CHAP. 423.—An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Vir-
ginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial
associations of this State, having in charge and that expend such
money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers
or sailors, approved March 25, 1914. (H. B. 290.)

Approved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the State auditor of public accounts be instructed and em-
powered to draw his warrant upon the treasurer of the State,
annually, for the two years nineteen hundred and fourteen and
nineteen hundred and fifteen, in favor of the treasurers of the
following Confederate memorial associations for the following
sums of money, to be by their respective associations expended
in caring for the cemeteries and graves of the Confederate
soldiers and sailors buried in the cemeteries herein specified;
the said associations through its proper officers are hereby re-
quired to settle their accounts annually before one of the com-
missioners in chancery of their respective counties or corpora-
tions, who is hereby directed to report same, together with all
vouchers, to the State auditor, which settlement shall show the
exact work done in caring for these cemeteries and Confederate
soldiers’ and sailors’ graves during the last two years, namely,
nineteen hundred and twelve and nineteen hundred and thir-
teen, and the money expended thereby, and the balance in the
treasury of each of said associations, for which the State made
appropriations for such work and care, namely, Abingdon, Vir-
ginia, ten ($10) dollars, Appomattox, Virginia, twenty ($20)
dollars, Ashland, Virginia, fifteen ($15) dollars, Bedford City,
Virginia, twenty-five ($25) dollars, Blacksburg, Virginia, fifteen
($15) dollars, Bristol, Virginia, twenty-five ($25) dollars, Cul
peper, Virginia, fifty ($50) dollars, Courtland, Virginia, ten
($10) dollars, Charlottesville, Virginia, fifty ($50) dollars, Dan-
ville, Virginia, fifty ($50) dollars, Emory, Virginia, twenty-five
($25) dollars, Farmville and High Bridge, Virginia, twenty-five
($25) dollars, Front Royal, Virginia, twenty ($20) dollars,
Franklin, Virginia, ten ($10) dollars, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
one hundred ($100) dollars, Gordonsville, Virginia, fifty ($50)
dollars, Harrisonburg, Virginia, twenty ($20) dollars, Hugue
not Springs, Virginia, fifteen ($15) dollars, Bethel Memoria!
Association of York county, Virginia, ten ($10) dollars, Louisa.
Virginia, twenty ($20) dollars, Leesburg, Virginia, twenty
($20) dollars, Lynchburg, Virginia, two hundred ($200) dol-
lars, Manassas, Virginia, seventy-five ($75) dollars, Manassas
Junction, Virginia, seventy-five ($75) dollars, Mount Jackson.
Virginia, twenty ($20) dollars, Martinsville, Virginia, fifteer
($15) dollars, Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Virginia
fifteen ($15) dollars, Norfolk, Virginia, one hundred ($100)
dollars, Portsmouth, Virginia, fifty ($50) dollars, Petersburg
Virginia, five hundred ($500) dollars, Pulaski, Virginia, twenty
($20) dollars, Richmond, Virginia, (Oakwood) five hundrec
($500) dollars, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, one hundred
and fifty ($150) dollars, Stanardsville, Virginia, ten ($10) dol-
lars, Staunton, Virginia, fifty ($50) dollars, Suffolk, Virginia,
fifty ($50) dollars, Woodstock, Virginia, twenty ($20) dollars,
Wytheville, Virginia, twenty ($20) dollars, Winchester, Vir-
ginia, one hundred ($100) dollars, Williamsburg, Virginia, forty
($40) dollars, Scottsville, Virginia, twenty-five ($25) dollars,
and Warm Springs, Virginia, twenty-five ($25) dollars. Pro-
vided, that no association that now or hereafter has its ceme-
teries and graves placed under perpetual care should receive
any portion of this appropriation.