Chap. 103.—An ACT to continue in force and to again appropriate the ten
thousand dollars heretofore appropriated by an act approved March 9,
1908, entitled an act to make an appropriation to provide for the erection
of a monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa., to commemorate the
services of Virginia troops in the battle on that field (no part thereof
having been expended up to this time); also to approve the design of the
monument selected by the committee appointed under said act of March
9, 1908, and to authorize and direct said committee to contract for the
erection of said monument and to appropriate the further sum of forty
thousand dollars for that purpose.

Approved March 9, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the sum
of ten thousand dollars, appropriated by act of March ninth, nineteen
hundred and eight, entitled an act to make an appropriation to provide
for the erection of a monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsyl-
vania, to commemorate the services of Virginia troops in the battle on
that field (no part thereof having been expended up to this time), be, and
the same is hereby, continued in force, and the said ten thousand dollars
is hereby again appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated for the purposes set forth in said act, and to carry out
the contract between said committee and the artist, F. W. Sievers.

2. Be it further enacted, That the design for a monument in the
national military park at Gettysburg, to commemorate the deeds of Vir-
ginia soldiers on that field, reported by the committee appointed in ac-
cordance with the act approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and eight,
be, and the same is hereby approved, and the said committee is authorized
and directed to contract for the erection of Band monument as represented
in their report.

3. The said committee having represented that the said monument,
according to the design as submitted by them, can be erected and ready
for unveiling for a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, the further
additional sum of forty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury on and after the first day of March, nineteen hun-
dred and eleven, not otherwise appropriated, but none of said sum of
forty thousand dollars shal! be available or subject to the order of said
committee for two years from fifteenth of February, nineteen hundred
and ten.

31%. Provided, that to the committee already created by the act of
March ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, the name of Governor Mann
be added.

4. The said committee shall receive no compensation for their services,
but shall be allowed and paid the actual and necessary expenses incurred
by them in the performance of their duties, to be audited by the auditor
of Virginia, and paid out of the appropriation herein provided for.

5. An emergency existing therefor by reason of the necessity for con-
tracting for the monument at early day, this act shall be in force from
its passage.