Chap. 121.—An ACT to abolish the offices of dairy and food commissioner and
deputy dairy and food commissioner, including the office of superinteadent
of weights and measures, and to transfer their powers and duties to the
commissioner of agriculture and immigration. {S B 142)

Approved March 9, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
ffices of dairy and food commissioner and deputy dairy and food com-
nissioner, including the office of superintendent of weights and meas-
res, be, and they are, hereby severally abolished.

2. All the powers conferred and all the duties imposed by law
ipen the dairy and food commissioner, the deputy dairy and food
commissioner, and the superintendent of weights and measures, shal]
hereafter be exercised or performed by the commissioner of agricul-
ture and immigration, without additional compensation, under the
direction of the board of agriculture and immigration.

3. The unexpended balance of any appropriation made to the
dairy and food division, or to the dairy and food commissioner, or to
the superintendent of weights and measures, is hereby transferred to
the commissioner of agriculture and immigration and may be expended
by him under the direction of the board of agriculture and immigra-
tion, for the purposes named in the appropriation, but as far as nec-
essary he shall use the existing force in performing the additional
duties imposed and exercising the additional powers conferred by this
act.

4. This act shall be in force on and after July first, nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six.