Chap. 166.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 979, 982 and 983 of the Code

of Virginia, relating to the Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind

Children, so as to abolish the board of visitors of said school and place the same

inder the control, management and supervision of the State Board of Educa-

ion, and to repeal Section 984 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same

subject. [H B 144}
Approved March 9, 1940

. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
ons nine hundred and seventy-nine, nine hundred and eighty-
and nine hundred and eighty-three of the Code of Virginia, be
nded and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

ection 979. The Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and
d Children shall be, and is hereby continued.

ection 982. The Board of Visitors of the Virginia State School
Colored Deaf and Blind Children is hereby abolished, and all
rights, powers, authority and duties heretofore conferred and
sed by law upon the said board of visitors are hereby transferred
vested in, and imposed upon the State Board of Education as
ted and established by law.

ection 983. The Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and
1 Children.shall in all things and at all times be subject to the
rol of the General Assembly of Virginia and it shall be the duty
1e State Board of Education to make an annual report to the
ral Assembly and make such other reports as may be provided
ww. Each fiscal year of said institution shall end on the thirtieth
of June, to which time the accounts of the institution shall be
2; and the State Board of Education shall annually, on the first
of October, deliver to the Governor, for transmission to the
ral Assembly, its report showing the condition of the school,
its receipts and disbursements for the said fiscal year.

Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia,
section nine hundred and eighty-four of the Code of Virginia
nd it is hereby, repealed.

This act shall take effect on, and be in force and effect on and
, July first, nineteen hundred and forty.