Chap. 187.—An ACT to provide for the purchase of a silver service to be pre-
sented to the battleship Virginia.

Approved March 14, 1906.

Whereas a new battleship has been constructed by the United States
<overnment, to be soon placed in commission, and which has been named
in honor of this State, Virginia, by the president and secretary of the
navy, in compliance with the appeal made to them by the society of the
colonial dames of America in Virginia; and

Whereas said society has presented said battleship with certain silver
table pieces in acknowledgment of said compliance with its request, and
has further memorialized the general assembly to recognize the honor in-
tended the State, in so naming said battleship, by presenting it with a
silver service ; and

Whereas the general assembly deems such gift not only the usual but
also a fitting recognition of what has been so done in honor of the State ;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sum of
five thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated, to be applied to the
purchase of a suitable silver service to be presented to the United States
battleship Virginia.

2. That a commission, consisting of the governor, the attorney-general,
the adjutant-general, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the
house of delegates, be, and is hereby, created, with power and direction to
select and purchase a suitable silver service, not exceeding in cost the said
sum appropriated, to have a proper device and inscription engraved
thereon, and to present said service to said battleship in the name and on
behalf of the State of Virginia.
3. That a committee on presentation of said service in conjunctio:
with said commission be, and is hereby, appointed, to consist of the head
of all State departments not hereinbefore named, the State librarian
three members of the senate, to be named by the president thereof, an
three members of the house of delegates, to be named by the speake
thereof.