lected by legal process from, the personal property which may be exempt from levy or distress under the poor debtor's law. The General Assembly may authorize the board of supervisors of any county, or the council of any city or town, to levy an additional capitation tax not exceeding one dollar per annum on every such resident within its limits, which shall be applied in aid of the public schools of such county, city or town, or for such other county, city or town purposes as they shall determine.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

Sec. 173. There is hereby levied, for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-three and for every year thereafter, a State capitation tax of one dollar and fifty cents on every male and female resident of the State not less than twenty-one years of age, except those pensioned by this State for military services; one dollar of which shall be applied exclusively in aid of the public free schools, in proportion to the school population, and the residue shall be returned and paid by the State into the treasury of the county or city in which it was collected, to be appropriated by the proper county or city authorities to such county or city purposes as they shall respectively determine; but said State capitation tax shall not be a lien upon, nor collected by legal process from, the personal property which may be exempt from levy or distress under the poor debtor's law. The General Assembly shall not levy any State capitation tax in addition to that levied by this Constitution, but may authorize the board of supervisors of any county, or the council of any city or town, to levy an additional capitation tax not exceeding one dollar per annum on every such resident within its limits, which shall be applied in aid of the public schools of such county, city or town, or for such other county, city or town purposes as they shall determine.

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 170 of the Constitution of Virginia.

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring (a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing), That the following amendment to the Constitution of Virginia be, and the same is hereby, proposed and referred to the General Assembly to be chosen at the next general election of the members of the House of Delegates, for its concurrenc, in conformity with the provisions of section one hundred and ninety-six of article fifteen of said Constitution, namely:

Strike out from the Constitution of Virginia section one hundred and seventy, which is in the words and figures following:

Sec. 170. The General Assembly may levy a tax on incomes in excess of six hundred dollars per annum; may levy a license tax upon any business which cannot be reached by the ad valorem system; and may impose State franchise taxes, and in imposing a franchise tax, may, in its discretion, make the same in lieu of taxes upon other property, in whole or in part, of a transportation, industrial, or commercial corporation. Whenever a franchise tax shall be imposed upon a corporation doing business in this State, or whenever all the capital, however invested, of a corporation chartered under the laws of this State, shall be taxed, the shares of stock issued by any such corpora

tion, shall not be further taxed. No city or town shall impose any tax or assessment upon abutting land owners for street or other public local improvements, except for making and improving the walkways upon then existing streets, and improving and paving then existing alleys, and for either the construction, or for the use of sewers; and the same when imposed, shall not be in excess of the peculiar benefits resulting therefrom to such abutting land owners. Except in cities and towns, no such taxes or assessments, for local public improvements shall be imposed on abutting land owners.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

Sec. 170. The General Assembly may levy a tax on incomes in excess of six hundred dollars per annum; may levy a license tax upon any business which cannot be reached by the ad valorem system; and may impose State franchise taxes, and in imposing a franchise tax, may, in its discretion, make the same in lieu of taxes upon other property, in whole or in part, of a transportation, industrial, or commercial corporation. Whenever a franchise tax shall be imposed upon a corporation doing business in this State, or whenever all the capital, however invested, of a corporation chartered under the laws of this State, shall be taxed, the shares of stock issued by any such corporation, shall not be further taxed. No city or town shall impose any tax or assessment upon abutting land owners for public local improvements, except for paving streets, curbs, gutters, walkways, and alleys, and for the construction of sewers, other than main outlets, and the same, when imposed upon the abutting land owners on each side thereof, shall not exceed one-fourth of the cost of such local public improvements. But no taxes or assessments for such local public improvements other than for making and improving the walkways upon then existing streets, and improving and paving then existing alleys, and for the construction of sewers, other than main outlets, shall be imposed on abutting land owners except in such cities and towns as by a majority of the qualified voters voting shall favor the adoption by and for such city or town of the policy of levying such taxes or assessments, at an election in which that question shall be submitted to the qualified voters thereof by an ordinance duly adopted by the council or other governing body, and such body may by a similar ordinance submit to such voters the question of repealing such policy to be determined by a majority of the qualified voters voting at a subsequent election. No tax or assessment for such undertakings as are mentioned in section one hundred and twenty-seven-b of this Constitution shall in any case be imposed on abutting land owners. Except in cities and towns and counties having a population greater than three hundred inhabitants per square mile, as shown by United States census, no taxes or assessments, for local public improvements shall be imposed on abutting land owners.

A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section 132 of the Constitution of Virginia.

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring (a majority of the members elected to each house agreeing), That the following amendment to section one hundred and thirty-two of the Constitution of Virginia

be, and the same is hereby, proposed and referred to the General Assembly to be chosen at the next general election of members of the House of Delegates for its concurrence, in conformity with the provisions of section one hundred and ninety-six of the said Constitution, namely:

Strike out from the Constitution of Virginia section one hundred and thirty-two, which is in the following words:

Sec. 132. The duties and powers of the State board of education shall be as follows:

First. It may, in its discretion, divide the State into appropriate school divisions, comformation of such division. It shall, subject to the confirmation of the Senate, appoint for prising not less than one county or city each, but no county or city shall be divided in the each of such divisions, one superintendent of schools, who shall hold office for four years, and shall prescribe his duties, and may remove him for cause and upon notice.

Second. It shall have, regulated by law, the management and investment of the school fund.

Third. It shall have authority to make all needful rules and regulations for the management and conduct of the schools, which, when published and distributed, shall have the force and effect of law, subject to the authority of the General Assembly to revise, amend or repeal the same.

Fourth. It shall select text-books and educational appliances for use in the schools of the State, exercising such discretion as it may see fit in the selection of books suitable for the schools in the cities and counties respectively.

Fifth. It shall appoint a board of directors, consisting of five members, to serve without compensation, which shall have the management of the State library and the appointment of a librarian and other employees thereof, subject to such rules and regulations as the General Assembly shall prescribe; but the Supreme Court of Appeals shall have the management of the law library and the appointment of the librarian and other employees thereof.

And insert in lieu thereof the following:

Sec. 132. The powers and duties of the State board of education shall be prescribed by law.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of amendments proposed to the Constitution and agreed to by the General Assembly of Virginia, session 1920, and the same is published in pursuance of section 196 of the Constitution and act of the General Assembly, approved March 19, 1920.

The original requests for bids, the bids of the several newspapers, the certificate of the newspaper carrying the publication that the proposed amendments had been published as required by law and the Constitution, together with copies of letters to the clerks of courts transmitting the copies for distribution, are on file in this office.

Respectfully submitted,

JNO. W. WILLIAMS, Clerk of the House of Delegates.

REPORT

OF

Tuberculosis Committee

VIRGINIA
1920

Letter of Transmittal

To the Members of the General Assembly of Virginia:

GENTLEMEN:

Your undersigned committee for the study of tuberculosis in Virginia, appointed under a joint resolution of the General Assembly, agreed to February 25, 1921, as follows:

Whereas, pursuant to a joint resolution of the General Assembly approved February 8, 1915, a commission of five members was appointed by the Governor, charged with the duty of formulating a general and comprehensive plan for the control of tuberculosis in Virginia; and

Whereas, on the 20th day of December, 1915, the commission made its report to the Governor, who in turn submitted it to the General Assembly under date of December 30, 1915; and

Whereas, since that time it has been demonstrated elsewhere that it is possible to eradicate tuberculosis from the body-politic; and Whereas, it is the earnest desire of the General Assembly that this beneficent result may be accomplished in this Commonwealth; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Delegates concurring), That a joint committee of five members, two of whom shall be appointed by the President of the Senate and three by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, be, and it is hereby, constituted, whose duty it shall be to investigate the laws of other jurisdictions and to report to the next session of the General Assembly a plan for the eradication of tuberculosis from this Commonwealth, which plan shall be accomplished by the necessary bill or bills to carry the same into effect;

begs leave herewith to submit its report.

Your committee announces with pleasure that the death rate in Virginia has declined approximately eighteen per cent since 1915, at which time the first tuberculosis commission handed in its report with various recommendations which have since been completely fulfilled. This falling death rate represents the saving of 1,516 lives in the Commonwealth.

II. Yet in 1920 more than two and one-half times as many persons died from tuberculosis alone as from seven of the most dreaded infectious diseases