Chap. 44.—An ACT to provide for the appointment of Capitol Police
and certain other employces about the Public Buildings and Grounds.

In force January 28, 1884.

Whereas, since the disbanding of the pubic guard of the
state, various employees of the capitol and grounds have been
appointed from time to time by the superintendent of public
buildings and the register of the land office, to whom the duties
of the superintendent of public buildings were transferred by
act of assembly, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, without express authority of law;
now therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly ot Virginia, That
the register of the land office shall appoint, upon the passage
of this act, and hereafter upon his qualification to office for
the period of two years, or until their successors are appointed
and qualify, the following officers, to-wit: seven policemen,
each at a salary of sixty-five dollars per month; one engi-
neer, at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum; one
janitor, at a salary of thirty dollars per month; and one night
guard, upon the recommendation of the first and second
auditor and treasurer, at a salary of sixty dollars per month.
The term of the officers first appointed under this act shall
begin on the second day of January, eighteen hundred and
eighty-four, and their pay shall commence from the time of
their qualification to office.
2. The said register shall make such rules for the govern-
ment of the above name employees, as to him may scem best
for the proper discipline of the force hereby authorized, and
tor the care and protection of the public property in his
charge, and shall have the power to remove any of the said
force during their term of’ office; and shall also require the
sald policemen to appear, while on duty, in uniform, to be
prescribed by him.

3. <All acts and parts of acts, in so far as they conflict with
this act, are hereby repealed. .

4. This act shall be in force from its passaye.