of Virginia, or any public board or commission, is hereby authorized and empowered, in his or its discretion, to transfer to the Virginia State library, for preservation, any official books, records, documents, original papers, maps, newspaper files, printed books or portraits, not in current use in his or its office; and said State library shall provide for their permanent preservation; and when so surrendered, copies therefrom shall be made and certified by the State librarian, upon application and the payment of reasonable fees, which certification shall have the same force and effect as if made by the officer or board or commission originally in charge of them. Such fees as may be collected shall be deposited in the treasury of the State to the credit of the library fund.

(1918, p. 409. In force June 21, 1918.)

Chap. 232 of Acts 1918.

Penalties for the violation of act concerning motor vehicles; appeals.

14. Any person, failing to perform any duty imposed by any section of this act, or violating any provision or condition herein set forth, shall for each offense, be fined not less than two dollars and fifty cents, or imprisoned in jail not less than five nor more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the justice of the peace before whom the case may be tried. An appeal may be taken to the circuit court of the county, or corporation or hustings court of the city, in accordance with the general law governing appeals in misdemeanor

cases.

(1918, p. 410. In force June 21, 1918.)

This act was amendatory of chapter 326 of Acts 1910.

For a similar provision, see section 2145 Code. U. S. Mail truck driver punishable under this section, Hall v. Commonwealth, 129, Va. 738.

Chap. 233 of Acts 1918.-An Act to provide for public health nursing and medical inspection and health inspection of school children. Whereas, the number of physicians available for the care of the sick is decreasing in proportion to the population, and

Whereas, sickness and disease may be decreased much by preventive measures, and

Whereas, it is advisable that the children in the public schools should be inspected and examined, and

Whereas, many homes in every community should be visited by a public health nurse or physician,

Therefore, be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia:

1. That the boards of supervisors of every county be and are hereby authorized to make direct appropriation out of the public funds of the county from the levies raised in the county for county purposes, to provide for the inspection of school children and the

employment of a school nurse to visit the schools and the homes, in an effort to prevent the spread of disease and to provide for the treatment of many ailments which, if allowed to continue, will result disastrously to the pupils.

2. That all such money appropriated by the boards of supervisors shall be placed to the credit of the county school board to be spent in the employment of a nurse or physician; the said nurse or physician shall not be employed or contracted with by the said school board until the person or persons to be employed have been approved by the health commissioner of the Commonwealth.

4. That the teachers of the Commonwealth shall be prepared for public health work, every normal school of the State be and is hereby required to give a course in preventive medicine, medical inspection of school children, upon which course every person graduating from a normal school must have passed a satisfactory examination and every normal school certificate shall therefore have as a prerequisite a knowledge of preventive medicine and medical inspection.

The said course shall conform to the standard and requirement to be fixed by the State health commissioner and the superintendent of public instruction.

(1918, p. 411. In force June 21, 1918.)

See chapter 327 of Acts 1920, herein and note thereto.

Chap. 234 of Acts 1918.-An Act for the relief of all taxpayers in the State of Virginia whose lands during the year 1917 were taken or acquired by the United States, or shall be so taken or acquired in any year subsequent to the year 1917.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all taxpayers of this State whose lands, or any portion thereof, were, during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, or shall be in any year subsequent thereto, acquired or taken in any manner whatsoever by the United States, shall be relieved from the payment of taxes and levies on such lands as have been or shall be so taken or acquired, for that portion of the year in which said property was or shall be so taken or acquired from and after the date upon which the title was or shall be vested in the United States, and the county treasurers as to lands situated in counties, and the city treasurers and city collectors as to lands situated in cities, so taken or acquired, shall receive from and receipt to the original owner of the lands so taken by the United States, for his proportionate part of the taxes and levies for said year, and credit the payment on the tax tickets, and shall return at the time he makes his return of lands and lots improperly assessed as required by law, the proportional part of the taxes and levies exonerated from taxation for any such year, indicating on the margin of the list the date on which the property was acquired by the United States government. Which list when approved by proper authorities shall be considered as a credit to any such treasurer or collector in the settlement of the accounts for

said year. The clerk of the court of the county or city in which the lands lie shall furnish a certificate to the auditor of public accounts and to the county or city treasurer, showing the quantity of land taken or acquired by the United States government, name of the former owner, a description of the land and the district or ward in which the land is situated; also the date of the recordation of the deed by which such lands were taken or acquired by the United States government, as shown by the records in his office, which certificate shall be sufficient evidence to county and city treasurers and city collectors, to authorize them to receive and pro rate the taxes and levies as herein authorized.

Any such taxpayer whose lands have been so taken during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, who shall have paid his taxes and levies for the whole year, shall be entitled to recover such portion of said taxes as he would be relieved from paying under the terms of this act, on any lands that may have been taken or acquired during the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, by the United States, in the same manner as provided by law for the correction of erroneous assessments and refunding taxes erroneously charged; and any such taxpayer, who has not paid the taxes or levies on any such lands so taken or acquired for the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall also be relieved of interest and penalties therefor, provided he shall make payment for his proportion of the taxes and levies for the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as herein provided, on or before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen.

(1918, p. 412. In force March 15, 1918.)

Chap. 235 of Acts 1918.

Heat, light, power, water, and telephone companies.

(Repealed 1922, p. 886.)

This act was amendatory of chapter 340 of Acts 1914.

For a similar provision, see Code section 4067.

Chap. 236 of Acts 1918.-Sentencing certain prisoners to hard labor on the public roads.

(Repealed 1920, p. 503. In force June 18, 1920.)

See chapter 335 of Acts 1920 herein.

Chap. 237 of Acts 1918.

State obligations to be held for verification; exception; limit as to time. The commissioners of the sinking fund are hereby authorized and required to receive on deposit for verification, classification and exchange, such of the said obligations of the State as may be presented to said commissioners, the said verification and exchange of the new bonds of the obligations as deposited to be conducted in the same

manner as herein provided with respect to the obligations deposited with the same bondholders' committee, and the said commissioners of the sinking fund shall issue to and distribute amongst said depositing creditors, after they have fully complied with the terms of this act, in exchange for the obligations so deposited, bonds authorized by this act as follows, namely: To each of the several classes of said depositing creditors the same proportion as the same class received under the distribution made by the commission of the creditors represented by the bondholders' committee: Provided, that no obligations shall be received for such deposit after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and eighteen, nor shall any coupon bonds be received which do not have attached thereto all coupons maturing after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one; but for any such coupons as may be missing, coupons of like class and amount, or face value thereof in cash, may be received, and said cash, if paid, to be returned if proper coupons are tendered within six months thereafter, and each depositor shall, when he receives his distributive share of the said new issue of bonds, pay to the commissioners of the sinking fund three and one-half per centum in cash of the par value of the bonds received by him, and the said sinking fund commissioners shall cover the fund thus received into the treasury of the Commonwealth.

(1918, p. 415. In force March 15, 1918.)

Time for funding may be extended.

Commissioners of the sinking fund are authorized, if it shall seem to them for the best interest of the Commonwealth to make an extension of the time for the funding of the outstanding evidence of debt due by the Commonwealth not heretofore funded under said act of February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for a period not extending beyond December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen.

All bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall carry interest from the semi-annual period next preceding the date of funding. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. (1918, p. 416. In force March 15, 1918.)

This act was amendatory of sections 395 and 405 Code 1904, similar to sections 2591 and 2601 Code 1919, respectively.

Chap. 240 of Acts 1918.-An Act to provide for the admission of women to the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That beginning with the session opening in the fall of the year nineteen hundred and eighteen, the college of William and Mary in Virginia shall admit properly prepared women to its collegiate and normal courses, and upon graduation shall grant them degrees upon the same terms as those upon which like degrees are granted to men.

(1918, p. 424. In force June 21, 1918.)

See chapter 40, Code.

Chap. 241 of Acts 1918.-An Act relating to the filing of answers in suits for the sale of infant's interest in real estate.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever a suit has heretofore been instituted for the sale of any interest in real estate owned by an infant under fourteen years of age, and it appears that a guardian ad litem has been duly appointed to protect said infant's interest, and that such guardian has filed an answer for said infant, or has answered in his own proper person, no deed acquired by a bona fide purchaser in such proceedings shall be invalid because such guardian failed to file both of such answers; provided, it further appears that said infant's rights have been fully protected by said guardian in other particulars of such suit, and that said proceedings have been fairly and honestly conducted without suspicion of any attempt to defraud or injure said infant.

(1918, p. 424. In force June 21, 1918.) For a similar provision, see section 5338 Code.

Chap. 242 of Acts 1918.-Twenty-fifth circuit.

Rockingham.-Third Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December.

Page. Fourth Monday in January, March, May, July, September and November.

(1918, p. 424. In force September 16, 1918.)

This act was amendatory of section 3059y Code 1904, similar to section 5893 Code 1919.

Chap. 243 of Acts 1918.-An Act in relation to tax on incorporated school leagues.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no annual franchise tax shall be required of any school league incorporated prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixteen. (1918, p. 425. In force June 21, 1918.)

Chap. 244 of Acts 1918.-An Act prohibiting boating, fishing, hunting, gunning and skating in or over the waters of any lake, pond or reservoir used as, or in connection with, the public water supply of any city in this Commonwealth having by the last United States census a populating of more than nineteen thousand inhabitants, without the consent in writing of the city or water supply company owning such lake, pond or reservoir or entitled to use the waters of the same in connection with its water supply, and providing the penalties for the violation of the same.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be unlawful for any person to boat, fish, hunt, gun or skate, in, on or over the waters of any lake, pond or reservoir used as, or in connection with,