Chap. 583.—An ACT looking to the establishment of a State female normal school
with industrial training.

Approved January 11, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the speaker
of the house of delegates shall appoint five members of the house of
delegates and the president of the senate shall appoint five members of
the senate, one member of the house of delegates and one member of the
senate on said special joint commission to be appointed from each of the
grand divisions of the State; and they be, and are hereby, created and ap-
pointed a special joint commission, and are hereby authorized and di-
rected to investigate and to report to the general assembly all the facts,
as far as they may be able to ascertain them, in connection with the es-
tablishment and location of another female normal school, and they are
specially directed to report the names of such towns and cities as make
special propositions, giving in detail, as far as practicable, the nature of
the gifts, donations of grounds and buildings, bonds, or other valuables,
and the natural advantages and drainage of the grounds, buildings, and
sites, hygiene of the vicinity, the water and lighting facilities, the rail-
way and steamboat connections, and the approximate and relative cost
of living. The said commission is hereby empowered to visit, to view,
and to investigate the proposed gifts, donations, and sites, and to report
on the same as above directed; and the auditor of public accounts is
hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the treasury for the neces-
sary expenses of said special joint commission, upon the certificates
signed by the chairman of said commission and attested by its clerk,
and there shall be included in said’ expense a per diem of four dollars
for each member of said commission for each day he may be actually en-
gaged with the commission in making this investigation: provided, how-
ever, that the per diem paid to any member of the commission shal] not
exceed fifty dollars.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.