Chap. 159.—An ACT to organize county and city boards of poor commis-
sioners, and requiring reports from said boards.

Approved March 14, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
shall be organized in every county and city in the Commonwealth a
board of poor commissioners, to be composed of the superintendent of
the poor and the overseers of the poor of the several districts of the
county, and the superintendent of the poor and the poor committee of
the council of the city. The said board shall elect from its members a
chairman and secretary; it shall meet at least twice a year, in the
months of May and November, for the purpose of preparing reports to
be forwarded to the State board of charities and corrections, setting
forth the number of paupers provided for in the preceding six months,
showing color, mental and physical condition, the cause of the poverty
of each, the amount received by the superintendent, the several over-
seers and the poor committees of the cities form the annual levy, and
the amount received from other sources, the amount expended for the
past six months, showing how much was expended at the place of gen-
eral reception, how much for those supported or assisted elsewhere,
and the balance remaining in their hands or under their control, and
they shall embody in their report such other information as may be
required by the State board of charities and corrections.

2. The State board of charities and corrections may prescribe the
form of such report, and it shall be made in that form, and if no form
de prescribed, then in such form as the board of poor commissioners
may adopt, so that it embrace all information required by the preced-
ing section; and for the failure to make such report, the county board
of poor commissioners, or any member thereof, failing to perform his
duties as a member thereof, shall forfeit not less than ten dollars and
not more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered for the use of the
county or city, by motion against them after ten days’ notice in writing.
The State board of charities and corrections shall immediately give
notice of such failure to the proper attorney for the Commonwealth,
who shall at once proceed against the board of poor commissioners or
any of its delinquent members.