Chap. 336.—An ACT to create a commission to represent the State in arranging
and carrying out a program for the celebration of the bicentennial of the
birth of George Washington, and to define the powers and duties of the
commission. [H B 222]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That a
State commission of six members is hereby created for the purposes
of this act. The governor, president of the senate and the speaker
and the clerk of the house of delegates shall be members thereof.
The other two members shall be appointed as follows: One by the
president of the senate and the other by the speaker of the house of
delegates. A vacancy occuring at any time from any cause in the
appointive membership of the commission shall be filled by appoint-
ment by the officer who made the original appointment. The governor
shall be chairman of the commission and the clerk of the house of
delegates shall be secretary thereof. The members shall receive no
compensation for their services. The existence of the commission
shall terminate December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-
two.

2. The commission shall represent this State in formulating and
carrying out a program for the celebration in the year nineteen
hundred and thirty-two of the bi-centennial of the birth of George
Washington, and to that end shall confer and act with any com-
mission or commissions created or to be created for the purposes of
such celebration by act of Congress and by any of the States, and
with the civic national committee established by the George Washing-
ton Bi-Centennial Committee, and with other civic bodies in so far
as their activities relate to such celebration. The commission shall
make a report to the general assembly at its session of nineteen hun-
dred and thirty and shall include such recommendations as it may
deem advisable or essential in the preparation and carrying out of a
fitting and adequate plan for such celebration.