Chap. 2.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 319 of the Code of Virginia,
as oes by an act approved March 24, 1922, in relation to the governor’s
stalt.

Approved January 27, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion three hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia, as amendec
by an act approved March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred anc
eney=Ewo be further amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol.
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Section 319, The governor’s staff—On and after the first day of
February, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, the staff of the governor
and commander-in-chief shall consist of the adjutant-general of the
State and such additional aides as may be detailed by the governor
and commander-in-chief from the commissioned personnel of the
national guard of Virginia, the officers reserve corps or the naval re-
serve corps, or retired officers of the army or navy of the United
States, which detail shall operate for the time being as a commission
to each officer so detailed as aide-de-camp, but shall not add to the
actual grade of any such officer. No officer so detailed shall be com-
pellable to serve, nor shall any officer so detailed who consents to
serve, be entitled to, or receive any, compensation as such aide.
When any officer so detailed shall be called into active service of the
United States, the vacancy thereby created may be filled in like man-
ner by the governor and commander-in-chief. Officers so detailed
shall not be relieved from their ordinary duties, except when actually
on duty with the governor and commander-in-chief. No officer shall
be detailed under this section unless he be a qualified voter of the
State. In addition to the officers above detailed, the governor may
appoint and commission with the rank of colonel as a personal aide,
the clerk of the house of delegates and keepér of the rolls of Virginia.

2. An emergency is declared to exist and this act shall be in force
upon its passage. |