Chap. 244.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled
an act to provide for the reorganization of the institutions for the deaf and dumb
and blind, and to repeal chapter 74 of the code of Virginia, and to repeal chap-
ter 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, Va.,
approved May 14, 1887, approved March 4, 1896.

Approved February 8, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two 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 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 May fourteen, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. The institution established for the education of the deaf and
dumb and the blind by an act of March thirty-one, eighteen hundred
and thirty-eight, shall be continued, and the visitors thereof shall be a
corporation by the name of the Virginia school for the deaf and the
blind, and be vested with all the rights and powers now vested in the
corporation created by the said act, and be subject to the control of the
general assembly.

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