CHAP. 177.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 925 of the Code of
Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1908, and as fur-
ther amended by an act approved February 25, 1910. (H. B. 417.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section nine hundred and twenty-five of chapter forty-two of
the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March
fifth, nineteen hundred and eight, and as further amended by
an act approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and
ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 925. Court house, clerk’s office and jail to be provided
by the supervisors and council; providing for offices for treas-
urer, commissioner of the revenue, Commonwealth’s attorney,
sheriffs, division superintendents of schools, and commissioners
of accounts, if deemed proper by supervisors and council; va-
cant rcoms may be let for offices and provisions made for pub-
lic entertainments.

There shall be provided by the board of supervisors for
every county and the council for every city, a courthouse, clerk’s
office and jail, the cost whereof, and of the land on which they
may be, and of keeping the same in good order, shall be charge-
able to the county or city; the fee simple of the lands shall be
in the county or city, and the supervisors of the county or the
council of the city, may purchase so much land as, with what it
has, will make two acres, whereof what may be necessary for
the purpose, shall be occupied with the courthouse, clerk’s office
and jail and the residue planted with trees, and kept as a place
for the people of the county or city to meet and confer together;
provided, however, the board of supervisors of any county, or
the council of any city, may, if such board or council deem it
proper, provide offices for the treasurer, commissioner of the
revenue, Commonwealth’s attorney, sheriff, commissioner of
acounts, division superintendent of schools, for such county or
city; and provided, further, that with the approval of the judge
of the circuit or corporation court, any vacant rooms in the
courthouse may be rented for a term not exceeding one year
to other parties for office purposes, and any public room or hall
in the building may be hired for compensation for the purpose
of giving public entertainments, and all moneys received by
the counties or cities under this act, shall constitute a fund to
maintain and care for such building.

2. Anemergency existing because some of the officers named
are without office quarters, this act shall be in force from its
passage.