As early as practicable in the year following that of the meeting of the legislature in regular session, the complete, illustrated edition of the Hand Book shall be issued, containing the United States and state constitutions; current history of the several departments of the state government and state institutions; brief biographies of the officers of the state government; the joint rules and rules of the two houses of the legislature; a review of the work of the present legislature, followed by illustrated biographical sketches of its presiding officers and members; a digest of important legislative enactments; consolidated tables covering national and state election returns for one thousand nine hundred and sixteen and one thousand nine hundred and twenty; a re-revision of the official register division; and any other matter bearing upon the past or current history of West Virginia, deemed pertinent by the editor and compiler.

The cost of printing and binding the Hand Book, including any maps and half-tone illustrations used therein, and circular matter necessary in connection with the work of preparing and distributing the book, shall be paid out of the appropriations for printing, binding and stationery.

Under the supervision of the editor and compiler, the following distribution shall be made:

Fifty copies to each member of the legislature;

Two copies to each senator and representative in the congress

of the United States from this state;

Two copies to the congressional library at Washington;

Ten copies to the judges and clerk of the supreme court of appeals ;

Ten copies to the state law library;

One copy each to the judges of the circuit, criminal and intermediate courts;

One hundred copies to the chief executive;

Two hundred and fifty copies to the department of archives and history for exchange with other states and libraries outside the state;

Fifty copies to the state board of control for use of the board and for supplying the several state institutions;

Ten copies to the state university;

Five copies to each of the branches of the university and the state normal schools:

Twenty-five copies to the state auditor;
Twenty copies to the state treasurer;

Fifty copies to the tax commissioner;

Twenty-five copies to the workmen's compensation department;
Sixty copies to the public health council;
Twenty-five copies to the public service commission;

Ten copies to the department of banking;

Twenty copies to the department of mines;

Four hundred copies to the department of free schools for supplying county superintendents, district supervisors and principals of high schools;

Ten copies to the department of labor;

Twenty copies to the department of agriculture;

Ten copies to the attorney general;

Ten copies to the state geological survey;

Fifty copies to the state road bureau;

Ten copies to the department of forestry, game and fish; One copy each to the county and circuit court clerks, sheriffs, and prosecuting attorneys throughout the state;

One copy each to all officers and members of state political committees and to the chairmen and secretaries of county political committees;

Three hundred copies to the editor and compiler of the hand book for supplying public libraries and the libraries of private and denominational schools of the state and the members of the next succeeding legislature.

To the secretary of state the remainder of the edition to be hereafter agreed upon by the superintendent of public printing and the editor and compiler of the book, the same to be available for supplying the members of the legislature with extra copies, if called for, educators throughout the state not already herein provided for; and for general distribution; and the secretary of state may fix a price upon the hand-book covering the cost of publication, with a reasonable profit added as is done with the acts of the legislature, and charge the same in all proper cases, the money derived from sales to be accounted for in the same manner as provided from sales of the acts and the West Virginia reports.

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 8.

(Adopted April 12, 1921.)

"Providing for the introduction of a bill."

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring therein:

That permission is hereby given by the legislature to introduce a bill with title as follows:

"A Bill to provide for the location, building and maintenance of a hospital for the treatment and relief of wounded and disabled West Virginia soldiers, sailors and marines of the world war, providing for its location, management and superintendence.”

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 10.

(Adopted April 27, 1921.)

"Authorizing the governor to appoint a commission to provide a memorial for soldiers of the world war to be erected in a place of honor in the new capitol building to be constructed in West Virginia."

Resolved by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring thereins

That, inasmuch as the erection of a new capitol building for West Virginia comes soon after the victorious close of the world war in which American soldiers, including thousands from our state, turned the scales of war to the side of human freedom and saved the liberties of the world, thereby deserving the plaudits of mankind throughout the centuries to come;

Therefore, The governor is authorized to appoint a commission of three persons who served in the army of the United States between the dates of April seven, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen and July one, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, to examine into and report back at the next session of the legislature a fitting and proper memorial in the new capitol building.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6.

(Adopted January 21, 1921.)

"Providing a place for the meeting of the Senate and House of Delegates."

WHEREAS, the county court of Kanawha county and the judges of the circuit court, court of common pleas and intermediate court of Kanawha county have extended to the legislature the use of the court room in the court house of Kanawha county called the intermediate court room for the sessions of the house of delegates and the court room in said court house called the circuit court room for the use of the Senate at its session, which sessions begin on the 16th day of March, 1921, and in addition thereto the said courts have extended to the legislature the use of a large number of rooms in said court house as clerks' offices and committee rooms and for any other purpose that may be needed; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virignia:

That at the sessions of the legislature beginning on the 16th day of March, 1921, the house of delegates shall meet in the court room now known as the intermediate court room and the senate shall meet in the court room now known as the circuit court room in said court house, and that a commission be appointed to be composed of the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of delegates, the clerk of the senate, the clerk of the house of delegates, the sergeant-at-arms of the senate and the sergeant-at-arms of the house of delegates, which committee shall make due and proper preparation for the convenient meeting of the senate and the house of delegates in said rooms, and shall provide such furniture as may be proper for such purposes and shall do any and all other things proper, necessary and convenient to fix said rooms in convenient shape for such sessions, and said commission is authorized to incur such reasonable expenses as may be necessary for such purposes, which sums of money will be provided for in the appropriation bill to be passed at such session of the legislature.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 7.

(Senate Substitute.)

(Adopted January 25, 1921.)

"Authorizing the auditor to issue warrants for the salary and per diem of members, and for the per diem of officers and attaches of the legislature."

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the auditor is hereby authorized to issue his warrants upon the treasurer, in advance of the passage of the legislative appropriation bill, for the salary of members of the legislature, as provided by the act passed at this initial session, together with their mileage as provided by law; that he is further authorized to pay the compensation of the officers and employees of the two houses, upon the same basis as allowed them in the legislative appropriation bill passed at the regular session of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, together with the compensation of the clerks of the two houses and such other officers and employees as it may be necessary to retain in connection with work to be done between the initial and adjourned sessions. All warrants for mileage of members and for the compensation of the officers and attaches of the senate to be paid upon proper requisitions drawn by the clerk of the senate, and all warrants for mileage of members of the house of delegates and for the compensation of the officers and attaches of the house of delegates to be paid upon requisition drawn by the sergeant-at-arms of the house of delegates.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8.

(Adopted January 26, 1921.)

"Authorizing the appointment of a select committee, with authority to make such investigation of the official acts, rules and practices of the public service commission as said committee shall deem proper."

WHEREAS, Honorable John J. Cornwell, Governor, by special message, communicated to this body, on the twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, transmitted a letter from the members and secretary of the public service commission, requesting the appointment of a legislative committee, with author