perate habits within the meaning of this act; prescribing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities; to provide for the enforcement of this act, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved March 10, 1916.

H. B. No. 68. A bill authorizing and empowering the board of supervisors of any two or more counties in this State, or the board of supervisors of any one or more of the counties in this State, and the council or councils of any one or more of the several cities in this State, to establish a home for the care and maintenance of the poor; to authorize the sale and conveyance of certain real and personal property belonging to such cities and counties as may adopt the provisions of this act; to authorize the authorities of such counties and cities to purchase farms of suitable size, fertility and location; to authorize such authorities to erect suitable buildings to be called district homes, to which all of the counties and cities composing such district must send its poor, and care for same; providing for the appointment of boards of control, superintendents, physicians and necessary employees; and to abolish county and city poor houses in the several counties and cities which adopt the provisions of this act.

I. 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.

H. B. No. 363. A bill 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.

H. Jt. Res. Proposing amendment to section 148 of Article XI of the Constitution of Virginia.

H. Jt. Res. Proposing an amendment to section 130 of the Constitution of Virginia.

H. Jt. Res. Proposing an amendment to section 136 of Article IX of the Constitution of Virginia, and providing for publishing said amendment and certifying the same to the next session of the General Assembly.

H. B. No. 113. A bill to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act to license and regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances, whose motive power is other than animal power, along and over public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide

uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations and for the licensing of chauffeurs, and to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the running of automobiles, locomobiles and other vehicles and conveyances whose motive power is other than animals, along and over the public highways of this State; to provide for the registration of the same; to provide uniform rules regulating the use and speed thereof, and to prescribe for the violation of said rules, approved March 17, 1910, as heretofore amended.

H. B. No. 96. A bill to amend and re-enact section 2197 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the disposition of dead animals and fowls, as heretofore amended.

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.

H. B. No. 130. A bill to amend and re-enact an act, approved February 17, 1910, entitled an act to enable incorporated towns and cities to contribute to the building or improvement of public roads and bridges leading to such towns or cities, as amended by an act, approved February 17, 1916; so as to enable incorporated towns and cities to construct bridges across streams beyond or within their corporate limits, to borrow money and issue their municipal bonds therefor, for the purchase or construction of such bridges, and to validate municipal bonds heretofore issued for such purposes.

H. B. No. 372. A bill 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 the said turnpike.

H. B. No. 85. A bill to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to regulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establishments where females and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operators, approved March 4, 1890, as heretofore amended.

H. B. No. 146. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in and about railroad shops, coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, the payment of wages at regular intervals, and in lawful money of the United States, approved May 23rd, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 11th, 1912.

II. B. No. 148. A bill in relation to the commission to establish the boundary line between the States of Virginia and West Virginia. H. B. No. 153. A bill to provide that judgment or decree, as the case may be, shall be given for the defendant in any motion or proceeding to forfeit a bail bond or recognizance, or in any proceeding

to enforce the same or a judgment thereon, where it shall appear that the person for whose alleged default such motion is made or proceedings are founded or such bond or recognizance was forfeited, was prevented from complying with the condition of such bond or recognizance by reason of his having enlisted or been drafted in the army or navy of the United States.

H. B. No. 158. A bill to extend the time for collecting taxes accounted for by city, county and town treasurers, and not returned delinquent.

H. B. No. 164. A bill to amend and re-enact section 1402 of the Code of Virginia, approved March 28, 1902, in relation to suits by and against trustees.

H. B. No. 174.

members of fraternal

A bill to provide whole family protection for benefit societies.

H. B. No. 212. A bill to amend and re-enact section 3160 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended.

H. B. No. 251. A bill to provide a cottage at Catawba Sanatorium for tubercular teachers.

H. B. No. 260. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act relating to the situs for taxation of intangible property owned by corporations which do business in this State, approved March 22, 1916.

H. B. No. 275. A bill to dispose of certain moneys in the hands of the treasurer.

H. B. No. 277. A bill to appropriate certain sums of money from the Virginia State treasury in aid of duly organized Confederate memorial associations of this State, having in charge and that expend such money upon cemeteries containing the graves of Confederate soldiers or sailors.

H. B. No. 278. A bill to appropriate $810.25 to compensate A. Wingfield Baker for subsistence and supplies furnished by him to Company A, Engineers, National Guard of Virginia, under command of Captain W. F. R. Griffith, between the times of its organization and moblization, July 5, 1916, and its muster into the Federal service, July 25, 1916.

H. B. No. 219. A bill to amend and re-enact an act to regulate the time and manner in which common carriers doing business in this State shall adjust and pay just freight charges and claims for loss or damage to freight, and claims for storage, demurrage, and car service, approved March 24, 1914.

H. B. No. 114. A bill to amend and re-enact sections 18, 19 and 20 of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and the 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, and acts amendatory thereof, and to segregate to localities the tax upon shares of stock of banks, banking associations, trust and security companies; was taken up, read the second time, committee amendments agreed to.

MR. GOLLRICK offered an amendment, which was agreed to. The hour of six P. M. o'clock having arrived, the chair was vacated until eight P. M.

O. V. HANGer,

B. F. BUCHANAN,
President of the Senate.

Clerk of the Senate.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1918. EVENING SESSION.

Lieutenant-Governor B. F. BUCHANAN presiding.

Mr. RISON, from the Committee on Public Institutions and Education, reported without amendments:

H. B. No. 155. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide in cities containing forty thousand inhabitants or more for the appointment of matron for the jails, and to fix their compensation and provide how the same shall be paid, approved March 12, 1908.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 156. A bill authorizing experts in making mental tests to act as members of commissions in proceedings for commitment of feeble-minded persons to the State colonies and also to testify before such commissions.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 229. A bill to amend and re-enact sections 1453, 1460, 1487 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and to repeal sections 1450, 1451, 1452, 1455, 1456, 1457 and 1458 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the election of school trustees.

He, from the same committee, reported with amendments: H. B. No. 358. A bill to amend and re-enact section 1671 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended in relation commissions of lunacy and their fees (affecting section 1021 of the report of the revisors of the Code).

And, he, from the same committee, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 449. A bill to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to establish a public free school on the grounds

of the prison association of Virginia at Laurel, Henrico county, and to make an appropriation for erection and equipment of the school house, and to provide for the conduct and maintenance of the same, approved March 16, 1918.

MR. GRAVATT, from the Committee on Fish and Game, reported without amendments:

H. B. No. 341. A bill 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.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments: H. B. No. 342. A bill to prohibit the hunting, shooting or trapping of ring-necked pheasants in Brunswick county, until the first day of November, 1921.

MR. WALKER, from the Committee for Courts of Justice, reported without amendments:

H. B. No. 145. A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to allow executors and other fiduciaries to invest in Virginia three per centum bonds issued by virtue of an act approved February 14, 1882, as amended by an act approved February 9, 1898, as amended by an act approved March 22, 1916.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments:

H. B. No. 217. A bill to provide for the commitment by any court having jurisdiction of such persons convicted therein of a misdemeanor or the violation of a city ordinance to any county or city farm; to provide for the commitment by the several courts and police justices of this State of juveniles that might be committed under the terms of an act approved March 27th, to any county or city farm; and to provide for the necessary expense of removing and delivering any person to said farm; and to provide the expense for the maintenance and support during the period of his or her confinement upon such farm.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments:

H. B. No. 221. A bill to allow personal representatives and guardians of estates of $100.00 or less, in the discretion of the court, to qualify by giving bond without surety, and to provide that upon the qualification of a personal representative of an estate of a decedent, of $100.00 or less in value, no tax or court cost shall be charged upon such qualification.

He, from the same committee, reported without amendments and with the recommendation that it be referred to the Committee on Fish and Game:

H. B. No. 239. A bill to amend and re-enact section 2079 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in regard to unlawful