sum of $50,000 in amount, No. 291; an act to authorize the school board of Tanner's Creek magisterial district, No. 6, of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to borrow money for the purpose of school improvements in said district, and to issue bonds therefor, not io exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars in amount, No. 292; an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the removal of remains interred in grave yards and sale of land vacated by such removals, approved March 4, 1890, No. 301; ar act to ratify and confirm judicial proceedings in partition suits where parcels of real estate, in which infants had undivided interests, have been conveyed to corporation organized for the purpose of acquiring such real estate in exchange for its capital stock, No. 307; an act to regulate the running at large of dogs in the county of Clarke, No. 309; an act to amend and re-enact section 7 of an at entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county, approved March 29, 1902, No. 310; an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia, approved March 20, 1916, No. 312; an act to prescribe the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Norfolk to secure the State revenue, and to require weekly settlements of such treasurer, No. 313; an act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities, approved March 15, 1906, No. 314; 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; an act 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. 317; an act 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 appropriations, not exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars, made by any such city heretofore for said purpose, No. 318; an act to abolish the poor house in Dinwiddie county, No. 319; an act 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 ordered and held in pursuance thereof, for the purpose of raising funds for the permanent improve

ment of certain roads in Wythe magisterial district, county of Elizabeth City, No. 320; an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Lee county to borrow money and issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $50,000.00, 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. 322; an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Henry county to appropriate from the general funds of said county a sufficient amount of money to maintain the convict road force in said county, and for the construction of other permanent improved roads in said county, and to borrow money at any time not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, for the purpose of maintaining said convict road force and for the construction of other permanent improved roads, as aforesaid, No. 324; an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to borrow money and issue bonds of said county, or any of the magisterial districts thereof, for a sum not exceeding $30,000, 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. 325; an act to authorize and empower boards of supervisors to remit certain classes of local taxes upon certain steam railways operating at a loss, No. 328; an act to prohibit the issuing of bonds for permanent road or bridge improvement, under an election held in 1916 for this purpose in Lunenburg county for Pleasant Grove magisterial district of said county, No. 331; an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prohibit the hunting or shooting of rabbits in Mathews and Middlesex counties, approved March 16, 1916, No. 340; an act limiting the number of quail, partridges, and wild turkeys that may be killed in one day by any one person in the county of Brunswick, No. 341; an act to prohibit the hunting, shooting or trapping of ringednecked pheasants in Brunswick county, until the first day of November, 1921, No. 342; an act to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to create a commission to consider the compensation of court clerks, examiners of records, treasurers, commissioners of the revenue, sheriffs, high constables, and city sergeants, and until action upon the report of said commissioner to fix the maximum amount of compensation of said officers, approved March 27, 1914, in reference to the county of Prince George, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1916, No. 347; an act to amend and reenact sections 21, 59, 65, 72, 73 and 121 of an act to provide a new charter for the city of Bristol, as amended, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 14, 1908, and to add a new and independent section 125-a thereto, No.

348; an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 17, 1916, entitled an act defining the time in which it may be lawful to hunt deer in Mecklenburg county, No. 362; 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. 363; an act to validate the recordation of certain maps and plats as recorded in the counties of Amherst, Campbell and Halifax, and authorize the use of plat books in the clerk's offices thereof, No. 364; and an act to provide for the locating and opening of new roads, for the altering and discontinuing of any of the existing roads, for the working, improving and keeping the same in repair; and to provide for the erection and maintenance of bridges, in the county of Wythe, and to provide a penalty for obstructing or injuring the roads and bridges in said county, and for repealing all former special road laws for the said county of Wythe, No. 375; in which they request the concurrence of the Senate.

H. B. No. 251. A bill to provide a cottage at Catawba Sanatorium for tubercular teachers; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Finance.

H. B. No. 266. A bill to amend and re-enact chapter 279 of an act of the General Assembly, approved March 16, 1910, entitled an act to require the State Treasurer to charge off the books of his office all checks drawn by him on State depositories, which have not been presented for payment within five years from the date they were issued, and to require him to certify the fact to the auditor of public accounts and to the State depositories on which these checks were drawn not pay same; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Finance.

H. B. No. 275. A bill to dispose of certain moneys in the hands of the treasurer; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Finance.

H. B. No. 118. A bill to amend and re-enact section 2115 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to fishing by non-residents; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Fish and Game.

II. B. No. 119. A bill to amend and re-enact sub-section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sub-sections 2, 6, 9, 10, and 13, of section 2086 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, approved March 22, 1916; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Fish and Game.

H. B. No. 120. A bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to protect certain fish in the bays, creeks, inlets and streams tributary to the Potomac river in the State of Virginia, approved March 15, 1904, as amended by an act approved March 16, 1910; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Fish and Game.

H. B. No. 147. A bill for the relief of William H. Bowman; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Finance.

H. B. No. 161. A bill to amend and re-enact section 448 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to commissioners of revenue; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Finance.

H. B. No. 121. A bill to amend and re-enct section 2 of an act entitled an act to create a board of fisheries of Virginia, and define its duties and fix the salary of its members as amended by acts approved February 21, 1900, February 15, 1901, and March 12, 1908, respectively, so as to change the position of secretary of the commission of fisheries to that of shellfish commissioner, to define the duties and powers of the commissioner, to fix salaries and provide a fund for carrying out the provisions of this act, approved March 23, 1916; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Fish and Game.

H. B. No. 179. A bill to provide for the appointment of staff officers in the National Guard; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

H. B. No. 290. A Bill to amend and re-enact section 1656-a of the Code of Virginia; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Public Institutions and Education.

H. B. No. 291. A bill to authorize the school board of Western Branch magisterial district, No. 1, 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 $50,000 in amount; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Public Institutions and Education.

H. B. No. 292. A bill to authorize the school board of Tanner's Creek magisterial district, No. 6, 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 seventy-five thousand dollars in amount; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on Public Institutions and Education.

H. B. No. 301. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act providing for the removal of remains interred in grave yards and sale of land vacated by such removals, approved March 4, 1890; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on General Laws.

H. B. No. 307. A bill to ratify and confirm judicial proceedings in partition suits where parcels of real estate, in which infants had undivided interests, have been conveyed to corporation organized for the purpose of acquiring such real estate in exchange for its capi

tal stock; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee for Courts of Justice.

H. B. No. 309. A bill to regulate the running at large of dogs in the county of Clarke; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

H. B. No. 310. A bill to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Norton, in Wise county, approved March 29, 1902; was taken up, read the first time. and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

H. B. No. 312. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Crewe, in Nottoway county, Virginia, approved March 20, 1916; was taken up, read the first time. and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

H. B. No. 313. A bill to prescribe the penalty of the bond of the treasurer of Norfolk to secure the State revenue, and to require weekly settlements of such treasurer; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

H. B. No. 314. A bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for the consolidation or annexation of cities, approved March 15, 1906; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

H. B. No. 316. A bill 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.; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organization.

H. B. No. 317. A 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; was taken up, read the first time and referred to the Committee on County, City and Town Organizaztion.

H. B. No. 318. 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) 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: was taken up,