Chap. 189.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to
assign offices to the several departments and officers of the State gov-
ernment in the several public buildings owned by the State, approved
March 14, 1906.”

Approved March 13, 1912.

1. Be it enacted bv the general assembly of Virginia, That
the several departments and officers of the State government
hereinafter mentioned shall be, and are hereby, assigned offices
in the publie buildings owned by the State in the following man-
ner—that Is to say:

First. To the governor and his secretaries there shall be
assigned the rooms they now occupy in the capitol building in
the southeastern end of said building opening on the rotunda
gallery floor.

Second. To the secretary of the commonwealth there shall
be assigned the rooms now occupied by him in the southwestern
end of the capitol on the same floor as the rooms of the governor.

Third. To the corporation commission there shall be as-
signed the rooms in the northern end of the capitol on the same
floor with the governor and the secretary of the commonwealth.

Fourth. To the department of education and public instruc-
tion there shall be assigned the southern half of the basement
to the house wing, except that the vault therein shall be retained
by and under the control of the clerk of the house of delegates,
and said denartment shall have the right to occupy the large
room to the left of said main entrance, or any one of the com-
mittee rooms, for holding its meetings, either regular or called.

Fifth. The large room to the left of the main entrance of
the capitol building in the southwestern end of said building
shall be assigned, in addition to its use by the department of
education as aforesaid, to the corporation commission for use
when occasion requires as a court-room, and may be used by the
general assembly for hearings before joint committees, for cau-
cuses, and other purposes; and when not so used, the governor
may, In his discretion, permit it to be used for other purposes.

Sixth. To the department of agriculture there shall be as-
signed the large hall with its galleries in the north end of the
capitol, which was formerly used by the house of delegates
and the three offices Immediately below said hall in the north-
eastern end of the basement, which have been connected with
said hall by a spiral stairway.

Seventh. The public printer shall have assigned to him the
two rooms in the northwestern end of the basement.

Eighth. There shall be assigned to the register of the land
office the suite of rooms always heretofore occupied by him in
the southern and western end of the basement.

Ninth. To the commissioner of labor there shall be assigned
the two rooms at the southeastern end of the basement, but when
not occupied by him, they may be used by the superintendent of
public instruction.

Tenth. The two rooms in the basement immediately north of
the reoms assigned to the commissioner of labor in the southern
and eastern end of the basement are hereby assigned to the
library board of the Virginia State library for the use of the
traveling library department during the vacation of the general
assembly.

KJeventh. The rooms under the senate wing of the capitol
shall be set apart as committee rooms for the assembly.

Twelfth. The two rooms in the northern part of the basement
to the house wing shall be set apart as committee rooms,
except that the northern room shall be set apart as the enrolling
room during the session of the general assembly and for ten
davs preceding and succeeding, and during which time, it shall
be under the control of the clerk of the house of delegates.

Thirteenth. The rooms to the right of the main entrance to
the capitol building in the southeastern end of the building on
tho rotunda floor shall be assigned to the clerk of the house
of delegates.

Fourteenth. The clerk of the senate shall have for his use
the rooms now occupied by him on the same floor with the senate,
in the senate wing.

Fifteenth. To the supreme court of appeals there shall be
assigned, in addition to the rooms now occupied by the court in
the library building, the rooms in that building immediately
across the hall-way from the rooms now used by the court for
the laiv library, being the rooms now occupied by the department
of agriculture.

Sixteenth. The library board of the Virginia state library
shall have assigned to it for the use of the Virginia state library
the small room on the third floor of the library building, now
occupied as a storage room by the law Ibrary.

2. Be it further enacted that until the first day of January,
nineteen hundred and fourteen, or until an extra session of the
general assembly, if sooner called, the commissioner of insur-
ance may occupy the three rooms to the right of the entrance to
the basement under the senate wing; tne commissioner of labor,
the first two rooms to the left of the entrance to the basement
under the senate wing; the superintendent of public instruction,
the third room to the left of the entrance to the basement, under
the senate wing; and the register of the land office, the two rooms
in the northern part of the basement to the house wing, except
as provided in twelfth section. The officers last named, and each
of them shall vacate the said rooms betore the next meeting of
the general assembly.

3. Nothing in this act shall permit the use of the stairway
leading to the hall of the house of delegates, as an office or
storage department and the register of the land oflice is directed
to remove the wooden partitions and so forth heretofore set up
without authority of law.