YEAS-Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Wm. A., Bailey, Baker, Beattie, Boschen, Bowles, Brewer, Brown, J. Callaway, Brown, J. Sinclair, Buck, Buhrman, Burke, Carner, Carrington, Carter, Cato, Cherry, Clement, Cornett, Crockett, Davis, Deans, Dillard, Dodson, Easley, Elam, Evans, Fitzhugh, Flanagan, Forester, Fuller, Gilliam, Gilmer, Gilpin, Goodwin, Hall, Channing W., Henley, Hobbs, Hundley, Deane, Hunter, Jones, Mann, Marshall, Martin, McNutt, Meetze, Miller, Murray. Musgrave, Noland, Norris, Omps, Owen, Pence, Pitts, Price, Ragland, Ramsey, Reed, Shackelford, Shumate, Smith, Harry B., Snead, Stant, Stephenson, Stuart, Stubbs, Jas. N., Stubbs, R. H., Taylor, Tiffany, Turner, Walton, Williams, Willis, Winston, Wright, Mr. Speaker-78.

NAYS-Messrs. Bond, Commins, Dickerson, Gordon, Hundley, P. J., Ozlin,

Russell-7.

MR. BREWER moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed; which was rejected.

On motion of MR. STEPHENSON, the House adjourned.

HARRY R. HOUSTON,

Speaker of the House of Delegates.

JNO. W. WILLIAMS,

Clerk of the House of Delegates.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1918.

Prayer by Rev. H. D. C. Maclachlan, pastor of the SeventhStreet Christian Church.

On motion of MR. FULLER, the reading of the Journal was dispensed with.

THE SPEAKER and Clerk signed the Journal as provided by Rule 3.

A communication from the Senate, by their Clerk, was read as follows:

In Senate, February 26, 1918. The Senate have receded from their amendment proposed to House joint resolution proposing amendment to section 184 of the Constitution of Virginia.

They have passed House bills entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, No. 5; an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend section 3730 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to pulling down fences or leaving gates open, and

so forth, approved February 16, 1892, No. 22; an act to prohibit the sale of water by one city to the inhabitantst, firms, corporations or industries of another city, and the right to occupy and use the streets, lanes, parks or other public places in the latter city without the consent of the council of said city, No. 92; an act authorizing the councils of the cities of this Commonwealth having, by the last United States census, a population in excess of 65,000 inhabitants and less than 100,000 inhabitants, to establish, erect, construct and maintain armory buildings and stables and other buildings necessary and convenient therefor, and to ratify and confirm the establishment, erection and construction of armory buildings and other structures necessary thereto, heretofore made by the council of any said city, and authorizing the issuance of bonds for the said sites and buildings heretofore acquired and erected, No. 131; an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county to appropriate money to a Confederate monument, approved February 20, 1908, and amended by an act of the General Assembly approved February 5, 1916, No. 135; an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 20, 1916, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to invest, use and apply any part of the sinking fund created and set apart for the purpose of redeeming the principal of the $700,000 issue of thirty-year Wise county road bonds, dated February 1, 1911, in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of the $130,000 issue of thirty-year Wise county road bonds issued for the Richmond magisterial district, dated March 1, 1913, and in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of the $130,000 issue of Wise county road bonds issued for the Gladeville magisterial district, dated March 1, 1913, and to grant to the board of supervisors of said county the additional authority to invest, use and apply any part of said sinking fund, and any part of any sinking fund now or hereafter created and set apart for the purpose of redeeming the principal of any road bonds of said county now or hereafter issued for the said county, or for any of the magisterial districts thereof, in and to the purchase and holding of any part or parts of such county or district road bonds now or hereafter issued, and in and to the purchase and holding of any school bonds now or hereafter issued by any school district of said county, No. 184; an act to provide for the expenditure of any surplus of the 1915 bond issue which may remain in the hands of the road board of Bluestone magisterial district of Meck

lenburg county, No. 189; an act to appropriate the sum of $170,687 to the State hospitals for the Insane and the Virginia Colony for Epileptics, and the State Colony for the Feeble-minded, to meet the deficits in maintenance of these institutions for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918, No. 149; and an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for making, building and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county, approved March 6, 1900, and as further amended by an act approved March 14, 1904, approved March 13, 1908, No. 191.

And they have passed with amendments House bills entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 4 of an act entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law on May 21, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1910, and as further amended and reenacted by an act approved February 9, 1912, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 4 of an act concerning corporations, No. 26; and an act to repeal all acts giving to the boards of supervisors of the various counties the power to regulate or control hunting and fishing, to provide for open and closed seasons for taking game and fish, to protect game, fish, song and insectivorous birds, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof, No. 187; in which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.

Nos. 26 and 187.

Hous bills were, on motions severally made, placed on the calendar.

No. 35. Senate bill to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal injuries or death sustained by employees in the course of employment; to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to create an industrial board for the administration of this act and to prescribe the powers and duties of such board, having been considered by the committee in session, was reported from the Committee for Courts of Justice, with amendment.

The following Senate bills having been considered by the committee in session, were reported from the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns:

No. 106. Senate bill to provide a new charter for the city of Clifton Forge, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.

No. 207. Senate bill to permit the councils or other governing bodies of cities of the first class to appropriate money to aid in the support of dependent children of members of the police and fire departments of such cities who may have lost their lives through injuries received or disease incurred while in the performance of their duties as members of such departments.

No. 219. Senate bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to acquire rock quarries.

No. 220. Senate bill to make and declare the county courthouse building and the lot appurtenant thereto, located in Harrisonburg, a part of Central magisterial district, in Rockingham county, for certain purposes.

No. 235. Senate bill to amend and re-enact scetions 4, 9, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 90 of an act approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and the acts amendatory thereof.

No. 255. Senate bill to authorize the common council of Winchester to issue fifty thousand dollars of refunding improvement bonds in the sum of fifty thousand dollars and prescribing the terms and conditions of said issue.

No. 262. Senate bill authorizing cities containing, by the last or any subsequent United States census, a population of not less than fifty thousand nor more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, to appropriate to standard gauge steam railroad companies such sum or sums as may be necessary, not to exceed two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars in any one case, to induce such standard gauge steam railroad companies to extend their lines into the corporate limits of such cities and ratifying and confirming any such appropriation, not exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars, made by any such city heretofore for said purpose.

No. 272. Senate bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Lee county to borrow money and to issue bonds of said county or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $50.000, for the purpose of repairing damage done by flood to the public roads and bridges of said county and to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon and to create a sinking fund for the payment of such bonds at maturity.

No. 284. Senate bill to validate, ratify, approve and confirm certain bonds to be issued by the county of Elizabeth City authorizing the issue and providing for the redemption thereof, and for the ordering and holding of an election of the qualified voters of the said county and the election or

dered and held in pursuance thereof, for the purpose of raising funds for the permanent improvement of certain roads in Wythe magisterial district, county of Elizabeth City.

No. 306. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to provide, in cities containing 70,000 inhabitants or more, for the election of a special justice of the peace to be known as the civil justice; to prescribe his jurisdiction and duties and to fix his compensation, and to authorize the issue by other justices of the peace in said cities of warrants cognizable by said civil justice, approved March 5, 1908, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1910, and as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1912, by (1) increasing the salary limit of said civil justice, (2) providing for interrogatories under executions issued by said civil justice and (4) giving said civil justice certain powers in matters of contempt; (5) by enlarging the jurisdiction of said civil justice in interpleader proceedings and otherwise, approved March 10, 1914.

No. 261. Senate bill ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over certain lands acquired for public purposes within the State and authorizing the acquisition thereof, and any interest therein, and repealing all prior acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, having been considered by the committee in session, was reported from the Committee on Federal Relations and Resolutions.

No. 248. Senate bill to provide for the payment out of the State Treasury of the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the counties and cities of the State certain fees in felony and misdemeanor cases and to fix the maximum amount that the attorneys for the Commonwealth of the respective counties and cities of the State shall be paid in fees out of the State Treasury and to fix for them and to provide for the taxing and payment of certain fees in scire facias and other proceedings upon forfeited recognizances, and to amend and reenact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section. 3528 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, ap-. proved March 22, 1916, and to repeal all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, having been considered by the committee in session, was reported from the Committee on Appropriations.

No. 227. Senate bill providing when the defense of death by suicide can be made in any action, motion or suit on life. insurance policies, and to define the period after which such policies shall be incontestable, having been considered by the