LEGISLATURE OF WEST VIRGINIA ACTS OF 1913. (House Bill No. 2.) CHAPTER 1. 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 All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.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. 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 To pay the salary of the governor,.$ 3,750.00 $ To pay the salary of the auditor,.. 3,375.00 the rolls, .$ 225.00 $ 300.00 $ 300.00 Janitor. 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.) SEC. Became a law without the Board of examiners in optometry. State law library. Forestry, game and fish. 15a. Forestry, game and fish protection. Berkeley Springs board. State geological and economic sur 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. West Virginia childrens home. vey. 83. 47. Miners' hospital No. 2. 84. 85. 50. West Virginia industrial home for Glenville normal school. Concord normal school. 87. Montgomery. 88. Distribution of general school fund. Payment of county superintendents Supplemental aid to schools. Printing, etc., for free school department. Clerks and contingent expenses for the office of state snperintendent of free schools. Uniform examinations. Erroneous assessments. Erroneous payments into the treas ury. Reprinting and binding supreme court reports. For pay of state agents. State building and suitable exhibit of West Virginia resources at the Panama Pacific exposition at San Francisco in 1915. Miscellaneous appropriations. Refunding county, district municipal taxes. Overpaid taxes. Delinquent taxes. and 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 blennially as to clerk hire, etc.; how state board of control shall report. 86. Printing, etc., used for the free No moneys to be paid beyond appro- 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: |