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars; the superintendent of the Central, two thousand two
hundred and fifty dollars; the superintendent of the Eastern, two
thousand dollars; and the superintendent of the Southwestern, eighteen
hundred dollars, and where they occupy buildings on the grounds or
belonging to the respective institutions, they shall pay therefor such
rental as mav be fixed by the board of the respective institutions; the
first and second assistant physicians shall each receive a salary not
exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; the third
assistant physician shall receive a salary not exceeding nine hundred
dollars per annum; the stewards of the Western and Central asylums
shall each have a salary not exceeding one thousand dollars; and the
stewards of the Eastern and Southwestern asylums shall each receive
a salary not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum; the clerks shal!
receive a salarv not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars per
annum, Said clerks shall perform the duties of secretary to the board:
of the respective institutions. The engineer shall receive a salary not
exceeding seven hundred dollars per annum.

The officers named in this sub-section shall, in addition to the salaries
mentioned, receive their board and lodging at the respective hospitals,
but they shall not receive any additional perquisites or emoluments.

Institutions of Learning.

Medical colleve of Virevinia, at Riehmond, five thousand dollars.
State female normal school, fifteen thousand dollars.

University of Virginia, fifty thousand dollars, which shall include
the ten thousand dollars provided by an act approved January twenty-
third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

Virginia military institute, twenty-five thousand dollars, which shall
include expenses of board of visitors, except as to the expenses of the
adjutant-general and superintendent of public instruction, whose ex-
penses shall be paid as provided by law, and which shall also include
repairs to buildings, and so forth.

Richmond eye infirmary, for the relief of indigent persons and pupils
of the deaf and blind institutions suffering from diseases of the eye,
one thousand five hundred dollars. |

Virginia school for deaf and blind, forty thousand dollars.

Agricultural, mechanical and polytechnic institute at Blacksburg,
Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars, for insurance, and maintenance of
building and equipment.

Virginia normal and collegiate institute, fifteen thousand dollars.

William and Mary college, fifteen thousand dollars, which sum is to
include the allowance of ten thousand dollars authorized bv an act
approved the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and eie¢hty-eight.

Public schools, two hundred thousand dollars; this sum to be turned
over to the state board of education, and by that board apportioned to
the public free schools of the several counties and cities of the common-
wealth, except, however, two thousand five hundred dollars thereof,
which said board is authorized to expend for the maintenance of suin-
mer normal institutes.

To Confederate soldiers’ home, annuity, thirty thousand dollars,
under act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and five
thousand dollars additional, making a total of thirty-five thousand
dollars.

To pay the interest on the public debt, funded under the acts ap-
proved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and cizhty-two; Feb-
ruary twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; January thirty-first,
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and January twenty-third, eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, a sum sufficient for that purpose is hereby
appropriated.

2. So much of the public revenue as may be received into the treasury
after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,
and the surplus of all other appropriations made prior to that date
unexpended within the two 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.

3. The annuities to the public institutions of the state and to the
state hospitals for the insane shall be paid in monthly instalments;
and it shall be lawful for the auditor of public accounts to pay to said
institutions and hospitals their monthly allowances on the first day of
the months of October, November, and December, nineteen hundred,
and of January, February, and March, nineteen hundred and one, which
payments shall be charged against the appropriations for the ycars
nineteen hundred and nineteen hundred and one: provided, that any act
in force hereafter at the date when such payments or any of them are
required to be made, and directing a different manner of payment, shall
supersede this section and control the manner of payment by the
auditor to said institutions and hospitals.

4, It shall not be lawful for the auditor of public accounts to pav to
the state hospitals or other institutions any money except as 1s pro-
vided for in this act, or in pursuance of some act making a special ap-
propriation therefor. And the proper officer of each public institution
of the state for which appropriation is hereby made shall, in their
annual reports to the governor, give an itemized account of the expendi-
tures of such appropriations for their respective institutions; and every
oflicer of the state for whom department appropriations, are hereby
made shall make annually a report to the governor covering an itemized
account of the expenditures of such appropriations, and all other sums
received by such institution, department or officers, and from any
scurce, and the governor shall forward the reports to the general as-
sembly, and such reports and accounts shall embrace the expenditures
of all funds appropriated, including the interest on bonds held by such
institutions and hereinbefore directed to be paid to them.

5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed.,

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