Chap. 151.—An ACT to provide for the erection of a fire-proof State office
building, and the assignment of offices therein. [H B 350]

Approved March 10, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That for
the purposes of this act, there is hereby created a board of building
commissioners. Said board shall consist of the governor (who shal
be chairman thereof) the lieutenant governor, the spéaker of the
house of delegates, one from among the membership of the senate,
to be appointed by the president of the senate, and one from among
the membership of the house of delegates to be appointed by the
speaker of the house of delegates. The said board of building com-
missioners shall have the powers and duties hereinafter prescribed
The ‘members thereof shall receive no compensation for serving
thereon, but shall be entitled to be retmbursed for their actual travel-
ing and hotel expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board:
They shall elect one of their number secretary.

2. The said board shall proceed with all reasonable dispatch,
under contract or contracts with the lowest responsible bidder or
bidders, to cause to be erected upon the ground of the capitol square,
in the southeastern corner thereof, or upon such site as may be
selected by said board, without any additional cost to the State, a
complete fire-proof State office building, according to the plans and
specifications to be submitted.to and approved by. said. board; pro-
vided, that the cost of said building shall not exceed the sum of seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The said board shall select a
professional architect, at a reasonable compensation, to advise with it
in all the details of said building and to superintend its erection.
But it is expressly provided that when the said building or any part
thereof is let to contract the said board shall first require the con-
tractor or contractors to enter into bond with sufficient penalty and
with approved security, conditioned for the faithful and efficient
performance of the contract on the part of said contractor or con-
tractors.

3. Said building shall contain sufficient accommodations for all
existing State departments, officers, boards and commissions, and
such as may be reasonably expected to be added during at least the
next decade due to the development and enlargement of the State’s
activities.

4. In order to obtain the money needed for the purposes of this
act, the governor is hereby authorized to dispose of the bonds of the
State of West Virginia received by this Commonwealth as a part of
its share of the proceeds of the Virginia-West Virginia debt settle-
ment, lately effected. Such disposition shall be made on the best
terms obtainable and the money paid into the State treasury to the
credit of a special fund hereby created to be known as the State office
building construction fund. There is hereby directed to be trans-
ferred to the said fund the money now in the lands of the State treas-
urer and the auditor of public-accounts received by the State from
the said Virginia-West Virginia debt settlement, including interest
accrued and accruing. In addition, there is hereby appropriated, out
of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
the said State office building construction fund, such sum as will con-
stitute the difference between the maximum amount authorized to be
expended under this act and the amounts above provided for the said
State office building construction fund. But nothing in this section
contained shall be construed as authorizing the expenditure of such
maximum unless it be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.

5. All moneys paid out of the State office building construction
fund shall be paid by the treasurer of Virginia on warrants of the
auditor of public accounts issued on certificates signed by the chair-
man and countersigned by the secretary of the board of building com-
missioners.

6. After the said building shall have been completed, offices
therein shall be assigned by the governor and register of the land
fhce and superintendent of grounds and buildings to all or any
umber of the said State departments, officers, boards and commis-
ions. .

Chap. 152—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2769 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1920. [H B 137]

Approved March 10, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
wenty-seven hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as
mended by an act approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and
‘wenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2769. Compensation of supervisors——Each member of the
board of supervisors shall be allowed, and paid out of the county
levy, a compensation for his services in attending the meetings of the
board and in discharging such other duties as may be imposed upon
him by law at a rate of not exceeding six dollars per diem for the
time he shall be actually so employed, and five cents for each mile
of travel in going to and returning from the place of meeting of said
board, but no per diem allowance shall be made for any time occupied
in traveling where mileage is allowed therefor, and only one mileage
shall be allowed for any one term of meeting of such board. No
supervisor shall draw pay for more than eighteen days in counties of
ten thousand population and less, except that supervisors in the
county of Dickenson may draw pay for not more than twenty-five
days: nor’shall he draw pay for more than twenty-five days in coun-
ties of more than ‘ten thousand and less than thirty thousand popula-
tion, nor shall he draw pay for more than thirty .days in counties of
thirty thousand population and not over forty thousand, and counties
of over forty thousand population he shall draw pay for not more
than forty days in any one year; provided, that the provisions of
this section shall not prevent supervisors in the counties which have
special road laws from receiving additional compensation for services
in connection with road work done under said special road laws now
existing, or as hereafter amended, if such compensation be allowed
in such special road law. But nothing in this act shall allow a member
of the board of supervisors to draw pay on the same day for services
as supervisor and as inspector or commissioner of roads or con-
struction of bridges. The supervisors of Henrico and Alexandria
counties, however, with the consent of the circuit court of the said
county, may receive as much as three hundred dollars each per annum,
and the supervisors of the counties of Chesterfield and Henry, with
the consent of the circuit court of said county, may receive as
much as two hundred dollars each per annum, and mileage as above
provided; and the supervisors of the county of Rockingham, with
the consent of the circuit court of said county, may receive as
much as one hundred and seventy-five dollars each per annum and
mileage as above provided, and the supervisors of the county of Shen-
andoah, with the consent of the circuit court of the said county,
may receive as much as one hundred and seventy-five dollars each
per annum, and mileage as above provided. Furthermore, each mem-
ber of the board. of supervisors of Stafford, King George, Isle of
Wight, Nansemond, Prince Edward, Prince William, Northampton,
James City, New Kent, Charles City, York, Warwick, Hanover,
Gloucester, Scott, Russell, Surry and Prince Géorge and Craig coun-
ties may be paid as compensation for his services in the supervision
of the opening and repair of the public roads or construction and
repair of bridges of said counties not exceeding five dollars per diem
for the time he shall be necessarily so employed; provided, that the
supervisors of Culpeper county may receive three dollars per day
when so engaged; but no supervisor shall receive for such services
compensation to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum in
addition to the amount allowed by law for other services. In the
county of Augusta any supervisor may, with the consent of the circuit
court, be paid as compensation for his services as assistant to the
superintendent of roads in the supervision or construction and repair
of public roads or bridges, or for any special duties imposed upon
him by the board of supervisors, at the rate of four dollars per diem
for the time actually engaged, with mileage, as provided for regular
service, but this extra compensation shall not exceed the sum of
three hundred dollars per year for any one supervisor, and the super-
visors of the county of Norfolk may receive an amount not exceed-
ing five hundred dollars each per annum and* mileage as herein
provided.

Any supervisor of Orange county may act as road commissioner
for his district and shall be paid for his services not exceeding one
dollar and fifty cents per day, but the entire compensation shall not
exceed three hundred dollars per annum and this-shall apply only to
districts having a road fund which does not exceed two thousand
dollars. Each supervisor of the counties of Buchanan, Mecklenburg
and Sussex may in addition to mileage receive the sum of eight dollars
per day during the time the board of said counties are in actual
session, and each supervisor of Pittsylvania county may act as road
commissioner for his magisterial district in supervising road con-
struction and maintenance and may receive as such six dollars per
day for not exceeding fifty days in any one year, and for services as
supervisor while the board is in actual session, he shall receive six
dollars per day for not exceeding fifteen days for any one year and
mileage as herein provided.