Chap. 122.—An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the several
counties of this Commonwealth to appropriate county funds to secure his-
torical and physical descriptions of their respective counties, and to edit
and publish the same, for distribution at the Jamestown tercentennial ex-
position and elsewhere, and to select and prepare exhibits of the industrial,
agricultural, mineral, and commercial resources of their respective coun-
ties, to be exhibited at the Jamestown tercentennial exposition.

Approved March 10, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘That the boards
of supervisors of several counties of this Commonwealth, in laying the
annual levy for the year nineteen hundred and six, may include in said
estimates a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for each
county, for the purpose of securing historical and physical descriptions
of said counties, and editing and publishing the same for distribution at
the Jamestown tercentennial exposition and elsewhere, and the selection
and preparation of exhibits of the industrial, agricultural, mineral and
commercial resources, to be exhibited at the said Jamestown tercen-
tennial exposition.

* 2. The historical and physical descriptions of said counties shall include

among other things, as follows: Date of formation; from what territory
formed; notable incidents in its history; in what grand division of the
State situated; distances from the city of Richmond, and from Hamp-
ton roads, and from the nearest general market town, and lines of com-
munication with the same; area in acres, open or forest; geology; gen-
eral character of soil; minerals; general products; particular industries:
average production per acre of usual crops; topography; mileage of rail-
roads, electric lines, turnpikes and graded roads; population, white and
colored, in nineteen hundred; assessed value of real and personal prop-
erty in nineteen hundred and six; number and value of farm animals and
stock in nineteen hundred and six; number of soldiers, white and col-
ored, respectively, that enlisted in the Confederate and Union armies; and
such other information as may be deemed pertinent by the respective
boards of supervisors.

3. Said boards of supervisors of such counties that may determine
to prepare such historical and physical descriptions of their respective
counties and the selection of said county exhibits, are hereby authorized
to co-operate with the Jamestown exposition company, and shall notify
the president of the Jamestown exposition company of their intention
so to do, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the Jamestown exposition
company to have distributed at and during the period of said exposition.
such pamphlets containing the historical and physical data as may be sent
hy the respective boards of supervisors to the Jamestown exposition com-
pany for distribution; and said boards of supervisors shall also notify
the Virginia commission for the Jamestown tercentennial exposition of
their intention to prepare such historical and physical descriptions of
their respective counties and the selection of said county exhibits, and
it shall be the duty of said Virginia commission for the Jamestown
tercentennial exposition to co-operate with and assist said boards of
supervisors in such manner as they may deem wise and expedient, in the
selection of said county exhibits, and the said commission for the said
Jamestown tercentennial exposition shall arrange for the installation
and exhibition of the said county exhibits for the said Jamestown ex-
position.

+. Immediately upon the approval of this act by the governor, the
clerk of the house of delegates shall cause two thousand extra copies of the
same to be printed, and shall forthwith mail twenty copies for the chair-
man of the board of supervisors in each county of the Commonwealth.

5. And because of an emergency in the time limit in which this act
may be rendered effective, the same shall be in force from its passage.