Chap. 185.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section nineteen of chapter seventy-seven of the
Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three),
concerning the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Agricultural aud
Mechanical College, and the Board of Curators of the Hampton Nor-
mal and Agricultural Institute, approved March fourteenth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four.

Approved Marth 27, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
nineteen of chapter seventy-seven of the Code of Virginia
(edition of eightebn hundred and seventy-three), be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§19. On the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the gover-
nor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall
appoint nine persons as visitors of said college, three of whom,
to be designated as first-class, shall continue in office until
the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-four;
three, to be designated second-class, shall continue in office
until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five; and the remaining three, to be designated as third-class,
shall continue in office until the first day of January, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-six ; and annually, on the first day
of January, the governor shall appoint three persons to fill
the vacancies so occasioned in the board of visitors, who shall
continue in office three years, or until the appointment and
acceptance of their successors; and if a vacancy shall occur
in the office of visitor, the governor shall fill the same for the
unexpired term thereof; and the persons so appointed shall
be distributed, as nearly equally as practicable, between the
four grand divisions of the state. ;
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.