Chap. 1.—An ACT to provide for the payment of contingent and incidental
expenses of the extra session of the general assembly, and to appropriate
money for the same. (H. B. 9)

Approved January 29, 1915.

Whereas, there are certain contingent and incidental expenses of
the extra session of the general assembly which cannot be provided 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 Constitution
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 enacted except 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 pro-
vided 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 hereafter adopted by their
respective houses in reference to any contingent 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 appended 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 expenses of
the senate and house of .representatives of Virginia, respectively, as
authorized by resolution as aforesaid, showing the amount expended
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 appropri-
ated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the
sum of ten 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.