The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-19
ACTS OF ASSEMBLY
TAKE EFFECT TODAY
Old Normal School Boards Are
Winding Up Their
Affairs.
RADF0RD LEAVES $4,000 DEBT
Wording of Appropriation Act
Prevents Payment, Though
Money Is in Treasury.

More than 500 acts OF the recent scs-
sion of the General Assemble some OF
them Of Statewide Importance and
others of purely local interest, go into
effect to-day. About fifty appoint
within the next few days to new boards
authorized at the recent session I'm
less specified in the act AS an emcr-
Iency measure. taking effect from it's
passage or having specific date
named in the bill. like tho new pri-
mary law, which does not take effect
until January ], all acts Of the General
Assembly take effect ninety days after
the final adjournment of tho session.
New laws effective to-day include
the enabling act, which provides for
tn" calling on petition an election on
September % for the purpose of dc
tcrnninlng for or against Statewide
prohibition; the bill providing for the
acceptance by the state of the Nir-
ginia Home and Industrial School for
Girls. in Chesterfield County; trans
ferrins the farm demonstration work
from the old United Agricultural Board.
which Is abolished, to the hoard of the
ISlacksburg Agricultural school; pro-
viding for tho appointment of Code re-
visers, and for tho appointment OF "a
new joint board to control the four
State normal schools, heretofore opcr-
ated Independently and in competition
with each other.
R-ADFORD BOARD
LEAVES $1,000 DEBT
Anticipating the organization OF the
now general normal school board, to
he named by the Governor within the
next day or two, the various normal
school boards have been winding up
their affairs. The Radford and Fred
oricksburg boards were in session In
st,.1tt al NpG Nr1p al he Ian SntI
burg board at that place. Tho Rad
ford board Will go out OF Office with
Il debt of $4,000, represented by a note
for which the members of the board
have gtTcu their personal Endorsement.
Although the money is In the State
treasury to the credit OF the Radford
Normal School. because of the word
ing Of tho appropriation bill it has
boon found To he Impossible to make
the settlement before the new board
comes into Office.
1t appears that in 1911" tho Rad
ford board, while engaged in the cree
ton of buildings for the new institu-
ton, which opened it's doors FOR pupils
last September, exceeded the appro-
priatiou by $4,000 which amount was
secured by note. 1t was expected
that the recent General Assembly
would take UP this note, though there
was marked antipathy at that session,
both in the Finance Committees and on
the floor, To encouraging the practice
on the part of State boards OF eX-
cccdinS their appropriations. Tho Rad
ford board asked the State 10 pay the
note for $1,000 and TO provide $4,000
for "a new dormitory. The appropria-
tion went through all right, but reads:
$4,000 for a new dormltory." state
Auditor Moore has held, and is sus-
tanned by Acknowledgement Pollard.
that under this wording Of the law
.
debt on an old building, having been
appropriated specifically toward tho
erection OF new building.
\ conference was held yesterday be-
tween members Of the Radford board
the Auditor. Attorney General and
members OF the Finance Committees of
the two houses, at which ii developed
that ii WAS the clear intention in draw
ing the appropriation bill TO pay the
debt, but as the wording Of the bill
does not say so, Mr.. Pollard decided
that IT could not now be paid.
Mr.. Pollard said last night that il
was his understanding that the money
would bo left in the state treasury,
and that ii could lie authorized for
payment to take up the note ny. Il
simple resolution Of the General AS
scmbly at the special session next Jan
uary.
WILL. CIRCULATE
PETITIONS EOIt SIGNATURE
It Is understood that the Anti Saloon
League OF Virginia VIII begin at once
the circulation of petitions for the
holding of the proposed Statewide
Under the act the petition
must he signed ny onc-fourth as many
qualified voters rs participated in the
last election for Governor. AS this was
al the time of the election of Cover
nor stuart, when there was no ONO
sition, the vote was light. According
TO the journal of the House OF Dele
gates there were 72.i2l votes cast,
making il necessary to secure the sig
natures OF lS,106 qualified voters. The
act provides the mode OF tho certify
ing the lists by the clerks of the var
lous counties, and as the Governor must
give sixty days notice of the time OF
the election, which is fixed In the act
for September 30, it follows that the
petitions must be in the hands of the
Governor by July "a.
1t is stated that the title to tho
property of the Virginia Home and In
dustrial School for Girls has been ey
hnned and found TO be clear The
present trustees are preparing to turn
INC property over to the State imme-
diatcly on the appointment by tho
GOVERNOR of the new board authorized
under the act of the General Assembly