In Senate, February 27, 1918.

The Senate has passed House bills entitled an act to place mutual fire insurance companies under the supervision and control of the Bureau of Insurance, No. 43; an act to authorize the city of Newport News to from time to time borrow money, not exceeding $200,000, on short term notes, No. 136; an act to amend and re-enact sections 61, 79, 80, 97 and 100 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor as heretofore amended, No. 137; an act to amend and reenact sections 45 and 54 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, No. 139; an act to authorize the issuance of $350,000 of bonds by the city of Newport News for the construction of permanent municipal improvements, No. 140; an act to provide for the issuance of $150,000 of bonds by the city of Newport News for the repayment of funds borrowed and expended in the construction of the concrete roadway on certain streets and avenues, No. 141; an act to amend and re-enact section 852 of the Code of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven as amended by an act approved March 14, 1908, No. 144; and an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to provide for the protection of certain fur-bearing animals in the county of Loudoun, approved February 9, 1916, No. 168.

They have passed, with amendments, House bills entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 104 of an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896, as amended, No. 138; an act authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to lend out the money belonging to the county arising from the sale of the test farm and secure the payment of the same by taking a deed of trust on real estate belonging to the lender, No. 169; and an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 9 of an act providing for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the counties of the State, approved March 13, 1912, as amended March 17, 1915, p. 141, as amended March 17, 1916, p. 461, No. 111.

And they have passed Senate bills entitled an act to provide for the leasing of the lands owned by the Commonwealth and known as the State farm, in Goochland county, Virginia, and the Maiden Adventure farm, in Powhatan county, Virginia, in the event that it is bought by the State, to the Waverly Oil and Gas Company, for the purpose of drilling thereon

for and removing therefrom the oil and gas thereon, and prescribing the terms and conditions of such lease, No. 44; an act to cause all deposits or accounts in the several banks and banking corporations or associations in this Commonwealth whereof the depositor is unknown or the person or persons to whom such account or deposit belongs or belong is or are unknown and against which deposit or account there has been no check, draft or order for a period of twenty-one years by one entitled to check thereon, to escheat to the Commonwealth, and to direct the manner of reporting same and the final disposition thereof, No. 53; an act relating to motion picture films, reels or stereopticon views or slides, providing a system of examination, approval and regulation thereof and of the banners, posters and other like advertising matter used in connection therewith, creating the board of censors, and providing penalties for the violation of this act, No. 76; an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and to appropriate money for the construction of roads and projects comprised in "The State Highway System" and to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades from the first to the seventh inclusive, and to provide for the prevention and eradication of tuberculosis among the people of this State and to extend the work of the State Board of Health, No. 100; an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act relating to the situs for taxation of intangible property owned by corporations which do no business in this State, approved March 22, 1916, No. 156; an act to provide for public health nursing and medical inspection and health inspection of school children, No. 163; an act to permit the transfer of the Valley turnpike to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to fix the terms and conditions of such transfer and to provide for the maintenance of said turnpike, No. 164; an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to make it obligatory upon persons, firms or corporations employing men in foundries or moulding shops to provide for proper ventilation in such foundries or moulding shops, approved March 27, 1914, as heretofore amended, No. 176; an act for the relief of all taxpayers in the State of Virginia whose lands during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen were taken or acquired by the United States or shall be so taken or acquired in any year subsequent to the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, No. 181; an act to make uniform the law of transfer of shares of stock in corporations, No. 191; an act to admit women to the practice of law in this State, No. 202;

an act appropriating the sum of $6,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for rebuilding causeway and bridge at Jamestown Island, No. 224; an act to amend and re-enact section 14 of chapter 2 of an act entitled an act concerning the Bureau of Insurance, and insurance, guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, security, and fraternal benefit companies, associations, societies and orders, and imposing penalties for its violation, approved March 9, 1906, No. 228; an act to amend and re-enact sections 7, 9 and 48 of an act entitled an act to define the corporate limits and charter of the city of Williamsburg, approved March 17, 1884, as amended by an act approved March 5, 1900, and as amended March 20, 1916, No. 267; an act to appropriate $100,000 to constitute an emergency military and defense fund, No. 271; an act to amend and re-enact section four thousand and seventy-seven of the Code of Virginia, relative to certain allowances for jailers, No. 275; an act to amend and re-enact section 848 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended in relation to the compensation of supervisors, No. 283; an act to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and reenact an act entitled an act to provide for a change in the form of government of cities having a population of less than 100,000, and of towns, and to provide in what manner such cities and towns may adopt such form of government, approved March 20, 1916, No. 289; an act to make it a misdemeanor to or to attempt to entice, solicit, persuade or procure any servant, cropper, laborer or employee to leave his employer or his service for the purpose of going out of the Commonwealth to perform similar or other service, and to provide penalties therefor, No. 308; an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved November 28, 1903, entitled an act to provide for the contraction of the corporate limits of cities and towns, No. 309; an act to provide for the issuing of county bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement in the magisterial districts of the county of Scott, No. 310; an act to incorporate the town of Dungannon, in Scott county, Virginia, No. 311; an act to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester, Virginia, of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars of water improvement bonds and to authorize the issuance by said city of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars of said bonds, the proceeds whereof shall be used for improvement, enlargement and extension by the said city of its existing system of water works if a majority of those vot

ing vote in favor of such issuance, No. 314; an act to authorize the submission to the legal voters of the city of Winchester, Virginia, of the question whether or not they will favor the issuance by said city of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars of sanitary sewage extension bonds, and authorize the issuance by said city of not more than seventy-five thousand dollars of said bonds, the proceeds whereof shall be used for the extension by said city of its existing sanitary system of sewers and sewage disposal plant if a majority of those voting vote in favor of such issuance, No. 315; an act to ratify and confirm certain acts of Henry C. Stuart, former Governor of Virginia, in relation to the securing of options, in the name of the State of Virginia, on certain lands to be used for military purposes, situated in Prince George county, Virginia, and to authorize the proper officers of the State of Virginia to assign such options to the United States Camp, Inc., No. 316; an act to amend and re-enact section 55 of chapter V of an act concerning corporations, which became a law May 21, 1903, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 12, 1908, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 23, 1916, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, No. 318; an act to authorize the school board of Washington magisterial district, No. 5, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district and to issue bonds therefor, not to exceed the sum of $14,000 in amount, No. 325; an act authorizing the boards of supervisors of the respective counties of the Commonwealth to pay rewards out of county levies for the capture of illicit stills and delivery of the same to the sheriff of the county, and for the conviction of the person or persons guilty of operating the same in the manufacture of ardent spirits, No. 328; an act to provide that members and employees and agents of the State Highway Commission may use toll roads and toll bridges without payment of toll, No. 331; an act to prohibit advertising concerning venereal diseases, No. 344; an act to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the killing of deer in the county of Buckingham for the term of five years, approved March 4, 1916, No. 348; an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Fluvanna county from time to time as necessary, upon the petition of a majority of the qualified voters of said county, to borrow money and issue bonds, for a sum not exceeding $50,000, for the purpose of uniting in the building in said county of improved and permanent highways, either by the use of the State money aid fund or by the use

of convicts, and to further authorize and empower the said board of supervisors, upon the petition of a majority of the qualified voters of any magisterial district, to borrow money and issue bonds, for a sum not exceeding $25,000, for the purpose of uniting in the building in such district of improved and permanent highways either by the use of the State money aid fund or by the use of convicts, No. 353; an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Warren county to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars and issue bonds therefor for the permanent improvement and construction of certain roads in Front Royal and South River magisterial districts of said county, No. 355; an act to amend section 37 of an act approved January eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Culpeper, Virginia, as further amended by an act approved March third, nineteen hundred and six, and as further amended by an act approved March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and as further amended by an act approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, No. 357; an act to authorize Albemarle and Buckingham counties to erect, build and construct a bridge across James river at Hatton, Virginia, either at the point where a ferry is now being operated or within one mile thereof, and to maintain and operate the same as a free bridge, and to issue bonds for that purpose, No. 358; an act to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow a sum, not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing and improving roads and bridges in said county and to issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust or other lien on the interest of said county in the Norfolk county ferries, to provide for the payment of said bonds, to create and authorize a commission to dispense the funds so obtained, and authorize the circuit court of said county, or the judge thereof in vacation, to appoint the members of said commission, approved February 1, 1915, No. 359; an act to authorize the town council of the town of Altavista to sell and convey certain lands belonging to said town, No. 363; and an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas, in the county of Tazewell, and to repeal all other acts or parts of acts in conflict there-. with. No. 287; in which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.

Nos. 138, 169 and 111. House bill were, on motions severally made, placed on the calendar.