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the rate of fifty dollars for every such company for which he acts, except in towns or cities containing a population of three thousand or upwards, in which cities or towns the license shall be one hundred dollars per annum.

17. On every license to a person or company, carrying on any express business for compensation, or who shall act as principal agent of such person or company, who may commence business after the first day of February in any year, at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum. Upon payment of the tax hereby imposed, the said express company shall have the privilege of transacting business by its agents anywhere within the State.

18. Sections X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXVIII, XXXIX, and XL, of chapter forty of the Code of Virginia, second edition, are hereby repealed.

CHAP. 124.-An ACT to provide for the relief of the families of soldiers.

Passed December 7, 1863.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

The boards of supervisors of each county are hereby authorized, from time to time during the war, at any stated or special meeting, to levy so many cents on every hundred dollars value of the taxable property of their county, as they shall deem necessary, to provide adequate funds for the relief of the families of living and deceased soldiers of their county. But if any special meeting be called for such purpose, at least seven day's notice of the object of such meeting must be given to the supervisors constituting the board.

CHAP. 125.-An ACT in relation to the Board of Directors for the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane.

Passed December 7, 1863.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

1. The governor shall, as soon as practicable, appoint a board of directors for the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane, consisting of seven persons, of whom not more than two shall be selected from the county of Lewis, and not more than one of the others shall be selected from any one county. Their term of office shall commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, on which day they shall hold their first meeting in the town of Weston. When assembled, they shall divide themselves into two classes, the first to consist of three members who shall hold their office for one year, and the second class to consist of four members who shall continue in office for two years. After the first appointment each class shall continue in office for two years, and when vacancies occur by the provisions of this act, or otherwise, the governor shall fill them by appointment.

Said board is hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the "West Virginia Hospital for the Insane," and by that name may sue and be sued, and shall have and use a common seal, and are authorized to take charge of the hospital and of any real or personal estate given or to be given to it, or to themselves for its use; and shall be invested with all the rights, powers and privileges conferred, and subject to the rules, regulations and restrictions imposed by the eightyfifth chapter of the Code of Virginia, second edition, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with this act; provided, that any two or more of such directors may examine persons, brought to the hospital as lunatic, and order those found to be such to be received.

2. The board shall at their first meeting appoint a treasurer, who shall give bond in such penalty as shall be approved by the board. He shall receive all money belonging to the hospital and disburse it under orders of the board, and settle his accounts as treasurer, semiannually. His draft on the treasury for an appropriation shall be under the order of the board, a copy of which shall accompany the draft; no such draft shall be allowed by the auditor until all money drawn for the year preceding shall be accounted for.

3. The board now in office shall, on or before the first day of January next, and the board of directors shall annually thereafter, on or before the first day of January, report to the governor, for the information of the legislature, the condition of the hospital, with a full account of their contracts, receipts, disbursements and proceedings.

4. The sixteenth section of the eighty-fifth chapter of the Code of Virginia, second edition, is hereby repealed; but the board of directors now in office shall remain in office and continue to discharge the duties thereof until the first day of January next.

CHAP. 126.-An ACT making additional Appropriations.

Passed December 7, 1863.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia;

There is hereby appropriated for the purposes herein specified, the following sums, viz:

For expenses of the legislature, for the session commencing the twentieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, including pay of officers, printing, stationery, rent of Linsley Institute, from the twentieth of June to the eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, furniture, flag, &c., thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of officers of civil government, one thousand dollars. For salaries and mileage of judges of supreme court of appeals, and judges of circuit courts, seven thousand dollars.

For the salary of the clerk of the supreme court of appeals, five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of courts, one thousand dollars.

For criminal charges, including witnesses, jurors, and jailors' fees, two thousand dollars.

For expenses of convicts in jail prior to the twentieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one thousand dollars.

For expenses of convicts in jail since the twentieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses of lunatics in asylums in other states, in jails and other places, two thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of auditor's office, including stationery, printing, books, postage and fuel, two thousand dollars.

For public printer, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For salary of quarter-master general, five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of quarter-master general's office, one thousand dollars.

For salary of clerk in auditor's office, three hundred dollars.

For salary of clerk in adjutant general's office, three hundred dollars.

For salary of vaccine agent, one hundred dollars.

For expenses of procuring seals and presses for state, courts, and recorders, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For expenses of coroner's inquests, two hundred dollars.

To pay militia claims provided for by act passed nineteenth November, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An Act providing for the payment of certain militia claims allowed by regimental courts," six thousand dollars.

To John W. Boner, commissioner for taking soldiers' vote on amended constitution, twenty-two dollars and sixty cents.

To John S. McDonald, for same kind of services, forty dollars. To Henry Startzman, for same kind of services, forty dollars. To M. B. Reed, for same kind of services, thirty-four dollars. To John Bowyer, for same kind of services, thirty-two dollars. To J. P. B. R. Smith, for same kind of services, thirty-two dollars. To S. G. W. Morrison, for same kind of services, twenty-eight dollars.

To John Goudy, for same kind of services, thirty dollars.

To Sylvanus W. Hall, for same kind of services, sixty dollars. To D. S. Montague, for same kind of services, fifty-two dollars. To Joseph Odell, for printing governor's proclamation for executive committee, twelve dollars.

To Campbell & McDermot, for printing for executive committee, in May and June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, two hundred and fifteen dollars.

For expenses of holding election on the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, on the amended constitution in Wirt county, twelve dollars.

For expenses of holding election on the twenty-sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, on amended constitution in Jackson county, seventy-two dollars.

To. C. M. Rice, John H. Wetzel, and David Woodruff, of Jackson county, for holding an election for senator, by order of Governor Peirpoint, in June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, twenty five dollars.

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To Joseph Jenkins, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by joint committee on claims, ninety-two cents.

To Alfred T. Holt, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-seven cents.

To Matthias F. Stuck, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, twelve dollars and eighty cents.

To William T. Frailey, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, twenty-one dollars and sixty-five cents.

To William L. Fansler, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, twelve dollars and seventy-nine cents. To Samuel N. Pearce, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, five dollars.

To James Miller, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, twelve dollars and thirty cents.

To Smith Crane, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, twenty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents.

To Lydia Hethrington, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, twenty-seven dollars and thirty cents.

To James H. Manown, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, thirty dollars.

To Jacob Weaver, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same commitee, forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.

To Joseph Brown, of Preston county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, twenty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents.

To William Ewing, of Ohio county, on claim audited and allowed by same committee, forty dollars and twenty-five cents.

To A. Brooks Fleming, of Marion county, for claim audited and allowed by same committee, seven dollars.

To J. M. McWhorter, of Roane county, on claim audited and allowed by same committee, thirty-two dollars and seventy-four cents.

For current expenses for maintaining lunatics in the hospital at Weston, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the board of public works, fifty dollars. For expenses of holding election on amended constitution, on March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in Boone county, twenty dollars.

To janitor to executive offices, one hundred dollars.

To pay Alfred A. Hagar for time and money spent in traveling and organizing Captain Joseph H. Barker's company of state troops at Brownstown, in June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, seventeen dollars.

To pay D. D. T. Farnsworth, a member of the joint special committee, to visit the lunatic asylum at Weston, twenty-eight dollars.

Το pay L. E. Davidson, a member of said committee for same service, twenty-eight dollars.

To pay Lewis Ballard, a member of said committee, for same service, twenty-eight dollars.

To pay William P. Hubbard, clerk of the senate committee on military affairs, twenty-four dollars.

CHAP. 127.-An ACT confirming the election of George S. M. King.

Passed December 7, 1863.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

The election of George S. M. King, at the election held in Jackson county on the twenty-second day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, to the office of sheriff of said county, is hereby legalized; and he shall have sixty days from the passage of this act within which to take the oaths and give the bond required by law.

CHAP. 128.-An ACT to permit the handwriting of subscribing witnesses to be proved in certain cases.

Passed December 7, 1863.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

When a subscribing witness to a will or other instrument of writing is within the so-called Confederate States, or any territory under control of the rebel army, his handwriting may be proved as if he were dead, and with the same effect.

CHAP. 129.-An ACT authorizing the publication of an extra number of the laws.

Passed December 7, 1863.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

The clerk of the house of delegates is hereby authorized to contract with the public printer for printing, in addition to the number heretofore ordered, three thousand five hundred copies, in pamphlet form, of the laws passed at the present session of the legislrture, at a cost not exceeding seventeen cents per copy, unless the number of pages exceed one hundred and sixty, in which case he may be allowed one cent on every ten pages over that number, to be delivered by such clerk, one-third to the members of the senate and two-thirds to the members of the house of delegates, in numbers proportioned to the population represented by them, for distribution among the voters of their several districts and counties.

CHAP. 130.—An ACT to require Justices to discharge certain duties heretofore performed by Coroners.

Passed December 7, 1863.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

1. Every justice upon being notified that the dead body of a person, whose death is supposed to have been caused by violence or other unlawful act, and not by casualty, is within his township; shall forthwith issue his warrant directed to a constable thereof, who shall proceed to execute and make return of the same, commanding such constable to