patrons of bills may have not exceeding thirty minutes to explain his bill.

MR. FORD offered the following amendment:

"Any member of the House can give ten minutes of his time to any speaker, but no speaker can speak longer than thirty minutes;" which was rejected.

The resolution offered by MR. WILLIS was agreed to.

MR. OZLIN presented the report of the Joint Committee appointed to investigate the State Highway Department, State Highway Commissioner and State Highway Commission, together with the minority report of certain members.

Printed as Senate Document No. 14.

MR. HOOVER of Rockingham offered the following resolution: Whereas, this House has heard with sorrow of the bereavement which has befallen our associate, the member from Shenandoah, in the loss of his mother;

Resolved, That we express to him our deepest sympathy, and resolved further that the Clerk of the House communicate to him a copy of this resolution; which was agreed to.

The following were presented and referred under Rule 37:

To the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation: BY MR. SMITH of Alexandria: A bill imposing an annual license fee upon signs, signboards and billboards in Arlington county, Virginia, defining the manner of issuing such licenses, providing for the removal of signboards and billboards erected or maintained without license; and imposing a penalty for the placing, erecting or maintaining of a sign, signboard or billboard without such license, but exempting signs, signboards and billboards relating to the business conducted on the premises or relating to the premises on which the sign is located, or signs of a limited size used wholly or partly for travel direction purposes, or signs which advertise the communities in which or adjacent to which such signs are located.

BY MR. SMITH of Alexandria (by request): A bill to create Arlington sanitary district, imposing certain duties on the board of supervisors, granting to said board the power of eminent domain, and authorizing the issuance of bonds upon certain conditions, and to repeal an act approved March 25, 1920.

By MR. EWELL: A bill to authorize, empower and direct the board of supervisors of the county of Princess Anne to borrow money by the issue of bonds in the aggregate sum of fifteen thousand ($15.000.00) dollars for the purpose of building and improving school buildings in Pungo magisterial district in said county: to sell the said bonds: to provide for the payment of interest thereon and principal thereof and to authorize the school board for Pungo district of Princess Anne county to dispense the funds so obtained.

By MESSRS. GRAY of Washington and DEFRIECE: A bill authorizing the board of supervisors of Washington county to designate a road from Holston to Mendota in said county, to be constructed according to State highway plans with local and State funds, local funds to be reimbursed out of State funds, and road to be maintained and controlled by State Highway Commission. By MR. CRAFT: A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the taking of fish from the streams in Scott county, and providing penalties for the violation of same and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 16, 1918.

By MR. MCCOTTER: A bill to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to create the city of Hopewell, in the county of Prince George; to provide temporary and permanent officers for its organization and management and to authorize the assessment and collection of revenue necessary for the permanent improvement and government of said city, approved February 26, 1916, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920.

To the Committee on Finance:

By MESSRS. SMITH of Norfolk county, BREWER, ÖZLIN, MCNUTT, HADDON, SHEPHERD, SMITH of Albemarle, PAGE, FARRIER, ANDERSON and BROWN of Lynchburg: A bill to provide a simple remedy for the correction of erroneous assessments of taxes when such error is due to a mistake on the part of the assessing officer, or to the mistake of the officer on whose report the assessment was made.

The morning hour having expired, the House proceeded to the business on the calendar.

The following Senate bills were read at length a first time: No. 133. Senate bill to provide for the establishment of recreation centers and for the teaching of home-crafts.

No. 83. Senate bill to prohibit the selling of children; to protect children from wilful or negligent injuries; and to prevent children from being overworked, tortured, tormented, mutilated, or cruelly beaten or cruelly treated.

No. 173. Senate bill concerning the custody of children.

No. 80. Senate bill to provide for licensing, regulation, and inspection of children's boarding houses and nurseries.

No. 79. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 5333 of the Code of Virginia as amended by an act approved March 19, 1920. No. 93. Senate bill to provide for the licensing, regulation and inspection of maternity hospitals, and to repeal sections 1925 to 1930, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.

No. 385. House bill to amend and re-enact section 319 of the Code of Virginia; was read at length a first time and ordered to be printed.

No. 41. House bill prohibiting the recordation of certain deeds, unless the next immediate source from which the particular grantor

derived title be stated in the deed; having been printed, was read at length a second time.

On motions severally made by MESSRS. FARRIER, SMITH of Norfolk county, PRICE and HALL, the bill was severally amended.

The bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed.

The hour of 12 o'clock M. having arrived-No. 303 House bill to amend and re-enact section 78 of the Code of Virginia-special order, having been printed, was read at length a second time. Pending consideration of the bill, on motion of MR. CAMPBELL, the House adjourned.

JOHN W. WILLIAMS,

RICHARD L. BREWER, JR., Speaker of the House of Delegates.

Clerk of the House of Delegates.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1922.

Prayer by Rev. Austin O. Boda, D. D., of Northside Baptist church. Richmond, Va.

On motion of MR. SMITH of Northumberland, the reading of the Journal was dispensed with.

THE SPEAKER and Clerk signed the Journal as provided by Rule 3.

The following Senate bills, having been considered by the committee in session, were reported from the Committee for Courts of Justice.

No. 35. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 5194 of the Code of Virginia with reference to the recordation of contracts, deeds, etc., that are void as to creditors and purchasers unless recorded. (With amendments.)

No. 287. Senate bill prescribing the times of holding the regular terms of court in the twenty-fourth and thirty-third judicial circuits.

The following Senate bills, having been considered by the committee in session, were reported from the Committee on Finance:

No. 251. Senate bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 16, 1903, and acts amendatory thereof, by adding a new section to be known as section 44%, imposing a tax upon a transfer at death of the personal property of non-residents, and providing penalties for the violation of this

section.

No. 291. Senate bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled an

act to define the status of persons having their actual or habitual places of abode in this State for the larger portion of the twelve months succeeding the first day of February in each year for the purposes of taxation, approved March 16, 1918, and acts amendatory thereof.

The following Senate bills, having been considered by the committee in session, were reported from the Committee on Insurance and Banking:

No. 225. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 4278 of the Code of 1919.

No. 158. Senate bill to authorize and validate the payment of small bank balances and small sums due from employers to next of kin of decedent. (With amendments.)

The following House bills, having been considered by the committee in session, were reported from the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns:

No. 386. House bill to amend the charter of the town of Pennington Gap, Lee county, Virginia; to authorize the issuing of bonds for roads, sewers and water; and to authorize the town to sell, lease, etc., its property. rights of ways, etc., to secure water.

No. 387. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, 15, 18-b, 19-h, 19-i, 25, 29, 30, 40, 43, 44, 65 and 78 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as the same may have been heretofore amended.

No. 388. House bill to authorize the county of Amherst to borrow money and issue bonds for a sum not exceeding two hundred and seventy thousand ($270,000.00) dollars.

No. 389. House bill to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Madison, in the county of Madison, approved March 20, 1875.

No. 390. House bill to provide for the drainage of low lands in the county of Princess Anne.

No. 391. House bill to prohibit the killing, capturing or chasing of deer in the counties of Bath and Highland for a term of four

years.

No. 392. House bill to authorize the Commissioner of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to issue nonresident hunting and fishing licenses to United States field inspectors of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture. United States field inspectors of the Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce.

No. 393. House bill to provide that all lands owned or controlled by the Commonwealth shall constitute game sanctuaries. No. 394. House bill to amend and re-enact section 3307 of the Code of Virginia. (Without recommendation.)

No. 395. House bill to amend and re-enact section 3325 of the Code of Virginia. (Without recommendation.)

The following House bills, having been considered by the committee in session, were reported from the Committee for Courts of Justice:

No. 396. House bill to amend and re-enact section 6296 of the Code of Virginia of 1919, to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3418 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to the appointment of commissioners to execute deeds, approved March

16. 1918.

No. 397. House bill to authorize the Governor, by and with the advice of the Attorney General, to institute and prosecute actions, suits, motions and other proceedings, in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in all cases not provided for by existing law.

No. 398. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4988 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 16. 1920. No. 399. House bill to provide for the appointment of trial justices in counties adjoining one or more cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more in the aggregate; to prescribe the terms of office, jurisdiction, duties and compensation of such trial justices.

No. 400. House bill providing that no assignment of salary or wages, or any writing operating as an assignment hereafter made. shall be valid unless a copy of same shall, within ten days, be delivered by the assignee to the employer of the assignor.

No. 401. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 5867 and 5869 of the Code of Virginia.

(With

No. 402. House bill to provide that women shall have the same rights, privileges and immunities under the law with men. a recommendation that it do not pass.)

No. 403. House bill to amend and re-enact section 6270 of the Code of Virginia.

The following House bills, having been considered by the committee in session, were reported from the Committee on Insurance and Banking:

No. 404. House bill to provide for the supervision and examination of all companies doing business in this State under what is generally known as "The Morris Plan," "The Gammon Plan." "The Stein Plan," or any other companies operating under a similar plan, and to repeal chapter 74 of the Acts of Assembly of 1920, approved February 21, 1920.

No. 405. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 4100, 4104, 4105, 4109, 4113, 4116 and 4117 of the Code of Virginia of 1919. No. 406. House bill to make it a misdemeanor for any person to deliver as payment or conditional payment of any pre-existing liability, obligation or debt, a check, draft or order that is not paid by the drawee, or not paid within five days after written notice of its dishonor shall have been given to the maker or drawer.

No. 407. House bill to provide for the incorporation, establish