Chap. 416.—An ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission on
simplification of State government; to prescribe the powers and duties
of the. commission, and to make an appropriation to enable it to ce
the work assigned to it. [S B 196]

Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there
shall be appointed a commission on simplification and economy of
State and local government, which commission shall have powers
and duties hereinafter prescribed.

2. The said commission shall consist of nine members to be
appointed as follows: Two by the president of the senate, from
among the membership of the senate; three by the speaker of the
house of delegates, from among the membership of the house, and
four by the governor, to be chosen from the qualified voters of the
State. The members of the commission shall name one of their
number chairman and another secretary.

3. The commission aforesaid shall investigate and study in detail
the organization of the government of Virginia, State and local, also
all bureaus, departments and institutions and on the basis of such
investigation and study, and with due regard to the accepted princi-
ples of business and political science, make recommendations to the
general assembly at its session of nineteen hundred and twenty-four.
Such recommendations shall include a plan for the re-organization
and simplification of all of the component parts of the government,
State and local, which, in the opinion of the commission, are in need
thereof, including such co-operation as may seem expedient, and such
elimination of unnecessary duplication in State governmental agencies
both State and local as may be revealed by the investigation and study
herein mentioned. One recommendation shall be confined to such
improvements as can, be effected without constitutional amendments,
and the other shall include such improvements as the commission may
see fit to recommend, conditioned upon necessary constitutional
changes, and the commission shall make such other recommendations
deemed necessary to carry out the object of this bill.

4. The members of the commission aforesaid shall receive as
compensation for serving thereon the sum of six dollars per diem
and actual traveling and hotel expenses severally incurred in attend-
ing meetings of the commission. For the purpose aforesaid, and to
enable the commission to employ necessary expert and clerical help,
there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand dollars. Disburse-
ments authorized by this act shall be paid by the treasurer of Virginia
on warrants of the auditor of public accounts issued om certificate
signed by the chairman of the commission and countersigned by its
secretary. The commission shall with their report submit necessary
bills, and constitutional amendments, and copies of the report of the
commission shall be mailed members of the general assembly for
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, by December first, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-three.