1918 (Acts of Assembly, 1918, chap. 426, pp. 776-778) .......---

For construction and reconstruction of State highways and to meet
Federal aid, to be paid from the proceeds of special taxes, in-
cluding the two cents per gallon tax on motor vehicle fuels,
segregated by law, for the construction and reconstruction of
State highways, as estimated by the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts; provided that no part of this appropriation shall be
paid out of the general fund of the State treasury.$3,885,000 00

9,975 00

297,660 00

75,000 00

* 700,000 00
/maintenance of State highways to be paid from the proceeds
of special taxes, segregated by law, to the maintenance of
State highways, as estimated by the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts; provided that no part of this appropriation shall be
paid out of the general fund of the State treasury .$3,750,000 00
the construction of roads and bridges embraced in the several
county highway systems of the State, to be paid from the pro-
ceeds of the one cent tax per gallon on motor vehicle fuels, in
accordance with the provisions of the act approved March 26,
1923 (Acts of Assembly, 1923, Extra Session, chap 107, pp. 125-
129), as estimated by the Auditor of Public Accounts; provided
that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out of the gen-
eral fund of the State treasury___.___._.._.___-_- $1,050,000 00
Out of the amounts above appropriated for the construction
and for the maintenance of State highways, the State Highway
Commission may pay the valid awards made by the Industrial
Commission of Virginia in favor of the employes engaged in
such work and the dependents of killed employes so engaged,
as provided under the provisions of the workmen’s compensa-
tion act.
Total for the State Highway Commission (out of the gen-
eral fund of the State treasury)_-._...--.---..------- ‘

CONSERVATION AND CUSTODIANSHIP

Commission of Fisheries

expenses of administration of the Commission of Fisheries--.--§

Out of this appropriation shall be paid the following sala-
ries and special compensations only:

Commissioner of Fisheries____..._.._--.------ $ 2,500 00
Shellfish Commissioner__._._..._._.---------- 1,800 00
Other members of the Commission of Fisheries

(3), not exceeding $200 each per annum..--. 600 00
Stenographers (2), not exceeding._._.__.------ 2,400 00
Additional employes, not exceeding..______---- 5,800 00

protection of oyster beds and fish_..____.__....-_-..---------

It is provided that out of this appropriation there is hereby
appropriated:
For salaries, wages and special compensations,
. not exceeding. ____.-._. 2-2 eee eee $ 29,820 00

improvement of oyster beds._._..._...-_.__-_-__--------------

Total for the Commission of Fisheries..........---------- ‘

It is provided that out of the total appropriation of sixty-
seven thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, hereby made
to the Commission of Fisheries, there shall be set aside a sum
sufficient to meet the expenditures provided for by sec. 3271 of
the Code of Virginia (1919).
It is further provided that all revenues collected by the
Commission of Fisheries, all other laws or parts of laws to the
contrary notwithstanding, shall be placed in the general fund
of the State treasury; and it is provided further that the total
appropriations of sixty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy
dollars, hereby made to the Commission of Fisheries, shall be
paid out of the general fund of the State treasury.

Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

For protection and propagation of game and inland fish, as required
by law, to be paid out of the fees, licenses and taxes levied and
collected for the support of the Department of Game and In-
land Fisheries and paid into the State treasury in accordance
with law; provided that no part of this appropriation shall be
paid out of the general fund of the State treasury-_-$195,750 00

It is provided that out of this appropriation the following
salaries shall be paid:

Commissioner of Game and Inland Fisheries

(Commissioner of Fisheries).........----- $ 600 00
Secretary, not exceeding._.....--_...--..--.-. 3,000 00
Auditor, not exceeding........... ..-----.---- 2,000 00

For enforcement of the dog law, to be paid out of the fees, licenses
and taxes levied and collected for the support of the Depart-
ment of Game and Inland Fisheries and paid into the State
treasury in accordance with law; provided that no part of this
appropriation shall be paid out of the general fund of the State

It is provided that out of this appropriation the following
salaries shall be paid:
Commissioner of Game and Inland Fisheries

(Commissioner of Fisheries)...._...._.-_- $ 900 00
Field secretary, not exceeding.._......_-..--- 2,000 00
Registrar of the Land Office

(Ex-officio Superintendent of Grounds and Public Buildings and Superintendent

of Weights and Measures)
For providing ice, fuel, light and water for the Capitol, Library and
State Office buildings, Governor’s House and power plant

For issuing and recording instruments of title to public lands in ac-
cordance with law_.....-----.-.-------------------------. ee

Out of this appropriation shall be paid the following sala-

ries only:
Registrar of the Land Office_._._..------_-.-- $ 3,000 00
Clerk, not exceeding. -.---..-------.---------- 1,500 00

For maintenance and operation of the Capitol grounds and public
butldings _. ._ an eccnwemenmeee nen emesseeeen eee eee

26,100 00

4,615 00

68,220 00
Out of this appropriation shall be paid the following sala-

ries and special compensations only:

Capitol Police

Policeman (1), not exceeding.........-...-_- $

Policemen (5), not exceeding $1,380.00 each--_
Capitol Building

Elevator conductor and watchman (1), not ex-

ceeding._._.....------.----------- 2 eee $
Janitors (3), not exceeding $1,000 each... .____.
Capitol Power Plant
Superintendent, not exceeding..............-- $

Assistant superintendent, not exceeding. --__..-
Engineman, not exceeding--...........--..-.-
Firemen (3), not exceeding $1,200 each. _._.__-
Additional employes, not exceeding_.........-

State Library Building

Elevator conductors and watchmen (2), not ex-

ceeding $1,260 each._...........-.--.--.-. $

Night watchman (1), not exceeding-.......-.-
Attendant and watchman for Supreme Court of

Appeals (1), not exceeding..._.....-....--
Janitors (2), not exceeding $1,000 each. .____-_-

State Office Building

Superintendent, not exceeding-------..-.--..- $

Mechanic and elevator man (1), not exceeding.
Elevator conductor and night watchman (1),

not exceeding._.......-..-..-------------
Elevator conductors (8), not exceeding $1,080

Substitutes for regular employes while on leave
of absence for not exceeding two weeks per
annum with pay, not exceeding-----------

Additional employes, not exceeding..._......-

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It is further provided that out of this appropriation there

is hereby appropriated:

For general repairs to buildings and grounds...$ 12,500 00

For improvement to walks and driveways in
Capitol grounds...........--.--.--.--.-..
For care and repair of trees in Capitol grounds.

Total for the Registrar of the Land Office_.__...

State Geological Commission

For development of the mineral and forestry resources of the Com-

monwealth.___._........_...__-..-_----- ee ne eee ee nee $

Out of this appropriation shall be paid the following salary

only:
Secretary of the State Geological Commission,

not exceeding. ._..............-....--..-- $ 600 00

State Forester

For protection and development of the forest resources of the Com-
monwealth in accordance with the provisions of chap. 28 of

the Code of Virginia (1919)_..._.....-- 2-2 ee eee $

Out of this appropriation shall be paid the following sal-
aries, wages and special compensations only:

State Forester_......----------.------------- $ 3,000 00
Assistant State Forester, not exceeding....... 3,000 00
Second Assistant Forester, not exceeding. -.--.-- 3,000 00

State Geological Survey

For geological surveying in accordance with secs. 828-833, inclusive,

of the Code of Virginia (1919)_...._.._...-..-. 2-22-22 ee $

. Out of this appropriation shall be paid the following sal-
aries, wages and special compensations only:

State Geologist, not exceeding..___._..._..-_- $ 2,000 00
Assistant State Geologist, not exceeding. - ___- 1,800 00
Clerk, not exceeding. ._.........--.-----...-- 1,500 00
Additional employes, not exceeding. _..__.___- 1,930 00

It is further provided that out of this appropriation there
is hereby appropriated:
For topographic mapping in co-operation with
the United States Geological Survey... -.-- $ 10,000 00

EXAMINING AND LICENSING

State Board of Medical Examiners

For regulating the practice of medicine in accordance with the

provisions of chap. 68 of the Code of Virginia (1919)_......_.- $

State Board of Pharmacy

For regulating the practice of pharmacy in accordance with the

provisions of chap. 70 of the Code of Virginia (1919)_.__.....- $

Out of this appropriation shall be paid the following sal-
aries and special compensations only:

Secretary-treasurer .._.....--..-------------- $ 2,500 00

Stenographer, not exceeding.____...__._...--.- 720 00

700 00

20,240 00

24,665 00

3,600 00

6,165 00
Members of the State Board of Pharmacy, per
diem, in accordance with the provisions of
section 1670 of the Code of Virginia (1919),
not exceeding._.......-.-..-_.-..--_----- $ 500 00

Additional employes, not exceeding. -____-- _ 85 00
MISCELLANEOUS

Board for the Erection of Historical Markers in Virgir

placing suitable markers at places of historical interest in
Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of the act approved
March 4, 1922 (Acts of Assembly, 1922, chap 127, pp. 210-

Confederate Memorial Associations

caring for the graves of Confederate dead in accordance with
the provisions of the act approved March 16, 1920 (Acts of
Assembly, 1920, chap 209, pp. 301-302), a sum sufficient______- $

Confederate Museum at Richmond
the care of Confederate collections, and the maintenance of
the Virginia rooms at the Confederate Museum at Richmond _.-_$
Co-operative Education Association of Virginia

promoting rural school and civic improvement in the Com-
monwealth of Virginia_......-.....-_------------------------ $

It is provided that this appropriation shall be inclusive
of all funds received by the Co-operative Education Associa-
tion of Virginia from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and in
lieu of any and all contributions from the respective State
departments, institutions or other State agencies.

Home for Needy Confederate Women at Richmon¢

care of needy Confederate women in accordance with the pro-
visions of the act approved March 4, 1914 (Acts of Assembly,
1914, chap 40, p. 60).-_.--_------------------ eee $

Richmond, Eye, Ear and Throat Infirmary at Richmo

the free care and treatment of indigent Virginia patients suffer-
ing from serious diseases of the eye, ear and throat____._____- $

Travelers’ Aid Society of Danville

‘the Travelers’ Aid Society of Danville, for providing aid for
travelers
the Travelers’ Aid Society of Lynchburg, for providing aid for
travelers. ._..___...-_--- eee eee eee $

Travelers’ Aid Society of Newport News

the Travelers’ Aid Society of Newport News, for providing aid
for travelers__.__..__...._-...-----2---- ee eee eee eee $

Travelers’ Aid Society of Norfolk

the Travelers’ Aid Society of Norfolk, for providing aid for
travelers._.._._.__._..-.-_---_----- eee eee eee $

Travelers’ Aid Society of Petersburg

the Travelers’ Aid Society of Petersburg, for providing aid for
travelers._______...__.-.-_------.--.-- +--+ +e eee eee $

Travelers’ Aid Society of Portsmouth
the Travelers’ Aid Society of Portsmouth, for providing aid
for travelers.__.__._...--___.--- wenn een en een e eee eee eee ee $
Travelers’ Aid Society of Roanoke
the Travelers’ ‘Aid Society of Roanoke, for providing aid for
travelers.____.._..--. 1-2 eee eee ee eee $
Travelers’ Aid Society of Staunton
the Travelers’ Aid Society of Staunton, for providing aid for
travelers_..._..-.- 22-2 eee eee eee eee $
Travelers’ Aid Society of Virginia at Richmond
the Travelers’ Aid Society of Virginia at Richmond, for pro-
viding aid for travelers...............------.---------------- $
Virginia Crop Improvement Association

the Virginia Crop Improvement Association for the improve-
ment of Virginia crops..........-...------.------------------ $

It is provided that this appropriation shall be inclusive
of all funds received by the Virginia Crop Improvement As-
sociation from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and in lieu of
any and all contributions from the respective State depart-
ments, institutions or other State agencies.

Virginia Home for Incurables at Richmond

the Virginia Home for Incurables at Richmond for care of
incurables ..-.......------------ wee een nen eee nee eee ene $
the Virginia State Dairymen’s Association for promoting
dairy development and furthering the interests of dairying in
Virginia. ..----.- eee eee {

It is provided that this appropriation of five hundred
dollars shall be inclusive of all funds received by the Virginia
State Dairymen’s Association from the Commonwealth of
Virginia, and in lieu of any and all contributions from the
respective State departments, institutions or other State
agencies.

Virginia State Fair Association

the Virginia State Fair Association, Inc., for providing State
premiums, which is to be applied towards the payment of said
premiums upon the agricultural, horticultural, live stock and
poultry exhibits to be offered, in the name of the Common-
wealth of Virginia at the annual exhibitions of said Associa-

It is provided that the Governor of Virginia, and four
others, to be appointed by him, two from the State Board of
Agriculture and Immigration, and two from the board of
directors of the Virginia State Fair Association, Inc., shall
constitute a committee of five to determine the number, amount
and character of premiums provided for in this appropriation
of five thousand dollars. The said committee shall receive
no compensation for their services.

It is provided further that the appropriation of five thou-
sand dollars hereby made shall be subject to payment to the
Virginia State Fair Association, Inc., upon order of the com-
mittee, herewith provided for, by warrant of its chairman.

Virginia State Horticultural Society

the Virginia State Horticultural Society for promoting horti-
cultural development and furthering the interests of horticul-
ture in Virginia.....---.-2-- 2 ee eee eee |

It is provided that this appropriation of four thousand
five hundred dollars shall be inclusive of all funds received by
the Virginia State Horticultural Society from the Common-
wealth of Virginia, and in lieu of any and all contributions
from the respective State departments, institutions or other
State agencies.

Total appropriations out of the general fund of the State
2. The appropriations provided for in this act for making loans to
students at the several State institutions shall be expended, upon such
terms, and according to such rules, as may be prescribed by the respect-
Ive governing boards of the institutions for which the appropriations are
made, in making loans to needy and deserving students of talent and
character from Virginia in said institutions for the purpose of aiding
these to obtain an education at such institutions, who might not be able
otherwise to do so. Such loans shall not exceed $200.00 in any one
session to the same student; and they shall be made to said students
upon such terms, as to time and security, as the authorities of the re-
spective institutions shall determine in each case; provided, however,
that the rate of interest charged said students on such loans shall be
4 per centum per annum.

The said State students’ loan funds shall be preserved from depletion
by the said institutions; and, together with the repayments and accre-
tions thereto, shall be held and used for the purpose specified in this act
and no other; and each of the said institutions shall annually, not later
than July in each year thereafter, file in the office of the Superintendent
of Public Instruction.a statement, in detail, showing for the year past
the amounts received by said funds, or the loans made, to whom made,
and upon what terms, the amount of the corpus of said fund, the
amounts repaid to said funds, and from whom, and any other informa-
tion deemed pertinent by the institution so reporting, or which may
have been requested by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The Auditor of Public Accounts shall make no payment to any of
the said institutions on account of the said students’ loan funds unless
and until{the institution applying for such payment shall have furnished
the said Auditor of Public Accounts a certificate from the Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction that such institution has complied in all

cts with the foregoing requirements of this act in relation thereto.

The State Accountant shall annually audit and exhibit in his annual
report the account of the said funds at each of the said institutions.

3. All public revenue received into the State treasury within the
two appropriation years provided for in this act, with the exception of
the revenue segregated by law to special purposes, and the balance of
the appropriations made by previous acts of the general assembly un-
expended at the close of business on the twenty-eighth day of February,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, which unexpended balances are
hereby declared to be lapsed into the State treasury, are hereby desig-
nated the general fund of the State treasury of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, and shall be used for the payment of the appropriations pro-
vided for in this act, subject to the limitations and upon the conditions
set out in this act.

4. The appropriations for the maintenance and operation of public
institutions and the hospitals for the insane shall be paid in monthly
installments, but the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized
and required to pay the special or extraordinary items provided for in
the appropriations, other than for “support” to the institutions and
hospitals for the insane in monthly installments, or otherwise, as, in his
judgment, the condition of the State treasury will permit.
5. No State department, institution or other agency receiving
appropriations under the provisions of this act shall exceed the amount
of its appropriations, except in an emergency, and then only with the
consent and approval of the Governor in writing, first obtained; and if
any such State department, institution or other agency shall exceed the
amount of its appropriation without such consent and approval of the
Governor, there shall be no reimbursement of said excess, nor shall
there be any hability or obligation upon the State to make any appro-
priation hereafter to meet such deficit, and the members of any govern-
ing board of any State department, institution or other agency, or, if
there be no governing board, the head of any State department, institu-
tion or other agency, making any such excessive expenditures—in the
case of members of governing ‘boards, who shall have voted therefor—
shall be personally liable for the full amount of such unauthorized defi-
cit, and, in the discretion of the Governor, shall"*be deemed guilty of
neglect of official duty, and be subject to removal therefor.

It shall not be lawful for the Auditor of Public Accounts to pay any
State department, institution or other agency, including the State hos-
pitals for the insane and the State Colony for Epileptics and the Feeble-
Minded at Colony, any money except as is provided for in this act, or
in pursuance of some act of the general assembly making special appro-
priation therefor.

6. The proper officer of each State department, institution or other
agency, for which appropriations are made, shall, in his annual report,
give an itemized account of the expenditures out of such appropriations
for such State department, institution or other agency, classified and
itemized in accordance with the budget classifications adopted by the
Governor; and every such officer of this State for whose department,
institution or agency appropriations are hereby made, shall make an-
nually a report of all other sums received by such department, institu-
tion, officer, or other agency from any source, and such reports and ac-
counts shall embrace the expenditure of all funds appropriated, including
the interest on bonds held by such State departments, institutions, ofh-
cers, or other agencies, and hereinbefore directed to be paid to them,
which reports shall be forwarded to the general assembly and laid before
both houses at each session thereof.

7. None of the monies mentioned in this act shall be expended for
any other purposes than those for which they are specifically appro-
priated, and it shall be the duty of the Governor, as chief budget officer
of the State, or his deputy, to see that this provision is strictly observed;
and, should he find that the said monies are not being expended in
accordance with the provisions of this act, he is hereby given the power
to restrain the Auditor of Public Accounts from making further dis-
bursements, in whole or in part, out of said appropriations, to the offend-
ing State department, institution, officer or other agency receiving ap-
propriations under the provisions of this act; provided, however, that
the several appropriations made by this act out of the general fund of
the State treasury may not only be used for the purposes specified ir
this act, but authority is hereby given to the governing board of any
State department, institution or other agency, or, if there be no govern.
ing board, to the head of such department, institution or other agency
named in this act, to transfer, within the respective department, in-
stitution or other agency, any such appropriations from the object for
which specifically appropriated or set aside to some other object deemed
more necessary in view of later developments, subject, however, in
every case, to the consent and approval of the governor, in writing,
first obtained; and provided that the total amount appropriated to the
respective department, institution or other agency shall in no case be
exceeded; and, further provided, that should appropriations be with-
held by the governor from any State department, institution, officer,
or other agency, named in this act, as herein provided, or should trans-
fers be authorized by the governor, as herein provided, he shall set
forth fully, in each case, the reasons for withholding said appropriations
or for authorizing the transfer of said appropriations, as the case may
be, in the next budget submitted to the general assembly in accordance
with law. ;
_ §. All the appropriations herein made for the two years ending
respectively on February 28, 1925, and on February 28, 1926, unex-
pended at the close of business on February 28, 1926, shall revert to
and become a part of the general fund of the State treasury of the Com-
monwealth of’ Virginia, and shall not thereafter be paid by the auditor
of public accounts; and the same shall be charged off upon the books
of his office.

9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
act be and the same are hereby repealed.

10. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 426.—An ACT to authorize the boards of supervisors of counties to enact
special and local legislation for the protection of the public roads, ways and
bridges of the said counties, and for the regulation of traffic thereon. [H B 350]

Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, that the board
of supervisors of the several counties are authorized and empowered to
enact such special and local legislation in their respective counties not
in conflict with general law regulating the speed of automobiles or other
motor vehicles over the roads of the Commonwealth or with regulations
promulgated pursuant to law, as they may deem expedient to protect
the public roads, ways and bridges of the said counties from encroach-
ment or obstruction, or from any improper, unusual or injurious use.

2. Any violation of such local legislation shall be deemed an offense
against the county whose board of supervisors enacted the same, and
shall be punished by a fine of not less than two dollars and fifty cents
nor more than one hundred dollars, payable to the county, or by im-
prisonment in jail not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.

ang All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed
as abrogating or repealing the right of any county to enact or enforce
ordinances and by-laws under existing laws.