Chap. 306.—An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Vir-
ginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial asso-
ciations of this State, having in charge and that expend such money
upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors

[H B 277)
Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be instructed and empowered to draw
his warrant upon the treasury of the State, annually, for the two
years, nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and
nineteen, 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 propel
officers are hereby required .to settle their accounts annually befor
one of the commissioners in chancery of their respective countie
or corporations, who is hereby directed to report same, togethe
with all vouchers, to the auditor of public accounts, which settle
ment shall show the exact work done in caring for these cemeterie
and Confederate soldiers’ and sailors’ graves during the last tw
years, namely, nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundre
and seventeen, and the money expended thereby, and the balance
in the treasury of each of said associations, for which the Stat
made appropriations for such work and care, namely:

Abingdon, ten dollars;

Appomattox, twenty dollars;

Ashland, fifteen dollars;

Bedford City, twenty-five dollars;

Blacksburg, fifteen dollars;

Bristol, twenty-five dollars;

Culpeper, fifty dollars;

Courtland, ten dollars;

Charlottesville, fifty dollars;

Danville, fifty dollars; ,

Emory, twenty-five dollars;

Farmville and High Bridge, twenty-five dollars;

Front Royal, twenty dollars;

Franklin, ten dollars;

Fredericksburg, one hundred dollars;

Gordonsville, Ritty dollars;

Harrisonburg, twenty dollars;
Huguenot Springs, fifteen dollars;

Bethel memorial association of York county, ten dollars;

Louisa, twenty dollars;

Leesburg, twenty dollars;

yynchburg, two hundred dollars;

anassas, seventy-five dollars;

Manassas Junction, seventy-five dollars;

Mount Jackson, twenty dollars;

Martinsville, fifteen dollars;

Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, fifteen dollars;

Norfolk, one hundred dollars;

Portsmouth, fifty dollars;

Petersburg, five hundred dollars;

Pulaski, twenty dollars;

Richmond (Oakwood), five hundred dollars;

Spotsylvania Courthouse, one hundred and fifty dollars;

Stanardsville, ten dollars;

Staunton, fifty dollars;

Suffolk, fifty dollars;

Woodstock, twenty dollars;

Wytheville, twenty dollars;

Winchester, one hundred dollars;

Williamsburg, forty dollars;

Scottsville, twenty-five dollars;

Warm Springs, twenty-five dollars.

2. That the Confederate memorial association may receive the
sum appropriated to them respectively at the season most conducive
to effective use of the money for the purpose for which it is appro-
priated an emergency is declared to exist and this act shall be in
force from its passage.