AN ACT to amend and re-enact section nineteen of chapter seventeen, serial section five hundred and sixty-four, code of one thousand nine hundred and six, relating to the state fiscal year and providing for making reports, and repealing all sections inconsistent herewith.

(Passed February 6, 1913. In effect from passage. Approved by the Governor February 7, 1913.)

SEC.

19. Fiscal year to begin July 1, end June 30; officers or boards

shall compile report covering what time.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section nineteen of chapter seventeen, serial section five hundred and sixty-four, code of one thousand nine hundred and six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 19. The fiscal year for the state shall commence on the first day of July and end on the thirtieth day of June, and all reports, settlements, accounts and statements which are now, or that hereafter may be required by law, shall be kept and made to conform thereto. As soon as practicable after June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, each of the officers or boards now or hereafter required by law to compile a biennial report shall compile a report covering the twenty-one preceding months, and every two years thereafter the biennial reports shall be made for the two preceding years. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

(Senate Bill No. 231.)

CHAPTER 2.

AN ACT making appropriations of public money for salaries of the officers of the goverment, in pursuance of the forty-second section of the sixth article of the constitution.

(Passed February 21, 1913. In effect from passage. approval of the Governor.)

Became a law without the

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

Sec. 1. That there shall be and are hereby appropriated out of the treasury for the nine months ending on June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, respectively, the following sums of money to pay the salaries of the officers of the government:

Executive Department.

Nine months
Ending June
30, 1913.

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1914.

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1915.

To pay the salary of the governor,.$ 3,750.00 $ 5,000.00 $ 5,000.00

To pay the salary of the auditor,..

4,500.00 4,500.00

To pay the salary of the treasurer,
To pay the salary of the attorney

3,375.00
2,208.33

Nine months
Ending June
30, 1913.

Judicial Department.

..$20,625.00 $27,500.00 $27,500.00

To pay the salaries of the judges
of the supreme court,
To pay the salaries of the judges
of the circuit courts,

51,975.00 69,300.00 69,300.00 Keeper of the Rolls. To pay the salary of the keeper of the rolls,

...

.$ 225.00 $ 300.00 $ Janitor.

300.00

To pay the salary of the janitor,..$ 1,125.00 $ 1,500.00 $ 1,500.00

Commissioner of Banking.

To pay the salary of the commis

sioner of banking,

$ 1,875.00 $ 2,500.00 $ 2,500.00

Department of Mines.

To pay the salary of the chief of

the department of mines, ......$2,250.00 $ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00 Bureau of Labor.

To pay the salary of the commis

sioner of labor,

To pay the salaries of the members

.$ 1,350.00 $1,800.00 $ 1,800.00

of the public service commission, 4,000.00 24,000.00 24,000.00 Forestry, Game and Fish Warden.

To pay the salary of the forestry, game and fish warden,

.$ 1,350.00 $1,800.00 $ 1,800.00 Board of Control.

To pay the salaries of the members of the board of control,

$11,250.00 $15,000.00 $15,000.00 State Board of Regents.

To pay the salaries of the four

members of the board of regents, $ 3,000.00 $ 4,000.00 $ 4,000.00 Sec. 2. The first column of figures appearing in the foregoing section of this act shall be deemed to indicate the amount intended to be appropriated by the legislature for the aforesaid salaries, respectively, for nine months only, beginning on the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen; the second column of figures appearing in the foregoing section shall be deemed to indicate the amount intended to be appropriated by the legislature for the aforesaid salaries, respectively, for the new fiscal

year as established by an act passed by the legislature of one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and shall cover the new fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen; and the third column of figures shall be deemed to indicate the amount intended to be appropriated by the legislature for the aforesaid salaries, respectively, for the new fiscal year beginning on the first day July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

Sec. 3. The auditor is hereby authorized and directed, when properly demanded, to issue his warrants upon the treasury in the same manner as he would be required to if every item of the expenditure were directed to be paid to the creditor by name, and no money shall be drawn from the treasury for the purpose herein named during the nine months ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and the new fiscal years ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, respectively, beyond the amount hereby appropriated unless the same is authorized by the constitution or some general law.

(Senate Bill No. 230.)

CHAPTER 3.

AN ACT making appropriations of public money to pay general charges upon the treasury.

(Passed February 21, 1913. In effect from passage. approval of the Governor.)

Became a law without the

When fiscal year begins and ends. How appropriations for public institutions are to be drawn.

All officers, employes, head of department or of an institution, or board to make report to the governor biennially as to clerk hire, etc.; how state board of control shall report.

Printing, etc., used for the free school department and for certain boards, officers or institutions; how paid for.

No moneys to be paid beyond appropriations except as provided by constitution or some general law or as provided for in this section: what payments may be made after expiration of fiscal year ending June 30,

1915. Clerk of the House and clerk of the Senate shall jointly make up and furnish the auditor, certified copy of acts carrying appropriations.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

Sec. 1. That there be and are hereby appropriated out of the treasury for the nine months ending June thirtieth, one thousand. nine hundred and thirteen, and for the new fiscal year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, the following sums of money for the following purposes: