Chap. 377.—An ACT to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia
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. [S B 240]

Approved March 22, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
comptroller, department of finance, be instructed and empowered to
draw his warrant upon the treasury of the State, annually, for the two
vears, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight and twenty-nine, 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 required to settle
their accounts annually before one of the commissioners in chancery
of their respective counties or corporations, who is hereby directed to
report same, together with all the vouchers, to the comptroller, depart-
ment of finance, 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 twenty-
six and twenty-seven, and the money expended thereby, and the bal-
ance in the treasury of each of said associations, for which the State
made appropriations for such work and care, namely:

Abingdon, ten dollars; Amelia, fifty dollars; Appomattox, two
hundred dollars; Ashland, seventy-five dollars; Bedford City, fifty
dollars; Blacksburg, fifteen dollars: Blackstone, twenty-five dollars ;
Boydton, fifty dollars; Bristol, twenty-five dollars; Buckingham,
twenty: -five dollars; Carson, fifty dollars; Charlotte, twenty-five dol-
lars; Charlottesville, fifty dollars: Chase City, fifty dollars; Clarks-
ville, fifty dollars; Courtland, ten dollars; Culpeper, fifty dollars ; Cum-
berland, twenty-five dollars; Danville, fifty dollars; Dinwiddie, fifty
dollars; Emory, twenty-five dollars: Fairfax, twenty-five dollars;
Farmville and High Bridge, twenty-five dollars; Fincastle, fifty dol-
lars; Franklin, ten dollars; Fredericksburg, one hundred dollars; Front
Royal, fifty dollars; Gate City, twenty-five dollars; Gordonsville, fifty
dollars; Hampton, one hundred dollars; Harrisonburg, twenty dollars ;
Hillsville, twenty-five dollars; Huguenot Springs, fifteen dollars; In-
dependence, twenty-five dollars; Lancaster, fifty dollars; Leesburg,
forty dollars; Lexington, fifty dollars; Louisa, twenty dollars; Lynch-
burg, two hundred dollars ; Northumberland county, United Daughters
of Confederacy, fifty dollars; Madison, twenty-five dollars; Manassas,
seventy-five dollars; Manassas Junction, seventy-five dollars; Martins-
ville, fifteen dollars ; Monterey, twenty-five dollars; Montgomery, White
Sulphur Springs, fifteen dollars: Mount Jackson, twenty dollars; New
Castle, twenty-five dollars; Norfolk, one hundred dollars; Petersburg,
five hundred dollars; Portsmouth, one hundred dollars; Powhatan,
twenty-five dollars; Pulaski, twenty dollars; Richmond (Oakwood),
five hundred dollars; Scottsville, twenty-five dollars; South Boston,
fifty dollars; South Norfolk, twenty-five dollars; Spotsylvania court-
house, one hundred and fifty dollars; Stanardsville, ten dollars; Staun-
ton, seventy-five dollars; Strasburg, fifty dollars; Suffolk, fifty dol-
lars; Tappahannock, fifty dollars; Tazewell, twenty-five dollars; Vic-
toria, twenty-five dollars; Warm Springs, twenty-five dollars; War-
renton, fifty dollars; Williamsburg, fifty dollars; Winchester, one
hundred dollars; Woodstock, twenty dollars: Wytheville, twenty dol-
lars; Yellow Tavern, Stuart monument, Richmond chapter, United
Daughters of Confederacy, two hundred dollars; York county, Bethel
Memorial Association, ten dollars; Yuma (Wolf grave yard), twenty-
five dollars; Gloucester county, United Daughters of the Confederacy,
twenty-five dollars; Mathews county, United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, twenty-five dollars; Salem, fifty dollars.

Total, four thousand and two hundred and twenty-five dollars.

2. That the. Confederate memorial associations may receive the
sums appropriated to them respectively at the session most conducive
to effective use of the money for the purpose for which it is ap-
propriated, an emergency is declared to exist and this act shall
he in force from its passage.