WHEREAS, all four of said persons lived away from Charleston and came to Charleston to attend meetings of such committee and incurred traveling expenses to and hotel expenses in Charleston before the meeting of this legislature as follows, to-wit:

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

That the above amounts be paid to each of the above persons and that the amount due to the senators be paid out of the Senate contingent fund, and the amount due to the delegates shall be paid out of the house contingent fund; and the clerk of the senate and the sergeant-at-arms of the house of delegates are hereby directed to draw their warrants on the auditor payable out of the respective contingent funds in favor of the parties herein named.

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 23.

(Adopted April 28, 1921.) ̧

"Providing for the payment of counsel fees to Thomas Coleman, for legal services rendered to the committee appointed by Governor John J. Cornwell, under Senate Joint Resolution No. 21, of the session of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and to the subcommittee of the roads committees of the House and Senate during the sessions of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and during the interim between such sessions."

WHEREAS, The committee appointed by Governor John J. Cornwell, under Senate Joint Resolution No. 21, of the session one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, employed Thomas Coleman as counsel for such committee; and

WHEREAS, Such employment was continued by the sub-committee of the committees on roads of the house and senate during the sessions of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and during the interim between such sessions; and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to such employment, the said Thomas Coleman rendered services substantially as follows:

The said Coleman sat with the committee first above named during hearings of expert road officials from the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, while such officials were being examined and giving information relative to road construction in their respective states, and after said hearings were completed, the said Coleman sat with the said committee during sundry sessions thereof where important phases of the new road law to be constructed were being considered, and participated in such discussions and conferences; thereafter he proceeded to formulate and write, under the advice and direction of the said committee, the new road law for the state of West Virginia, creating a road commission and defining and setting forth their powers, duties and responsibilities, adopting from other states. the best provisions of their laws, so far as applicable to this state; sitting with said committee in numerous sessions where the more important provisions to enter into said bill were elaborately debated and discussed; writing repeatedly many sections of the said bill to meet the approval of the committee, discussion with the committee of an almost endless variety of questions having to do with the form and subject matter of the said bill; during the course of its construction, parts of said law were written by members of the committee, particularly portions of the automobile code and that portion of the said act having to do with the jurisdiction of the county courts over county-district roads, largely copied from the existing law, also a few of the important sections of the law governing the powers and duties. of the newly created state road commission; the final drafting of the bill for submission to the committee and the introduction into the legislature at the January session thereof, work on the said bill after its submission at the said January session, continuing through the interim and the second session of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, which work consisted in re-arranging the sections of the said bill in more logical order, eliminating certain repetitions and inconsistencies, combining sections containing related subject matter, writing new sections, altering and improving the phraseology in a great number of instances, and making many changes and amendments designated to more thoroughly safeguard the distribution and use of public funds, the letting of contracts and dealings with contractors, the regulation of traffic upon the highways and better protecting the public interests in a great variety of ways, sitting with road engineers in the employ of the state road commission called from different parts of the state to meet and submit in typewritten form any amend

ments they might have to propose to the said bill, and the hearing of a great number of amendments proposed by them in typewritten form; the preparation in typewritten form of several hundred proposed amendments to the said bill offered by the said counsel, by the said engineers, by the joint committees of the Charleston chamber of commerce, the Charleston Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, the chamber of commerce of the city of Parkersburg, the associated chambers of commerce assembled in convention at Clarksburg, by county and state road engineers, individually, by the federal engineer in charge of the federal aid in West Virginia, by automobile clubs, road committees, individuals and sundry other proponents of amendments, and submission to the committee of the joint committee of the two houses of the legislature of said proposed amendments, in so far as they were deemed by the said counsel worthy of consideration by the committee; the consideration of all such proposed amendments section by section by the committee; constant work and conferences with members of the said committee, and meetings with such committee for the purpose of drafting and re-drafting certain of the most vital portions of the said bill, as well as portions thereof of minor importance, with a view to bringing the said bill to the highest possible point of perfection, the preparation of the said bill in typewritten form, with all amendments allowed by the committee, for reprint; the proposal by the said counsel of sundry other amendments, some of which having to do with the larger phases of the said measure, which were adopted by the committee, and the preparation of the copy for the next reprint thereof; the preparation of the manuscript for three reprints of the said bill after its introduction into the legislature at the January session thereof, making amendments thereto each time, and bringing the said bill more nearly to meet the requirements of the said committee, during all of which labors, the said counsel acted in collaboration with the said committees and its members, and under the direction thereof, receiving from such committees definite directions ast to much of the said work, and the aid and co-operation of the members of such committees whenever consulted by the said counsel for information, advice or direction pertaining to any question arising during the course of the writing of the said bill, all of which services. covered the period from on or about January first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, to the introduction of the said bill into the legislature for passage thereof in the month of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring thereins

That the auditor be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer, payable to the said Thomas Coleman for the legal services aforesaid, for the sum of two thousand dollars, said warrant to be drawn on the contingent funds of the senate and house of delegates, respectively, in equal proportions.

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 24.

(Adopted April 28, 1921.)

"Providing for the payment of stenographic and typewriting services of Laura J. Coyle, shorthand reporter, and her assistants, rendered to the counsel for the committee appointed by Governor John J. Cornwell, under Senate Joint Resolution No. 21, of the session of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and to the sub-committee of the roads committees of the senate and house during the sessions of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and during the interim between the said sessions."

WHEREAS, the committee appointed by Governor John J. Cornwell, under Senate Joint Resolution No. 21, of the session one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, employed Thomas Coleman as counsel for the said committee, and directed him to employ a stenographer to render such services as might be necessary in the discharge of his duties as such counsel; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to such direction, the said Coleman employed the said Laura J. Coyle as such stenographer; and

WHEREAS, the said Laura J. Coyle, pursuant to such employment, in the course of the drafting of the Good Roads bill, rendered to the said Coleman, as such counsel, the following stenographic services: Jan. 7-1 hr. dict. @ $1.00; 3 pp trans. 1 copy, @ 50-5c.. $ 2.65 Jan. 8-1 hr. dict. @ $1.00; 3 pp. trans. 1 copy @ 50-5c.. Jan. 10-1 hr. dict. @ $1.00; 3 pp. trans. 1 copy, @50-5c.. Jan. 11- hr. dict.

Jan. 15-1 day diet.

2.65

2.65

1.00

7.50

23.80

7.50

Jan. 17-Trans. of above, 21 pp. 7 copies @ 50-5c

Jan. 15-28 pp. 7 copies @ 50-6c

Jan. 17-1 day dict

Jan. 18-3 hrs. dict. (a $1.00; 8 pp. trans. 2 copies @

Jan. 22-3 hrs. dict. @ $1.00 ($3.00) trans. 68 pp. 4 copies,

Apr. 12-To writing 9 stencils @ $2.50 (30 copies), $22.50;

1 hr. dict. (a $1.00,

23.50

Total

$759.75

Therefore, be it

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

That the auditor be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer, payable to the said Laura J. Coyle, for the stenographic and typewriting services itemized herein, for the sum of seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents, said warrant to be drawn on the contingent funds of the senate and house of delegates, respectively, in equal proportion.