Chap. 3.—An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental
expenses of the genera: assembly, and to appropriate money for the same.
(H. B. 4.)

Approved January 29, 1914.

Whereas, there are certain contingent and incidental expenses
of the general assembly which cannot be peorided for specifically
and which must be paid; and

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

Whereas, section one hundred and eighty-six of the Constitu-
tion provides that no money shall be paid out of the State treasury
except in pursuance of appropriations made by law, and section
fifty of the Constitution provides that no law shall be exacted ex-
cept by bill; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts be, and he 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 be 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 account of any contingent or incidental expense
authorized under any and all resolution or resolutions as may be here-
after adopted by their respective houses in reference to any con-
tingent 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 ap-
pended to the end of the journal of their respective 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 ex-
penses of the senate and house of delegates of Virginia, respectively,
as authorized by resolution as aforesaid, showing the amount ex-
pended under each resolution 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 ap-
propriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of seventeen 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 shall be in force from its passage.