Chap. 454.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 288 and 299 of the Code of
Virginia. in relation to superintendent of the public buildings, ete., and to re-
peal an act approved January 30, 1900, entitled “an act to prescribe the duties
of the register of the land oflice and fix his salary.”

Approved December 14, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
two hundred and eighty-cight and two hundred and ninety-nine of the
Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 288. Register of land office shall be superintendent of grounds and
uildings:; duties of —The re gister of the land office shall be superintend-
ent of grounds and public buildings, and as such shall have under his care
the capitol, the State courthouse or library building, the public grounds.
and all other public property at the seat of government not placed in the
charge of others, and shall protect the same from depredation and injury:
provided, that the old bell-house now used as a State arsenal shall be un-
der the control of the adjutant-general as long as it is used as such.

The superintendent of grounds and buildings shall be subject to the
control-and direction of the governor, and shall. with the approval of the
governor, assign vacant rooms in the public buildings to such public
officers as the public service may require. He shall discharge and _per-
form such other duties as may be prescribed by law, and shall receive an
annual salary, which shall be compensation for all his services. The fees
of his office allowed by law shall be accounted for and paid into the treas-
ury of the State. He shall have the appointment and control of the six
capitol policemen provided by law, whose powers and duties are sct forth
in an act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety
(one of whom shall be clerk to the register of the land office), and of the
following emplovees: A conductor for the elevator at the State library
building: a fireman for the elevator at the capitol, who shall be under the
control and supervision of the engineer of the library building; a janitor
of the capitol building; an engineer at the library building, who shall be
charged with the duties prescribed in scction two hundred and ninety-
six of the Code of Virginia, and with the duly of supervising and keeping
in order the boilers and engines in the capitol and in the library building;
a night watchman, a policeman, a janitor, and a doorkceper at the library
building, and a janitor of the library offices.

§ 299. Control of capitol square—He shall have control of the capitol
square, subject to the orders and approval of the governor, and the ex-
pense of keeping the same in order shall be paid by him out of the fund
appropriated for the contingent expenses of his office.

2. Be it further enacted, That an act approved January thirtieth. nine-
teen hundred, entitled “an act io prescribe the duties of the register of the
land office and fix his salary,” be, and. the same is hereby, repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage,