The bill was referred to the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation.

House bill to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Tazewell to levy a district school tax; having been considered by the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation, was returned to the House with the following report:

The joint committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation respectfully reports that, in their opinion, the object of the within bill cannot be reached by general law or court proceedings.

W. H. NICKELS, JR., Chairman.

The bill was referred to the Committee on Schools and Colleges.

House bill to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Albemarle annually to levy a special tax of not exceeding one mill on the dollar and to devote the proceeds from such tax to the equipment and maintenance of a county traveling library; having been considered by the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation, was returned to the House with the following report:

The joint committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation respectfully reports that, in their opinion, the object of the within bill cannot be reached by general law or court proceedings.

W. H. NICKELS, JR., Chairman.

The bill was referred to the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns.

House bill to authorize the city school board of the city of South Norfolk to borrow money not in excess of $150,000, and to issue its bonds therefor, to be used for the construction of a high school for white children in the city of South Norfolk and to require the council of said city annually to levy taxes to pay the interest thereon, and to create a sinking fund to redeem the principal thereof at maturity; having been considered by the Joint Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation, was returned to the House with the following report: The joint committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation respectfully reports that, in their opinion, the object of the within bill cannot be reached by general law or court proceedings.

Colleges.

W. H. NICKELS, JR., Chairman.

The bill was referred to the Committee on Schools and

MR. WALLER offered the following joint resolution:

Whereas, of the nine classes of officers who served in the World War, eight classes, namely: Regular officers of the army, navy and marine corps; provisional officers of the army, navy and marine corps and emergency officers of the navy and marine corps-have been granted by Congress the privilege of retirement of disability, when in

curred in line duty, leaving only the disabled emergency officers of the army without such retirement privileges, and

Whereas, an overwhelming number of the members of Congress since the Armistice have promised to correct this injustice to disabled emergency army officers by the enactment of legislation designed to adjust the unfair condition imposed upon this one remaining class of officers; be it

Resolved, by the House of Delegates (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly endorses the demand for recognition of the equality of service of the other eight classes of officers and the emergncy army officers in the proposal to grant retirement privileges to the disabled emergency army officers upon the same basis and with the same privileges as have been granted to the disabled officers of all other classes, including the disabled emergency officers of the navy and marine corps, and be it further

Resolved, That all members of the Seventieth Congress of the United States be, and they are hereby, urged to lend their active support in securing the enactment of the Tyson-Fitzgerald bill as early as possible in the Seventieth Congress, and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to each member of the Congress of the United States from the State of Virginia; which was agreed to.

The following were presented and referred under Rule 37:

To the Committee on General Laws:

By MR. DOVELL: A bill to amend and re-enact the following sections of the Code of Virginia: 1612, 1613, 1614, 1615, as amended; 1616 as amended; 1617, 1618, 1619, 1621, 1622, 1623, 1639, relating to the regulation of the practice of medicine; and to repeal section 1620.

To the Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation:

By MR. BOWLES: A bill declaring the location of Routes 351 and 105 as established by the State Highway Commissioner under the 21⁄2 per cent clause, and annuling Route 125.

By MESSRS. BRYANT, SHEPHERD, TOPPING, HICKS, WARREN. HORNER, PARKER of Bedford, COLEMAN, JONES of Richmond and Rodgers: A bill to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act of the General Assembly entitled "An act to levy a tax on motor vehicle fuels; to provide for its collection; to appropriate revenue raised by the same, and to prescribe penalties," approved March 26, 1923, as last amended by chapter 137 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1926, page 237.

To the Committee on Insurance and Banking:

By MR. BOYD of Lynchburg: A bill to amend and re-enact an act approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty, entitled an act to encourage thrift and savings amongst industrial classes similar to the encouragement afforded by building and loan associations and

to authorize the incorporation of industrial loan associations for the purpose of making small loans to industrial classes on security at a low rate of interest.

To the Committee on Finance:

By MR. KEEZELL: A bill to amend and re-enact section 216 of the Tax Code of Virginia, in relation to taxes on railway and canal corporations.

To the Committee on Appropriations:

By MR. BOLLING: A bill making an appropriation to the rector and visitors of the University of Virginia for the biennium ending on the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and thirty, for additions to the medical group of buildings at the University of Virginia.

To the Committee on the Chesapeake and Its Tributaries:

By MR. WRIGHT of Essex: A bill to provide for reports to be made to the Commissioner of Fisheries by shuckers and packers of oysters, clams and scallops, buyers of oysters in barrels, planters of oysters, buyers and shippers of clams and scallops, crab picking and crating houses, crab canning and packing houses, and buyers and shippers of fish.

By MR. WRIGHT of Essex: A bill to amend and re-enact section 3292 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to crabs.

To the Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns: By MR. REID: A bill to amend and re-enact section 2711 of the Code of Virginia, relating to meetings of boards of supervisors.

By MR. REID: A bill to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to protect the health of the inhabitants of cities and incorporated towns and to protect their property against fire by requiring public service corporations engaged in the business of furnishing water or sewerage facilities to such cities and towns of their inhabitants, to provide at a reasonable charge, an adequate supply and service, and to make such extensions of service as may be necessary for the protection of the health of such inhabitants, and to provide for the enforcement of such public duties where such public service corporations are unable or shall fail or refuse to perform the same," approved March 21, 1924, so as to make the same apply to counties having a population more than 500 inhabitants per square mile.

By MR. WRIGHT of Portsmouth (by request): A bill to provide for the recordation of plats of subdivision of land located in or within. not more than five miles of any city of a population not in excess of 100,000, according to the last United States census, for the vacation thereof, for the construction of public improvements therein and for the rights of such cities in connection therewith.

By MR. REID: A bill to amend and re-enact section 4732 of the

Code of Virginia, relating to constructing sidewalks, planting shade trees, et cetera.

To the Committee for Courts of Justice:

By MR. MCCAULEY: A bill providing for the service on any party to a pending cause of any notice, process, rule, order, or any other legal paper to be used in such pending cause, on the attorney of record for such party to have the same effect as if served on such party in proper person.

By MR. WRIGHT of Essex: A bill to provide for authority to receive payment of judgment by courts and to enter satisfaction thereon, when judgment creditor cannot be found.

To the Committee on Special, Private and Local Legislation:

By MR. TAYLOR (by request): A bill to authorize the town council of the town of Gate City in the county of Scott to grant permsision for the establishment of a cemetery within said town.

By MR. DOVELL: A bill to amend and re-enact section 6 of the charter of the city of Williamsburg as defined by chapter 507 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 17, 1884, and as amended by an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 5, 1900.

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. 100. Senate bill to amend and re-enact subsection 14 of chapter 300 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 20, 1922, relating to the business of making small loans.

No. 161. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section thirteen of the charter of the town of Bedford, as heretofore amended.

No. 97. Senate bill to authorize the city of Hopewell to borrow money, and issue bonds therefor, for permanent public improvement. in said city.

No. 88. Senate bill to repeal "An act to require nonresidents hunting in this State to pay the same fee required of citizens of this State by other States, when in excess of the Virginia fee," approved March 14, 1924, and to repeal sections 3209, 3328, 3329, 3330, 3331, 3332, 3333, 3334, 3335, 3337 and 3339 and to amend and re-enact section 3327 of the Code of Virginia, relating to hunting, trapping and fishing license provisions and providing penalties for violations.

No. 38. Senate bill to repeal sections 3316, 3319, 3320, 3322, 3323, 3326 and 3342 of the Code of Virginia and to amend and re-enact subsections first, second and third of section 3306 of the Code of Virginia.

No. 60. Senate bill to amend and re-enact section 31-a of an act entitled "An act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke and to repeal the existing charter of said city and the several acts amenda

tory thereof and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the city of Roanoke," approved March 22, 1924, page 720 of the Acts of 1924, so as to empower the civil police justice of the city of Roanoke to appoint bail officers and to define the powers of such officers.

The following House bills were read at length a first time and ordered to be printed:

No. 171. House bill to amend and re-enact section 148 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 427 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, in relation to judges of election.

No. 172. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 89 and 200 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by chapter 521 of the Acts of 1926, relating to the pay of officers and members of electoral boards.

No. 173. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 202, 203, 205 and 208 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to absent voters.

No. 174. House bill to provide for a place for holding elections in the East, West and North Appalachia voting districts or precincts in the county of Wise.

No. 175. House bill to amend and re-enact section 3796 of the Code of Virginia, relating to conduct of meeting of corporations, etc.

No. 176. House bill to amend and re-enact section 4685 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to operation of slot machines.

No. 177. House bill to amend and re-enact section 291 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to the disability of a person holding office or employment under the United States government, to hold office in Virginia.

No. 178. House bill to amend and re-enact sections, 3613, 3615, 3616, 3625 and 3638 of the Code of Virginia, in regard to pilots.

No. 179. House bill to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 14 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish the State highway system, approved January 31, 1918, and to establish a perpetual memorial to Robert E. Lee, approved March 20, 1922.

No. 180. House bill to amend and re-enact section 3986 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to railroad grade crossings. No. 181. House bill to provide for working the roads in the county of Powhatan.

No. 182. House bill to amend and re-enact section 72 of chapter 474 of the Acts of 1926, approved March 25, 1926, entitled "An act to regulate the operation of vehicles on public highways; to govern and protect pedestrians while using such highways; to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this act and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder, to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

No. 183. House bill to amend and re-enact section 19-g of an act