CHAPTER 376

An Act to continue the Commission on the Woodrow Wilson Centennial
Celebration and define its powers and duties.
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Approved April 2, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

§ 1. The commission created by House Joint Resolution No. 24 of
the 1952 regular session of the General Assembly of Virginia to plan a
centennial celebration in 1956 of the birth of Woodrow Wilson is hereby
continued. The Commission shall be composed of the following persons:
two members of the House of Delegates appointed by the Speaker of the
House; one member of the Senate of Virginia appointed by the President
of the ‘Senate; and nine persons appointed by the Governor, two of whom
shall be Senators of the United States from the State of Virginia, one of
whom shall be the United States representative of the District of Virginia
in which Woodrow Wilson was born, one of whom shall be an official of
the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, one of whom shall be an official of the
city of Staunton, one of whom ‘shall be an official of the Chamber of
Commerce of the city of Staunton or the city of Waynesboro, one of whom
shall be an official of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, and one
of whom shall be a representative of the State Department of Conserva-
tion and Development.

§ 2. The Commission is authorized to make detailed plans for the
appropriate celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Woodrow Wilson in Staunton, Virginia, in eighteen hundred fifty-six,
along the general lines proposed in the report submitted by the Commis-
sion to this session of the General Assembly. To this end, the Commission
is authorized to employ such persons as may be necessary or desirable to
assist it in the performance of its functions; to enter into agreements with
other individuals and agencies, both within and without this State, for
the coordination of commemorative exercises and activities; to expend for
the purposes aforesaid funds appropriated to it in the general appro-
priation act for the biennium beginning July one, nineteen hundred fifty-
four; and to accept and expend any gifts, grants or donations which may
be made to it for these purposes.

§ 3. Members of the Commission shall be entitled to be reimbursed
their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties and shall
be paid a per diem of ten dollars for each day spent in attendance on
meetings or in the performance of other duties as members of the
Commission.

§ 4. The Commission shall make a report to the Governor and the
General Assembly of Virginia concerning its activities not later than
December one, nineteen hundred fifty-five.