Chap. 4.—An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental
expenses of the general assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.

Approved January 29, 1906.

Whereas there are certain contingent and incidental expenses of the
general assembly which cannot be provided for specifically and which
musé be paid; and

Whereas there has been no appropriation made to meet the same; and

Whereas section one hundred and eighty-six of the Constitution pro-
vides that no money shall be paid out of the State treasury, except in
pursuance of appropriations made by law, and section fifty of the Consti-
tution provides that no law shall be enacted except by bill; now, there-
fore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the audi-
tor of public accounts be, and is hereby, directed to issue his warrant
upon the treasurer of the State for such amounts as may be required
for such contingent and incidental expenses as may he provided for by
resolution either of the senate or house of delegates.
2. It is hereby made the duty of the clerk of the senate and clerk of
the house of delegates, respectively, to keep an itemized account and
statement, giving the name of each person receiving any money on ac-
count of any contingent or incidental expense authorized under any and
all resolution or resolutions as may be hereafter adopted by their re-
spective houses in reference to any contingent and incidental expense
thereof; said itemized account and statement shall show also for what
service or account, and have a reference to the resolution authorizing
the same, and shall be appended to the end of the journal of their respec-
tive houses and published therewith as document “A.”

3. It is hereby made the duty of the auditor of public accounts to keep
a separate account of the contingent and incidental expenses of the
senate and house of delegates of Virginia, respectively, as authorized by
resolution as aforesaid, showing the amount expended under each resolu-
tion, and to include the same in his annual report to the governor and
general assembly of Virginia.

4. To pay the expenses above referred to, there is hereby appropriated,
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of
ten thousand dollars, one-half of which shall be set apart for the use of
the senate, and the other half for the use of the house of delegates.

5. There being an emergency for the payment of said expenses, this
act shal] be in force from its passage.