Chap. 144.—-An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties
and councils of cities and towns to appropriate money at their dis-
cretion to defray the necessary expenses for the Confederate veterans
of said counties, cities and towns to visit Richmond on June ist, 2nd,
and 38rd, 1915, at the grand reunion of the United Confederate Veterans.

(H. B. 112)
Approved March 18, 1915.

Whereas, the United Confederate Veterans will hold its twenty-first
reunion in the city of Richmond on June first, second, and third, nine-
teen hundred and fifteen, on which occasion the Confederate veterans
from all parts of our country will come; and

Whereas, this will be perhaps the last reunion of the United Con-
federate Veterans ever to be held again in old Virginia; and

Whereas, so many of the old veterans in Virginia are not able to
defray their expenses and they would be glad to come to meet and shake
hands once more with old comrades that they have not seen in fifty
years, now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State and councils
of the cities and towns of the State are hereby authorized in their dis-
cretion to appropriate money out of the county and city or town funds
to defray the necessary expenses of the Confederate veterans of said
counties, cities and towns desiring to attend the reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans in Richmond on June first, second, and third,
nineteen hundred and fifteen. The number of veterans to have their
expenses paid be left to the discretion of the board of supervisors of the
counties and the councils of cities and towns.

2. For this act to be effective it must go into effect at once, as the
ninety days will not have expired before the above dates named, there-
fore an emergency exists and this act shall be in force from its passage.