Chap. 103.—An ACT to appropriate the sum of $8,000, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, to defray the expenses of the State board of health.

Approved March 25, 1903.

Whereas by an act approved March seventh, nineteen hundred, chapter
eleven hundred and forty-six, page twelve hundred and forty-eight, of
session acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred,
providing for the appointment of a State board of health and of local
boards of health, defining the duties and powers and compensation
thereof, and of their members and officers and agents, and in section two
of said act it being provided that the expenses of the State board of
health, which shall not in one year exceed the sum of five thousand
dollars, and shall be paid by warrants drawn upon the auditor of public
accounts, signed by the president of said board and countersigned by the
secretary, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated ;
and, | .

Whereas, by a ruling of the attornev-general under section one hundred
and eighty-six of the Constitution of Virginia the expenses of said State
board of health cannot be paid under said act approved March seventh,
nineteen hundred; and on account of which ruling the said State board
of health is without the means whereby to oontinue its existence and
perform its duties; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sum
of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be,
and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any funds in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated to the State board of health to defray its
expenses: provided, that said expenses shall not exceed four thousand
dollars in any one year.

2. The expenses incurred by said State board of health shall be paid
by warrants drawn upon the auditor of public accounts, signed by the
president of the said board and countersigned by the secretary.

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