Chap. 358.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to
amend and re-enact an act approved May 20, 1903, as heretofore amended,
entitled an act defining the duties and powers of the board of agriculture
and immigration, so as to prescribe the powers and duties of said board
and said commissioner, and to repeal an act approved February 29, 1888,
entitled an act to further define the duties and enlarge the powers of
the commissioner of agriculture, and an act approved March 65, 1888,
entitled an act to provide a commissioner of agriculture of Virginia, and
make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal sections 1785, 1786, 1787,
1788, 1789 and 1790 of the Code of Virginia, approved February 25, 1908.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
four and ten of an act approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and
three, as heretofore amended, entitled an act defining the powers and
duties of the board of agriculture and immigration, and providing for
the election of a commissioner of agriculture and immigration, approved
February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

84. The board shall annually elect a president and shall employ a
clerk, who may be a member of said board, to act as secretary, and such
secretary shall receive such compensation for his services as the board
may prescribe.

810. Powers and duties of the commissioner.—The said commissioner
shall be the executive officer of the board, and shall see that their orders
are carried out, and shal] have imrnediate direction of all of the work of
the department.

He shall, subject to the approval of the board, appoint the following
employees of the department, who shall be under his direction and con-
trol, and he shall have power to remove them, or any of them, at any
time he may think the interest of the department requires such removal,
and report to the next meeting of the board the cause for such removal:
provided, that the commissioner shal] have the sole appointment of the
stenographers herein named:

One fertilizer clerk, who shall be paid a salary of one thousand seven
hundred dollars per annum.

One chief clerk, who shall be paid a salary of one thousand seven
hundred dollars per annum.
One assistant clerk, who shall be paid a salary of one thousand five
hundred dollars per annum.

Two stenographers, both of whom shall be capable of doing clerical
work, who sltall be paid a salary of one thousand dollars each per annum.

One mailing clerk and messenger, who shall be paid a salary of nine
hundred dollars per annum, and who shall act as janitor.

One State chemist, who shall be paid a salary of two thousand dollars
per annum.

One assistant chemist, who shall be paid a salary of one thousand five
hundred dollars.

One second assistant chemist, who shall be paid a salary of one thou-
sand four hundred dollars per annum. ,

One third assistant chemist, who shall be paid a salary of one thov-
sand four hundred dollars per annum.

One fourth assistant chemist, who shall be paid a salary of one thou-
sand two hundred dollars per annum.

One laboratory janitor, who shall be paid the salary of seven hundred
and twenty dollars per annum, and who shall be appointed by the State
chemist. :

The commissioner, with the approval of the board of agriculture and
the governor, may appoint and fix salaries of such further employees as
may be necessary to meet the growing needs of the department.

All salaries and expenses of the department, and all expenditures,
shall be paid out of the funds in the treasury to the credit of the depart-
ment upon warrants drawn by the commissioner and countersigned by the
president of the board. ~