Chap. 199.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 7th section of an act en-
titled an act to provide for the reorganization of the institution for the
deaf and dumb and blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the code of Virginia,
and to repeal chapter 226 of the acts of assembly, entitled an act to regulate
the appointment of the board of directors of the deaf, dumb, and blind
institute, at Staunton, Virginia, approved May 14, 1887, approved March
4, 1896, as amended by chapter 244 of acts of assembly 1897-98, approved
February 8, 1898.

Approved January 27, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seven of an act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
entitled an act to provide for the reorganization of the institution for the
deaf and dumb and blind, and to repeal chapter seventy-four of the code
of Virginia, and to repeal chapter two hundred and ‘twenty- -six of the
acts of assembly, entitled an act to regulate the appointment of the board
of directors of the deaf, dumb, and blind institute at Staunton, Virginia.
approved Mav fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, approved
March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as amended by chapter
wo hundred and forty-four of acts of assembly, eighteen hundred and
inety-seven and ninety-eight, approved February eighth, eighteen hun-
reo and ninety-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
yllows:

§ 7. The superintendent, professors, and all other officers of the inst1-
ition shall be elected on the ———— day of March, nineteen hundred,
nd every two years thereafter by the board of visitors, and shall be
lected with reference to fitness, sobriety, literary and business qualifi-
itions. The board of visitors may remove at any time the superinten-
2nt, professors, and all other officers of the institution, causing to be
itered upon the records of the board the order of removal, together
ith the cause of the removal.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.