Chap. 273.—An ACT in relation to the commission to establish the boundary
line between the States of Virginia and West Virginia. [H B 148]

Approved March 16, 1918.

Whereas, the general assembly, by a joint resolution, approved
the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, appointed
James B. Russell, John A. Carson and A. J. Grayson, commissioners
to act jointly with commissioners to be appointed by the State of
West Virginia, to ascertain and locate the true boundary line be-
tween the said States, and direct that any vacancy occurring in the
commission on the part of this State might be filled by the governor
of Virginia; and,

Whereas, two of the members of the said commission on the part
of Virginia having died, and the third declining to serve longer, the
governor of Virginia, April the nineteenth, nineteen hundred and
seventeen, appointed George H. Snarr, S. B. Miley and R. L. Omps,
members of said commission to fill said vacancies, who have served
upon said commission since the time of their said appointment; and,

Whereas, all appropriations heretofore made for the expenses of
said commissioners, have been exhausted Jong prior to the appoint-
ment of the present commissioners; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
sum of seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid upon warrants
of the auditor of public accounts, upon the certificate of the governor
for the expenses of said commissioners.