Chap. 306.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 336 of the acts of assembly
of 1926, entitled, “An act to create a commission to represent the State
in arranging and carrying out a program for the celebration of the bi-
centennial of the birth of George Washington, and to define the powers and
duties of the commission,’ approved March 24, 1926. [S B 381]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
three hundred and thirty-six of the acts of assembly of nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: |
A. State commission of eleven members is hereby created for the
purposes of this act. The governor, president of the senate and the
speaker and the clerk of the house of delegates shall be members thereof,
and the governor shall appoint one citizen.

The other six members shall be appointed as follows: three by the
president of the senate and the others by the speaker of the house of
delegates. A vacancy occurring at any time from any cause in the
appointive membership of the commission shall be filled by appoint-
ment by the officer who made the original appointment. The governor
shall be chairman of the commission and the clerk of the house of
delegates shall be secretary thereof. The members shall receive no
compensation for their services. The existence of the commission shall
terminate December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two. The
present members of the commission shall continue in office.

2. ‘The commission shall represent this State in formulating and
carrying out a program for the celebration in the year nineteen hun-
dred and thirty-two of the bi-centennial of the birth of George Wash-
ington, and to that end shall confer and act with any commission or
commissions created or to be created for the purposes of such celebration
by act of congress and by any of the States, and with the civic national
committee established by the George Washington bi-centennial com-
mittee, and with other civic bodies in so far as their activities relate
to such celebration. The commission shall make a report to the gen-
eral assembly at its session of nineteen hundred and thirty and shall
include such recommendations as it may deem advisable or essential
in the preparation and carrying out of a fitting and adequate plan for
such celebration.

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