Chap. 188.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1300 and
1311 of the code of Virginia in relation to railroad commissioner,
bis duties, and the salary of himself and clerk.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections thirteen hundred and thirteen hundred and
eleven of the code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

$1300. Shall notify company of violation of law; if
continued to apply for injunction; to post copies of this
section in depots.—Whenever in the judgment of the said
commissioner upon complaint made to him or from his

own knowledge, it shall appear that any such company
has violated any laws or neglected in any respect or par-
ticular to comply with the terms of its charter, or with
the provisions of any of the laws of the commonwealth,
especially in regard to the connections with other rail-
roads, the rates of toll and the time schedule, he shall
give notice thereof, in writing, to such company or the
person operating the same; and if the violation or neglect
be continued after such notice, the commissioner shal]
make report of the facts to the board of public works,
and such board shall, if upon inquiry into such facts it
deems it proper or necessary, direct the said commissioner
to make application by a bill in equity for an injunction
to restrain the company or person complained of from
further continuing to violate the law or the terms of its
charter. And it shall be the duty of the commissioner
to require every such company or person operating the
same to post and keep posted conspicuously in every pas-
senger and freight depot of the company a copy of this
section, printed in large type on card board, on which shall
also be stated the name of the commissioner and the loca-
tion of his office, and to that end the commissioner shal]
furnish a sufficient number of such copies.

§1311. Salary of commissioner and his clerk ; his office ;
employment of experts. Provision for expenses.—The
annual salary of the said commissioner shall be two thou-
sand five hundred dollars, and of his clerk twelve hun-
dred dollars, payable quarterly by the auditor of public
accounts, in the manner hereinafter provided. The com-
missioner shall be provided with an office in the capitol,
or in some other suitable place in the city of Richmond,
in which his records shall be kept. He may employ and
take with him experts or other agents whose services he
may deem to be temporarily of importance; and he may
draw upon the auditor of public accounts for a sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars annually, to be expended
by him in the payment of such experts or agents for their
services, and in procuring necessary books, maps, statis-
tics, and stationery, and in defraying expenses incidental
and necessary to the discharge of the duties of his office.
A statement of such expenses shall accompany his annual
report.

2. This act shall be in force from and after the first day
of April, eighteen hundred and ninety.