Chap. 509.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act
to create the Virginia commission for the blind, to define its duties, and to
make appropriation for its maintenance, approved March 23, 1922; to abolish

-the board of visitors of the Virginia school for the blind, created by an act
approved March 21, 1924, and to confer upon the Virginia commission for
the blind all the powers and to impose upon it all the duties of such board
of visitors. [H B 248]

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to create the Virginia commission for the
blind, to define its duties and to make appropriations for its main-
tenance, approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. On and after July first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
six, the Virginia commission for the blind shall consist of seven mem-
bers who shall be appointed by the governor. The first appointments
hereunder shall be for terms as follows: One member for a term of
one vear, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, one
for five vears, one for six years, and one for seven years. Upon the
expiration of the term of each member, his successor shall be appointed
for a term of seven years, and all subsequent appointments shall be fora
like term. Vacancies occurring on the commission shall be filled by
the governor for the unexpired term. All appointments hereunder
shall be made without reference to party affiliations, but solely on
account of the fitness of the appointees to discharge their duties as
members of the commission. The membership of the commission,
however, shall at all times include at least two alumni of the Virginia
school for the blind, or of the department for the blind of the Virginia
school for the deaf and blind, at Staunton. Four members of the
commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any lawful
business. The terms of the members of the Virginia commission for
the blind who may be in office on the day before this act takes effect,
shall expire on the following day.

The board of visitors of the Virginia school for the blind, created
by an act approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
four, is hereby abolished and all of the powers and duties heretofore
conferred or imposed upon that board by law are hereby transferred
to and conferred or imposed upon the Virginia commission for the
blind.

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