Chap. 233.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled: an act to em-
power the board of supervisors and judge of the county court of Giles to
authorize the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monument on the
court-house square, at. Pearisburg, Virginia, to the memory of the Con-
federate soldiers of said county, and in their discretion to appropriate
money to aid in the erection of said monument, approved March 28, 1903.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled “an act to empower the board of supervisors and judge of the
county court of Giles to authorize the Daughters of the Confederacy to
erect a monument on the court-house square, at Pearisburg, Virginia,
to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of said county, and in their
discretion to appropriate money to aid in the erection of said monu-
ment,” approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

2. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of supervisors and the judge of the circuit court of Giles county be, and
they are hereby, empowered to grant authority and permission to the
McComas chapter, Grand Division of Virginia United Daughters of the
Confederacy, to erect on the court-house square at Pearisburg, Virginia,
a monument to the memory of the Confederate soldiers of said county,
and that said board is authorized to appropriate out of the revenues of
said county, should they deem it advisable, a sum of money not exceed-
ing five hundred dollars to aid in the erection of said monument to the
memory of the Confederate soldiers of Giles county. Such appropria-
tion may be made as a whole or may be made and paid out by instal-
ments, as the said board may determine, and if the said monument shall
be so erected it shall not be lawful thereafter for the authorities of said
county or any other person or persons whatever to disturb, deface or
interfere with any monument so erected or to prevent said Daughters of
the Confederacy or their successors from taking all proper measures and
exercising all proper means for the protection, preservation and care of
said monument. ;