Chap. 340.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of the Code of Virginia, re-
lating to commencement of statutes.

Approved December 3, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section four
of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§ 4. Commencement of statutes—Every act of assembly, except a gen-
eral appropriation act, shall take effect ninety days after the adjourn-
ment of the session of the general assembly at which it is enacted, unless
in case of an emergency (which emergency shall be expressed in the body
of the act) the general assembly shall otherwise direct by a vote of four-
fifths of the members voting in each house. Such vote shall be taken
by the yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for and
against entered on the journal.

A general appropriation act shall take effect from its passage, unlees
another day for the commencement thereof be particularly mentioned
in the act itself. And the day on which every act becomes a law shall be
noted in the publication next after the title thereof.

2. This act shall be in force on and after the thirteenth day of Jan-
uary, nineteen hundred and four.