CHAP. 72.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1573, Code of Virginia
of 1904, providing for the officers of the institute to be part of the
militia, and commissioned.

Approved March 4, 1912.

1. se it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen hundred and seventy-three, Code of Virginia of
nineteen hundred and four, the same being a section providing
for officers of the institute to be a part of the militia, and com-
missioned, be amended so as to read as follows:

§1573. Officers of institute to be officers of militia, and to
hold commissions therein.—The officers of the Virginia mili-
tary institute shall be commissioned officers of the Virginia vol-
unteers, subject to orders of the governor and the same rules
and regulations as to discipline provided for other commis-
sioned officers of the military organization of the State, and the
governor is authorized and directed to issue commissions to the
professors, assisant professors, and other officers of the insti-
tution, according to the rank prescribed by the Virginia mili-
tary institute. Such commissions shall not entitle any person
holding the same to any pay or emolument by reason thereof un-
less he be assigned to duty by order of the governor with the
Virginia volunteers, and in such event the rank of such officer
shall be relatively inferior to that of all other officers of the
same grade in the Virginia volunteers.