CHAPTER 463

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-119 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to money derived under the provisions of the “forest reserve act”
approved by Congress on May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and
eight, and to the disposition of such money. 5 098

[S 293]

Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 22-119 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 22-119. All money, or moneys, which shall have already been paid,
or which may hereafter be paid to the State of Virginia, under an act of
Congress, approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, arising
from the forest reserve, shall be paid to the State Treasurer, to be dis-
tributed and disposed of as provided in this section.

The treasurer of each county, in which there is located any land
owned by the United States government and held as a forest reserve, shall
ascertain the area of such land so situated in his county, and the reserve
in which the same is located, and make a report thereof to the Comptroller.
Upon receipt of such information from the Treasurer, the Comptroller
shall apportion all money or moneys undistributed which have been paid,
or which may hereafter be paid to the Commonwealth, under an act of
Congress, approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, and
arising from the forest reserve, among the counties in which the forest
reserve is located, according to the area in each county, or if all of the
funds received from one reservation lies in one county, it shall all be
apportioned to that county, and the Comptroller shall draw his warrant
on the State treasury in favor of the treasurer of each county for the
amount apportioned to such county, and such treasurer shall receive the
same and place the funds to the credit of the public schools of his county, *
which money may be expended by the school board for public school
purposes upon the warrant of its chairman drawn upon the treasurer
of the county, and no appropriation therefor by the governing body of
the county shall be required. The Comptroller shall keep separate accounts
of all funds received by him under such act of Congress.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.