Chap. 76.—An ACT to create and provide for a building committee
for the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, and to prescribe
the duties thereof.

) Approved February 5, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the governor, by and with the consent of the senate, shall ap-
point three suitable citizens of the commonwealth, who shall
be known as the building committee of the Virginia Normal
and Collegiate Institute, and as such shall be empowered to
control and disburse the funds belonging or appropriated to
said institute, and in all respects to control and superintend the
erection of the buildings of said institute.

2. It shall be the duty of said board to organize by the elec-
tion of a chairman, secretary and treasurer, from their own
number. They shall keep a written record of all their transac-
tions, which shall be laid before the general assembly at its next
session, and shall make quarterly reports to the board of edu-
cation. Any two of said committee may transact business, but
no order requiring the outlay of money shall be valid without
the concurrence of the whole committee. They shall receive
for their services the actual expenses incurred when engaged
in and about their duties. |

3. The said building committee may, in their discretion, em-
ploy a superintendent, who shall, under their direction, see
that the contractors for the various kinds of work on said build-
ing are faithfully performing their contracts, or, in the event
any one of said contractors fails in the performance of his con-
tract, then to buy material, employ workmen, and forward the
erection and completion of said building as rapidly as may be.
Said superintendent may be removed by the,committee at their
pleasure, and another appointed in his place; and they shall
require of said superintendent bond and security for the faith-
ful discharge of his duties, in such penalty as they may deem
proper.

4. The said building committee are authorized and em-
powered to order and direct their treasurer to take charge of
any money heretofore appropriated for the erection of the
buildings of said institute which may remain unexpended, and
to draw, by order on the auditor of public accounts, the money
appropriated at this session, or hereafter, to said institute for
building purposes, in bi-monthly instalments of five thousand
dollars each, until the appropriation shall be exhausted: pro-
vided, that said committee shall only order the withdrawal of
said money from the public treasury as the same may be needed
for carrying out the provisions of this act. The said building
committee shall be subject to the control and supervision of the
board of education, and may be removed by it, and another be
appointed by it in its stead.

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