Montgomery, Craig, Pulaski and Russell. (Amended; title amended.)

No. 405. House bill to authorize the council of the city of Charlottesville to give financial assistance to the University of Virginia upon the admission of women to its undergraduate courses at all its sessions and, if advisable, to hold an election on the question of the issuance of bonds for that purpose.

No. 406. House bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Botetourt county to enlarge or build an addition to the vault of the courthouse of said county and make other improvements to said courthouse and additions thereto and arrange plants to furnish heat, light and water for the same and to provide for issuing county warrants on levies for future years to pay the expenses thereof.

No. 407. House bill to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Albemarle to give financial assistance to the University of Virginia upon the admission of women to its under-graduate courses at all its sessions and, if advisable, to hold an election on the question of the issuance of bonds for that purpose.

No. 411. House bill 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. 412. House bill to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to retire certain bonds issued for the improvement of roads in Stevensburg district in said county.

No. 413. House bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors of Chesterfield county to create a general road fund and to provide for the permanent improvement of roads, approved April 2, 1902, and to create an advisory road board and to provide for the appointment of a county superintendent of roads, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved May 14, 1903, and to authorize the said board of supervisors to create a general maintenance road fund.

No. 414. House bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to provide annual allowance for the sheriff of said county.

No. 418. House bill to authorize the appointment of one additional commissioner in chancery for the circuit court of the county of Pittsylvania.

No. 419. House bill to amend and re-enact section 2108 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by acts approved respectively March 16, 1910, and March 13, 1912, in relation to unlawful fishing.

No. 233. House bill to repeal an act entitled an act to prohibit the use of gill nets or seines or the taking of fish therewith in the waters of Dan river, any lake or pond formed thereby, or any backwater therefrom, within Pittsylvania county and the corporate limits of the city of Danville, approved March 13, 1912.

The following House bills were, on motions severally made, dismissed:

No. 400. House bill to authorize the town council of the town of Altavista to sell and convey certain lands belonging to said town.

No. 276. House bill appropriating the sum of thirty-nine thousand ($39,000) dollars for the purchase of a lot of land on the corner of Governor and Franklin streets in the city of Richmond, Virginia.

No. 333. House bill to provide that members and employees and agents of the State Highway Commission may use toll roads and toll bridges without payment of toll.

All other business having been suspended, THE SPEAKER, in the presence of the House, signed the following bills, which had been passed by both Houses and duly enrolled, the titles of said bills having been publicly read:

No. 5. House bill to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.

No. 149. House bill to appropriate the sum of $170,687 to the State hospital 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. 135. House bill 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. 189. House bill 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 Mecklenburg county.

No. 184. House bill 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 thirtyyear 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. 191. House bill 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, 1903.

No. 92. House bill to prohibit the sale of water by one city to the inhabitants, 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. 22. House bill 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. 97. House bill to amend and re-enact an act approved March 21, 1916, relating to Confederate pensions.

No. 112.

House bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled

an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads of Amherst county, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 2, 1898, and as further amended by an act approved March 15, 1904, which latter act was further amended by an act approved March 16, 1910, which said amendment and the amendment herein contained being for the purpose of authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to work and improve the public roads of said county, expend any surplus money on the roads and bridges of said county and authorize the erection of toll gates on certain roads in said county for the purpose of raising revenue to maintain and build, macadamize and otherwise permanently improve roads in said county, approved February 20, 1912, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1916.

No. 64. House bill providing that any county or city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent widowed mothers for the partial support of their children in their own homes.

No. 113. Senate bill to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled an act providing for the appointment of a State Board of Health and of local boards of health, defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof and of their members, officers and agents in connection with the preservation of public health, and prescribing penalties against witnesses failing to obey subpoenas issued by said State Board of Health or any authorized member thereof for refusing to testify or otherwise acting in contempt of said State Board or its duly authorized members, approved March 7, 1900 (section 1713-d, Code of 1904); to repeal sections 1714, 1715, 1716, 1717 and 1718 of the Code of Virginia, 1887, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith; to provide for the appointment of a health commissioner and assistants, to define their duties, to provide for their compensation and to appropriate money to carry the provisions of this act into effect, approved March 14, 1908.

No. 110. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in Rockingham county, approved January 30, 1894, as amended by an act approved March 4, 1916.

House joint resolution proposing amendment to section 184 of the Constitution of Virginia.

No. 366. House bill to raise revenue for the support of

the government and to appropriate money to provide for an additional fund for the maintenance of public free schools of primary and grammar grades from the first to the seventh, both inclusive, came up; pending the consideration of which, on motion of MR. STUBBS of Middlesex, the House adjourned.

HARRY R. HOUSTON,

Speaker of the House of Delegates.

JNO. W. WILLIAMS, Clerk of the House of Delegates.

FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918.

Prayer by Rev. H. D. C. Maclachlan, pastor of SeventhStreet Christian church, Richmond.

On motion of MR. WINSTON, 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 28, 1918.

The Senate has passed House bill entitled an act to authorize the town council of the town of Bedford, Virginia, to convey a part of the street in said town, known as Railroad avenue, to the Bedford Can Company, Inc., No. 316.

They have passed, with amendments, House bills entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 492 of chapter 24 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended, No. 50; an act to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools and to pay the interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, as heretofore amended, No. 51; an act to provide for a commission to study educational conditions in Virginia and elsewhere and to report to the next General Assembly its findings, together with recommendations for a revision of the school laws and amendments to Article IX of the Constitution and authorizing the