the application given before the court, shall be reduced to writing and certified and returned by the clerk, with the application, to the auditor of public accounts, together with the certificate of the court: provided, that no attorney at law or physician shall receive any fee from such applicant for services rendered in proving said claims. 3. The auditor shall examine carefully each application and the certificates and evidence therewith filed, and when a proper case for public aid to the applicant is in his judgment made out he shall list, in the order of the receipt of the applications, the names of applicants entitled to relief, and report the same to the next regular session of the general assembly: provided, that in any case where the application and certificates accompanying it do not enable the auditor to decide upon the merits of the claim, he shall return the same to the applicant, with instructions to renew the same in accordance with the provisions of this act, and the renewed application, when filed within ninety days from the date of the return of the former application, shall have the same relative position on the list of applications as the one returned for renewal 4. The act approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to give aid to the citizens of Virginia wounded and maimed during the late war while serving as soldiers and marines, and all acts amendatory thereof, are hereby repealed. Sec. 382 c. Artificial limbs for citizens of the commonwealth who lost their limbs during the war and whose names are upon the pension roll.-1. The governor and auditor of public accounts, who are hereby constituted a board for the purpose, are directed to contract for and furnish to every citizen of this commonwealth who lost a leg or an arm in the late war an artificial leg or arm to supply the place of the one so lost: provided, that the applicant has heretofore furnished, or can hereafter furnish, a certificate from the court of his county or corporation showing that he is a citizen of this state, that he lost his leg or arm in the late war, and was a citizen of this state at the time of the loss of said leg or arm or in a military corps of the state: and provided, further, that he has not received an artificial leg or arm from any other state, the United States, or under the provisions of an act entitled an act to provide artificial legs or arms for citizens of this commonwealth who lost their legs or arms in the late war, passed January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, or an act approved November the first, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act to provide artificial legs or arms for citizens of the commonwealth who lost their legs or arms during the late war, or the act approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, amending and re-enacting the same: provided, further, that where the applicant has been heretofore furnished an artificial leg or arm under the provisions of either of the aforementioned acts and cannot use said artificial leg or arm, or that it is unfit for use, then such disabled soldier shall produce the certificate of the county court of his county reciting the facts as required as aforesaid; and further, that such soldier was so disabled as aforesaid to such an extent that an artificial leg or arm cannot be worn or used by him, and his name is upon the pension roll of the state, then it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts, on the production of such last named certificate, to pay such soldier an amount in money equivalent to the cost of such leg or arm if the same could be worn by him: provided, further, that in the furnishing of limbs or giving compensation in lieu thereof under the provisions of this act, preference shall be given to those applying who have not received the same under the pro 1893-4, p. 960. visions of former acts: provided, further, that the amount annually appropriated to any such citizen shall be credited upon the actual cost of said limb, so that the commonwealth shall only be required to pay the difference as aforesaid in purchasing said limb and in payment of the annual pension of any citizen under the laws now in force governing pensions, provided said citizen shall desire the said artificial leg or arm. 2. That the sum of four thousand dollars—if so much be required-is hereby appropriated to defray the charges and expenses attending the execution of the provisions of the foregoing section, to be paid by the treasurer, as the same may be required, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, upon the order of the auditor countersigned by the governor. 3. The board may make such rules and regulations as it may deem suitable to carry this act into effect, and shall contract for and furnish such patterns of artificial legs and arms as it may think best adapted to the purpose intended by this act: provided, that no Confederate soldier shall be entitled to the benefit of this act unless he is entitled to the benefits of the general law of this state providing for commutation to soldiers of the late war who have lost a leg or an arm. TITLE 12. PUBLIC DEBT. CHAPTER XXII. CONCERNING THE PUBLIC DEBT. 1891-2, p. 533. Sec. 398 a. To provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia not funded under the provisions of an act entitled an act to ascertain and declare Virginia's equitable share of the debt created before and actually existing at the time of the partition of her territory and resources, and to provide for the issuance of bonds covering the same and the regular and prompt payment of the interest thereon, approved February 14, 1882 (preamble omitted).-1. The commissioners of the sinking fund, a majority of whom may act, be, and they are hereby, empowered and directed to create "listable" engraved bonds, registered and coupon, to such an extent as may be necessary to issue nineteen million of dollars of bonds in lieu of the twenty-eight million dollars of outstanding obligations not funded under the act approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, herein before recited. 2. The said bonds shall be dated July first, eighteen hundred and ninetyone, and be payable at the office of the treasurer of the state or at such agency in the city of New York as may be designated by the state, on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and shall bear interest from date, payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July in each year, at the rate of two per centum per annum for the first ten years and three per centum per annum for the remaining ninety years; the said interest may be payable in Richmond, New York, and London, or at either place, as may be designated by the state: provided, that the state may at any time, and from time to time after July first, nineteen hundred and six, redeem at par any part of the principal with accrued interest. In case of such redemption before maturity, the bonds to be paid shall be determined by lot by said commissioners of the sinking fund, and notice of the bonds so selected to be paid shail be given by publication beginning at least ninety days prior to an interest-due date in a newspaper published in Richmond, Virginia, one in New York city, and one in London, England; and the interest from and after the next succeeding interest-due date shall cease upon the bonds so designated to be paid: provided, that no registered bonds shall be so redeemed while there are any coupon bonds outstanding. 3. The form of the bonds shall be substantially as follows, to-wit: Issued under act of assembly approved hundred and ninety-two. day of -, eighteen The commonwealth of Virginia acknowledges herself to be indebted to (in case of a coupon bond to the bearer, and in case of a registered bond inserting the name of a person or corporation or assigns) in the sum of dollars, which she promises to pay in lawful money of the United States at the office of the treasurer of the state, or at such agency in the city of New York as may be designated by the state, on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, with the option of payment at par with accrued interest before maturity at any time after July first, nineteen hundred and six, and interest, at the office of the treasurer of the state, or at the agencies of the state in New York city and London, England, or at either place, as may from time to time be designated by the state, in such lawful money aforesaid, at the rate of two per centum per annum for ten years from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and at the rate of three per centum per annum thereafter until paid, payable semi-annually on January first and July first in each year (according to the tenor of the annexed coupon bearing the engraved signature of the treasurer of the commonwealth in case of coupon bonds). And this obligation is hereby made exempt from any taxation by the said commonwealth of Virginia or any county or municipal corporation thereof. In testimony whereof witness the signature of the treasurer and the countersignature of the second auditor of the commonwealth of Virginia, hereto affixed according to law. [Seal.] Treasurer. 4. The form of coupon for coupon bonds shall be substantially as follows, to-wit: Coupon No. On the first day of the commonwealth of Virginia will pay to bearer dollars in lawful money of the United States, at the office of the treasurer of the state, or at the agencies of the state in New York city and London, England, or at either place, as may be designated by the state, the same being six months' interest on bond number dollars. -. Treasurer. Each coupon to be impressed on the back with its number, in order of maturity, from number one consecutively. 5. Said commissioners of the sinking fund are authorized to issue coupon bonds in denominations of five hundred and one thousand dollars each, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act: provided, that registered bonds may be issued of the denominations of one hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars; and they are authorized and directed to issue said bonds, registered or coupon, in exchange for the said outstanding obligations up to and including July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (exclusive of evidences of debt held by public institutions of the commonwealth as aforesaid and by the United States), as follows: A. Said bondholders' committee may at any time on or before the thir tieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, present to said commissioners for verification bonds and other evidences of debt, and coupons or other evidences of interest thereon, obligations of the state of Virginia held by said committee for exchange as aforesaid; and said commissioners shall determine whether the obligations so presented are genuine obligations of the state and whether the coupons or other evidences of interest represent interest accrued on such obligations (exclusive of evidences of debt held by public institutions of the commonwealth as aforesaid and by the United States). B. Such of the obligations so presented for verification as may be determined by said commissioners to conform to the requirements of paragraph A hereof, shall be sealed in convenient packages as the examination proceeds. Each of the packages shall be numbered, and upon each package shall be endorsed the amount and character of the obligations therein contained. Such endorsement on each package shall be signed by said commissioners or a majority thereof, and the package shall then be delivered to said committee or its agent. Said commissioners shall keep in a book to be provided for the purpose a record of the numbers of all such packages and of the amount and character of the obligations contained in each. Such obligations presented by said bondholders' committee as do not conform to the requirements of paragraph A hereof shall be returned to said committee, but said commissioners shall keep a record thereof in the book aforesaid. C. After said bondholders' committee shall have presented to said commissioners for verification bonds and other evidences of debt and coupons, or other evidences of interest thereon accrued on or before July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, obligations of the state of Virginia, all conforming to the requirements of paragraph A hereof, as determined by said commissioners, and amounting in the aggregate to not less than twenty-three million of dollars, after deducting one-third of the principal and interest of such obligations as were issued prior to the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and also deducting one-third of the principal and interest of such obligations as were issued under the act approved the thirtieth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as do include West Virginia's proportion, said bondholders' committee may at any time on or prior to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, present the same in bulk to said commissioners for surrender and exchange as herein provided. All coupons matured or to mature on coupon bonds after July first, eighteen hundred and ninetyone, or coupons of like class and amount, or the face value thereof in cash, shall be surrendered with such bonds, the said cash to be returned if proper coupons are subsequently tendered. And when the said bondholders' committee shall have presented for exchange the obligations aforesaid to an amount of twenty-three million of dollars or more, if the engraved bonds herein before authorized are not ready for exchange the said commissioners shall, upon application of said bondholders' committee, issue to said bondholders' committee a manuscript registered bond of the state of Virginia substantially of the form of the bond hereinbefore specified for the aggregate amount to which the said committee may be entitled for the obligations so presented under this act, the said bond to be exchangeable for the engraved bonds aforesaid of character and amount required by said committee as prescribed in this act, and interest in the mean time on said manuscript bond shall be paid as herein provided for on the engraved bonds. D. The said new bonds shall be issued to said bondholders' committee by the said commissioners in the following proportion, to-wit: Nineteen thousand dollars of the new bonds to be created under this act shall be issued for every twenty-eight thousand of old outstanding obligations (principal and interest to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one) as aforesaid surrendered by said bondholders' committee to the said commissioners after the deductions provided for in paragraph C of this section; and a proportionate amount of said new bonds shall be issued for smaller sums of said outstanding obligations so surrendered: provided, that no certificates issued on account of the proportion of West Virginia of the obligations of the state shall be funded under this act. When said bondholders' committee shall have surrendered and exchanged such obligations as aforesaid to the amount of at least twenty-three million dollars said committee may at any time thereafter up to and including the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, present to said commissioners for verification, surrender, and exchange additional obligations, principal and interest, as aforesaid; all coupons matured or to mature on coupon bonds after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, or coupons of like class and amount, or the face value thereof in cash, to be presented with such bonds, the cash, if paid, to be returned if proper coupons are subsequently tendered. After said commissioners shall have determined that said obligations conform to the requirements of paragraph A hereof, said commissioners shall accept the obligations so presented for surrender and exchange by said committee, and shall deliver to said committee in exchange therefor new bonds issued under the provisions of this act in the same proportion as is. set out in this paragraph of this section, after making the deductions provided for in paragraph C of this section. E. If on making the exchange provided for in this act said committee shall be found entitled to a fractional amount or amounts less than one hundred dollars in addition to the new bonds delivered to it, said commis-sioners of the sinking fund shall issue to the committee a certificate or certificates for such amount or amounts. Such fractional certificates shall be exchangeable for the bonds authorized by this act to be issued in sums of one hundred dollars, or any multiple thereof, and certificates of like character shall be issued for any fractional amount which may remain in making the exchange. 6. For all balances of the indebtedness constituting West Virginia's share of the old debt, principal and interest, in the settlement of Virginia's equitable share of the bonds authorized to be exchanged under this act, the said share having been heretofore determined by the commonwealth of Virginia, the said commissioners shall issue certificates substantially in the following form, viz. : Number The commonwealth of Virginia has this day discharged her equitable share of the (registered or coupon, as the case may be) bond for dollars, dated ance of day of dollars, with interest from leaving a bal. and No. holder of this certificate by the state of West Virginia without recourse upon this commonwealth. Done at the capitol of the state of Virginia this eighteen hundred and ninety-two. day of The certificates so issued under sections five and six of this act shall be recorded by the second auditor in a book kept for that purpose, giving the date and number of the transaction to which it refers, the amount of cer |