29, 31, 32 and 42 of an act entitled an act to create a State department of game and inland fisheries and providing for the issuing of liceness to provide revenue for the support of such department and imposing penalties for its violation, which became a law on the 11th day of March, 1916, and to provide for the payment of bounties on hawk heads; and to repeal all laws giving to the boards of supervisors of the various counties the power to regulate and control matters relating to game and fish, and to change the name of the Commission of Fisheries.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments:

S. B. No. 215. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the killing or sora in the marshes of the Mattaponi river at night with lights, approved March 24, 1914.

MR. WALKER, from the Committee for Courts of Justice, reported with amendments:

H. B. No. 163. A bill to revise, arrange and consolidate into a code the general statutes of the Commonwealth.

And he, from the same committee, reported with amendments:.

S. B. No. 203. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act concerning coal mines and safety of employees, creating a department and inspector of mines under the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics, approved March 13, 1912, and as in part amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 22, 1916.

MR. BOWERS, from the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation, reported that the object of the within bills cannot be reached by general law or court proceedings:

S. B. No. 190. A bill to authorize the school board of the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $30,000 to meet notes for money borrowed by trustees for the purpose of erecting the graded school building in said town, and to complete the said building; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

S. B. No. 204. A bill to authorize and empower the council of the town of Chilhowie, in the county of Smyth, to borrow money and issue bonds for equipment of the fire department, and for the construction and improvement of water and sawerage systems of the said town; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

S. B. No. 207. A 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; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

S. B. No. 219. A bill to authorize the board of supervisors of Rockingham county to acquire rock quarries; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organi

zation.

S. B. No. 220. A 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; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

S. B. No. 221. A bill to enact and re-enact sections 2, 5, 6, 19 and 21 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the making, changing and working of roads in the county of Rockingham, approved March 2, 1888, as amended by an act of the General Assembly approved March 5, 1890, as further amended by an act of the General Assembly approved February 25, 1892, as further amended by an act of the General Assembly approved March 2, 1894, and as further amended by an act of the General Assembly approved February 26, 1896, approved March 15, 1904, as further amended by an act approved March 10, 1910, approved March 20, 1916: which was taken up and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

MESSRS. RISON and DAVIS, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 258. A hill to authorize and empower boards of supervisors to remit certain clauses of local taxes upon certain steam railways operating at a loss; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR. BARHAM. by leave, presented

S B. No. 259. A bill to repeal section 5, chapter 67, of an act of Assembly of 1916, approved February 26, 1916, entitled an act to appropriate the sum of $25.000.00 for the proper administration of the affairs of that part of Bland magisterial district, Prince George county, Virginia, known as Hopewell and its suburbs, to prescribe the method whereby the said appropriations shall be expended, and to provide for the payment thereof to the State treasury; and to relieve the city of Hopewell of the payment of the said sum of $25,000.00 into the State treasury; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR. BOWERS (by request), by leave, presented

S. B. No. 260. A bill to promote the breeding of pure livestock in the county of Madison; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing.

MR. RISON, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 261. A 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 or parts of acts in conflict with this act; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

MR. MATHEWS, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 262. A 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 ($200,000.00) 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 ($200,000.00) dollars, made by any such city heretofore for said purpose; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. MATHEWS, by leave, presented

S. B No. 263. A bill to restrict the trading in second-hand grate baskets electric light and gas fixtures, bell and bell fixtures, lead or brass water pipes, plumbing fixtures, household hardware and so forth; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

MR MATHEWS (by request), by leave, presented

S. B. No. 264. A bill to impose a special license tax on persons trading in second-hand grate baskets, gas, water and electric fixtures and so forth; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Finance.

MR MATHEWS (by request), by leave, presented

S. B. No. 265. A bill to define the relation of landlord and tenant for certain cases where there is no written agreement between the parties upon the subject, and in cases of hold-over tenancies, etc.; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice

MR. JEFFREYS, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 266. A bill for the suppression of contagious diseases among bees in Virginia by creating the office of Inspector of Apiaries, to define the duties thereof, and to appropriate money therefor; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing.

MR. GUNN, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 267. A bill 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; which was taken up and referred to the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation.

MR. EARLY, by leave, presented

S. B. No. 268. A bill to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to transfer fees; which was taken up and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

S. B. No. 152. A bill authorizing the councils of the cities of this Commonwealth having, by the last United States census, a popu lation 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 thereto 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; was taken up and, on motion. of MR. MATHEWS, was indefinitely postponed.

S. B. No. 110. A 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; was taken up, read the third time and passed with its title by the following vote-ayes, 21; noes, 0.

Senators who voted are:

YEAS-Messrs. Addison, Allen, Conrad, Corbitt, Davis, Downing, Early, Gravatt, Gunn, Jeffreys, Keith, Lacy, Mathews, Rinehart, Rison, Royall, Thornton, Trinkle, Walker, Wendenburg, West-21.

MR. CONRAD moved to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed, which was rejected.

H. B. No. 4. A bill to amend and re-enact section 89 of an act entitled an act to provide for the settlement, registration, transfer, and assurance of titles to land, and to establish courts of land registration with jurisdiction for said purposes, and to make uniform the laws of the States enacting the same, approved February 24, 1916: was taken up and read the second time. The committee amendments were agreed to.

H. B. No. 64. A 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; was taken up and read the second time. The committee amendment was agreed

to.

The following House bills were taken up and read the second time:

H. B. No. 142. A bill to amend section 2844 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to public holidays.

H. B. No. 88. A bill to amend and re-enact section 32-a of the charter of the city of Portsmouth, approved March 13, 1912, as heretofore amended, in reference to the issue of bonds.

H. B. No. 93. A bill to authorize the mavor and council of the city of Williamsburg, in the county of James City, State of Virginia, to issue bonds and borrow money for the purpose of building, repairing, and maintaining streets, sidewalks and bridges, and extending water and sewer mains, provided that the question of such bond issue, for the purposes named, be first submitted to the quali fied voters of said city, and to authorize such council to call a special election for the submission of the same to the voters thereof.

H. B. No. 94. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, approved March 10, 1908, as amended by an act approved March 12. 1912, by adding a new chapter thereto, to be known as chapter 10, relating to the initiative, referendum or recall.

H. B. No. 45. A bill to amend and re-enact sub-section 13 of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.

H. B. No. 48. A bill to prohibit the erection and continuation of devices and signs in the form of a railway crossing sign boards on or near any of the public roads of this State.

H. B. No. 57. A bill to provide for the acceptance of the conditions of the Federal act commonly called the Smith-Hughes bill (Public, No. 347, 64th Congress) and authorizing the State Board of Education to act as a State Board of Vocational Education for the Commonwealth, and authorizing the Treasurer of the State of Vir ginia to act as custodian of such funds as may be received from the Federal government, and to pay the same out on warrant drawn by the State Board of Education, and authorizing the State Board of Education to establish a department of vocational education, and appropriating money therefor.

H. B. No. 100. A bill to appropriate the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars to the State farm to meet the deficit in maintenance for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1918.

H. B. No. 112. A 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 super-, visors 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. The committee amendment was agreed to.