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; to a civil contingent fund,

; to militia establishment, including services of clerks of courts of enquiry, adjutants,

24 sergeant-majors, provost martials and expresses, for the purchase of military equipments when au25 thorized by law, and the pay of musicians, where the fines of the regiments are insufficient, and 26 and also including the pay of the adjutant general,

33 public warehouses, including pay of superintendents and repairs,

34 thousand dollars; to civil prosecutions, including clerks and sheriffs' fees,

35 hundred dollars; for the collection and transportation of arms,

hundred dollars; to

hundred dol

36 lars; as a military contingent fund, including claims for services during the last war,

37

hundred dollars; for the support of the Western lunatic asylum at Staunton, subject to thousand dollars; for

38 a deduction for clothing furnished at the penitentiary,

39 the support of the lunatic asylum at Williamsburg, subject to a deduction for clothing furnished at thousand dollars: which appropriations for support shall be

40 the penitentiary,

41 drawn or paid quarterly in advance; to the manufactory of arms for the rent of water from the 42 James river company,

43 transportation and maintenance of lunatics confined in county jails,

; for the

47

thousand dollars; to defray the charges or expenses of transporting luna

48 tics to the asylums at Williamsburg and Staunton,

thousand dollars;

49 to the institution for the deaf and dumb and the blind, there being no Literary fund surplus appli

50 cable to the object,

51 appeals,

dollars; for printing records for the court of

dollars; for the publication of the third volume of Grattan's

52 reports, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for the repairs of the governor's house,

53

dollars; to the clerk of the select committee to investigate the charges dollars; to the superintendent of public

54 against judge James H. Gholson,

55 edifices, for the person who made fires in and superintended the furnaces of the senate and house 56 of delegates during the present session,

dollars; to

57 pay the third and fourth instalments for the completion of the deaf and dumb and blind institution,

2. Be it further enacted, That so much of the public revenue, and all other moneys not other2 wise appropriated by law, as may be received into the public treasury after the thirtieth day of 3 September next, and the surplus of all other appropriations heretofore made, shall constitute a ge4 neral fund to defray such expenses authorized by law as are not herein particularly provided for, 5 and to defray the current and other expenses of the commonwealth in the fiscal year which will 6 commence on the first day of October next and terminate on the thirtieth day of September one 7 thousand eight hundred and forty-eight; and the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized 8 and required to issue his warrants in the same manner as if the sums had been specifically men9 tioned, subject to such exceptions, limitations and conditions as the general assembly may deem it 10 proper to annex and prescribe by law: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be so 11 construed as to authorize the auditor of public accounts to issue a warrant or warrants in satisfac12 tion of any judgment or decree of any court of law or equity against the commonwealth, for a sum 13 exceeding three hundred dollars, without a special appropriation by law.

3. Be it further enacted, That if the revenue of the Fund for internal improvement shall at any 2 time be insufficient to meet the payment of the interest charged on the said fund as it shall become 3 due upon loans obtained for the purposes of internal improvement, under existing or future acts of 4 the general assembly, such interest shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise 5 appropriated; and the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and required upon the re6 ceipt of the order or orders of the Board of public works, certifying the fact of such insufficiency

7 in the funds of said board, to issue his warrant or warrants in their favour for the necessary sum or 8 sums, which shall be placed to the credit of the Fund for internal improvement in the treasury, to 9 be applied by the said board on the warrants of the second auditor towards the payment of such 10 interest.

4. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.

What number may adjourn, (rule 9,)
83, 87 When house adjourns, speaker to pass first,
(rule 10,)

246 Committee, how many, (rule 27,)

Quorum of committee, (rule 29,)

4 Committee appointed,

79 His annual report of strength and condition
of militia communicated by governor,