Chap. 294.—An ACT to appropriate $30,000.00, the unexpended appropriation
heretofore made by the general assemby to provide for the working of
certain long term or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the
penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the
manufacture of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for
the disposition of the same, and the by-products suitable for road con-
struction to the citizens of the State, so as to make this amount avail.
able for that purpose and not lapse into the treasury under the consti-
tutional provision respecting appropriations. (S. B. 346.)

Approved March 25, 1914.

Whereas, the general assembly, by an act approved March the
fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, made provision for the
working of certain long-term or desperate convicts by the superin-
tendent of the penitentiary, the governor and the commissioner of
ugriculture, for the manufacture of ground limestone and oyster
shells, and incidentally for the disposition of the same and the by-
products suitable for road construction to the citizens of the State,
and appropriated the sum of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars for
the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of the act; and,

Whereas, there is now in the treasury of the Commonwealth
thirty thousand dollars appropriated to that purpose, which sum
will lapse into the treasury to the credit of the general fund of the
Commonwealth unless re-appropriated; and,

Whereas, owing to litigation, which involved the constitution-
ality of said act, approved March the fourteenth, nineteen hundred
and twelve, it has not been proper or possible to put into effect said
act, according to terms thereof;

Whereas, the supreme court of appeals has sustained said act
and pronounced the sanie constitutional; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby ap-
propriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, for carrying out the provisions of the act of assembly,
namely, chapter two hundred and ninety-five, acts of nineteen hun-
dred and twelve; to provide for the working of certain long-term
or desperate convicts by the superintendent of the penitentiary, the
governor and the commissioner of agriculture, for the manufacture
of ground limestone and oyster shells, and incidentally for the dis-
position of the same, and the by-products suitable for road construc-
tion, to the citizens of the State.

2. The use of this money being immediately needed, an emer-
gency exists; therefore this act shall be enforced from its passage.