CHAP. 318.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to
amend and re-enact sections 4 and 10 of an act to amend and re-enact
an act approved May 20, 19038, as heretofore amended, entitled an act
defining the duties and powers of the board of agriculture and immi-
gration, 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 5,
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, ap-
proved February 25, 1908.

Approved March 14th, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections four and ten of an act approved March seventeenth, nine-
teen hundred and ten, amending sections four and ten of an act
approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and three, as hereto-
fore 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, ap-
proved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and eight, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§4. 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.

§10. 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 shall have immediate
direction of all of the work of the department.
He shall, subject to the approval of the board, appoint the
following employes of the department, who shall be under his
direction and control, 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 meet-
ing of the board the cause for such removal; provided, that the
commissioner shall have the sole appointment of the stenog-
raphers herein named:

One fertilizer clerk, who shall be paid a salary of one thou-
and 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 thous-
and five hundred dollars per annum.

Two stenographers, both of whom shall be capable of doing
clerical work, who shall 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
two hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

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

One second assistant chemist, who shall be paid a salary of
one thousand six hundred dollars per annum.

One third assistant chemist, who shall be paid a salary of
one thousand six hundred dollars per annum.

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

One laboratory janitor, who shall be paid a salary of eight
hundred and forty dollars per annum, and who shall be ap-
pointed by the State chemist.

The commissioner, with the approval of the board of agricul-
ture and the governor, may appoint and fix salaries of such fur-
ther emploves as may be necessary to meet the growing needs of
the department.

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