Chap. 296.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 21 of an act entitled an act
to reorganize the administration of the State government in order to secure
better service, and through co-ordination and consolidation, to promote econ-
omy and efficiency in the work of the government; to create and establish
or continue certain departments, divisions, offices, officers, and other agencies,
and to prescribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards,
commissions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved April
18, 1927, as heretofore amended. [H B 68]

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-one of an act entitled an act to reorganize the administration
of the State government in order to secure better service, and through
co-ordination and consolidation, to promote economy and efficiency in
the work of the government; to create and establish or continue certain
departments, divisions, offices, officers, and other agencies, and to pre-
scribe their powers and duties; to abolish certain offices, boards, com-
missions and other agencies, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in-
consistent with this act to the extent of such inconsistency, approved
April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 21. (a) All existing provisions of law in relation to the
State Board of Public Welfare and the Commissioner of Public Wel-
fare shall continue in force, except that the Commissioner of Public
Welfare shall be hereafter appointed by the Governor, subject to con-
firmation by the General Assembly if in session when appointment is
made, and if not in session, then at its next succeeding session. He
shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor for a term coincident
with that of each Governor making the appointment, or until his suc-

cessor shall be appointed and qualified. Vacancies shall be filled in the
same manner as original appointments are made. The Commissioner
of Public Welfare who may be in office when this section takes effect
shall continue therein until his successor shall be appointed and qualli-
fied. The Assistant Commissioner of Public Welfare shall be appoint-
ed by the Commissioner of Public Welfare subject to the approval ot
the State Board of Public Welfare, and shall serve at the pleasure of
the commissioner.

(b) Virginia industrial school boards——The board of directors
of the Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls, the Virginia
Industrial School for Boys, the Virginia Manual Labor School for
Colored Boys, and the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls are
hereby severally abolished. The said Virginia Home and Industrial
School for Girls and the said Virginia Industrial School for Boys shall
be hereafter governed, managed and controlled by a board of directors
composed of five members, appointed by the Governor, subject to con-
firmation by the Senate, which board shall be known as the Virginia
Industrial School Board, and which board is hereby vested with all the
powers and charged with all the duties and obligations heretofore vested
in, or conferred or imposed upon, the boards of the said Virginia Home
and Industrial School for Girls and the said Virginia Home and Indus-
trial School for Boys. The said Virginia Manual Labor School for
Colored Boys, and the said Virginia Industrial School for Colored
Girls shall be hereafter governed, managed and controlled by a board
of directors composed of five members, appointed by the Governor, sub-
ject to confirmation by the Senate, which board shall be known as the
Virginia Industrial School Board for Colored Children, and which
board is hereby vested with all the powers and charged with all the du-
ties and obligations heretofore vested in, or conferred or imposed upon,
the boards ot the Virginia Manual Labor School for Colored Boys, and
the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls. ‘The terms of the
members of the two boards herein created shall be four years; pro-
vided, that at the first appointment three of the members of each board
shall be appointed for a term to expire February first, nineteen hundred
and thirty, and two of the members shall be appointed for a term to
expire February first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two. ‘The Commis-
sioner of Public Welfare shall be ex-officio a member of both of the
two boards herein created.

The superintendents and parole officers of the several institutions
aforesaid are hereby vested with the powers of a sheriff for the pur-
pose of preserving order at their said institutions, respectively, and for
the conveyance of inmates to and from such institutions respectively.
The Governor and the Virginia Industrial School Board are hereby au-
thorized to make sale of the property of any one or more of the said
institutions, or any part of such property, and to locate such institution
or such institutions elsewhere in the State if in their judgment the
same shall be deemed advisable.

(c) Associated agencies—The general board of directors for the
control and management of the State hospitals for the insane, the sev-
eral special boards of directors for the State hospitals for the insane
and the Colony for the Epileptic and Feeble-minded, Virginia Commis-
sion for the Blind, and the State Prison Board are retained.