Chap. 243.—An ACT to appropriate the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of the act to provide a statue of
whert Edward Lee, to be placed in statuary hall at Washington, and to con-
titute a commission to contract for said statue and present the same.

Approved May 15, 1903.

Whereas, the general assembly of Virginia, by an act which beeame
aw on the thirteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and three,
| enact that a statue of Robert Edward Lee be furnished by the State
Virginia to be placed in the National Statuary Hall of the capitol
the United States at Washington, District of Columbia, and did
wide in said act for a committce, composed of members of both houses
the general assembly, to ascertain and report with as little delay as
sible the appropriate kind of statue and its cost, after conference with
ward V. Valentine, the eminent Virginia sculptor; and,
Whereas, the said committee have duly performed the duties imposed
m them by said act, and have reported that in their opinion the ap-
priate kind of statue will be a life-size portrait statue in bronze, and
t such a statue will cost the sum of ten thousand dollars;
|. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sum
ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and
/same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not
erwise appropriated, to be used bv the commission hereinafter con-
uted in the purchase and presentation of said statue and in paying
h expenses as may be necessarily incident thereto.
>. That a commission, to consist of ten members, five of whom shal]
selected from among the present membership of the senate by the
sident thereof, and five of whom shall be selected from among the
sent membership of the house of delegates by the speaker thereof,
and the same is hereby, constituted under the name and style of
© Lee Statue Commission,” with power and authority to choose a

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ign to be submitted by said Edward VY. Valentine, for the said statue
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of Robert Edward Lee, and to contract with said Valentine for said
statue, including a suitable pedestal, at a price not to exceed the said
sum of ten thousand dollars: provided, that said stdtue shall be of
bronze and shall be a life-size portrait statue.

3. The said commission shall choose one of its members as chair-
man and another as secretary, who shall, when authorized by said com-
mission, make an order on the auditor of public accounts for said ap-
propriation in such amount or amounts as said commission may direct,
and the auditor of public acounts is hereby directed, upon presentation
of such order, or orders, duly signed by the chairman and attested by
the secretary of said commission at any time within two vears from the
end of the present session of the general assembly, to draw his war-
rant upon the State treasurer for the payment of said appropriation in
such amount or amounts as may be so ordered: provided, however that
not more than one-third of the said sum of ten thousand dollars,
hereby appropriated, shall be available before the completion of the
said statue.

4. That when said statue and pedestal are completed, the said com-
mission shall cause them to be safely transported to the capitol of the
United States at Washington, and shall there present them to the
federal government as a good- will offering from Virginia to the na-
tion, of “which she forms a loyal constituent part, for the purpose of
being placed, as one of the two statues to which Virginia is entitled,
in the National Statuary Hall, under the terms and according to the
provisions of the statute in such cases made and provided: provided,
however, that said statue shall not be so taken to Washington or pre-
sented to the national government until the time therefor shall be
fixed by joint resolution of both houses of the general assembly.

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