Chap. 119.—An ACT to amend section 807 of the Code of Virginia. [S B 115}
Approved March 7, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and seven of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 807. Appointment of visitors——There shall be ten visitors,
one of whom shall be the superintendent of public instruction, three of
whom shall be from the grand division in which the university is situated,
and two from each of the other three grand divisions of the State. The
visitors now in office are continued therein until their respective terms
of office expire, to-wit; such four of them as were designated by the gov-
ernor at the time of their appointment, until the twenty-ninth day of
February, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and the other five until
the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.
Within the sixty days preceding the day on which the terms of office re-
spectively of the several members of the board will expire by limitation
as aforesaid, the governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, shall
appoint, to fill the vacancies so to be occasioned, persons whose terms
of office shall be for four years from that day. And thereafter, within
sixty days preceding the day on which the terms of office respectively of
the members shall expire by limitation as aforesaid, the governor, by
and with the consent of the Senate, shall appoint, to fill the vacancies
so to be occasioned, persons whose terms of office shall be for four years
from the day on which the terms of their immediate predecessors ex-
pired. |

Vacancies caused otherwise than by the expiration of the term of
office shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired term by appoint-
ment which shall be subject to ratification or rejection by the Senate at
the next session of the general assembly. The members of the board
shall always be apportioned among the several grand divisions of the
State as hereinbefore provided, and shall in all cases continue to dis-
charge the duties of their office after their terms have expired until their
successors have been appointed and qualified.

Beginning with the visitors who shall be named for the term begin-
ning on the twenty-eighth day of February, in the year nineteen hundred
and twenty-six, and biennially thereafter, the governor shall appoint at
least one visitor in the years in which he has four visitors to appoint, and
two visitors in the years in which he has five visitors to appoint, from a
list of not less than eight persons, qualified to fill the office of visitor,
two of whom shall be from each of the grand divisions of the State, which
list shall be submitted to him, whether he shall have taken office or not,
by the general alumni association of the university of Virginia not
later than the first day of December of the year preceding that in which
the terms of said visitors are,to begin; and in filling vacancies the gov-
ernor shall likewise make appointments from the list last submitted to
him when it is necessary to do so in order to have at least three visitors
who shall be nominees of the general alumni association as aforesaid.

If the said general alumni association of the university of Virginia
shall in any such year fail to submit such a list in accordance with the
provisions hereof, the appointments of visitors whose terms would com-
mence in the year next succeeding the date on or before which said list
should have been submitted, shall be made just as if said association had
not been empowered to submit such a list.