Chap. 199.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of an act
entitled “an act to define, and to provide for the management, control, mainte-
nance and operation of, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for such purpose
to provide for a board of directors, to set forth the powers and duties thereof;
to define its relation to the Arts Commission and to provide for the disposi-
tion of any revenues derived by and from the said museum,” approved
March 27, 1934. [H B 205]

Approved March 14, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sections
two, three, four and five of an act entitled an act to define, and to
provide for the management, control, maintenance and operation of,
the Virginia Museum of Fine Acts, for such purpose to provide for a
board of directors, to set forth the powers and duties thereof ; to define
its relation to the Arts Commission and to provide for the disposition
of any revenues derived by and from the said museum, approved March
twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2. The management and control of the land and building
referred to in the preceding section, which shall hereafter be known as
the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, together with the contents, furnish-
ings and grounds thereof, shall, be vested in a board of trustees com-
posed of John Garland Pollard, Jessie Ball duPont, John Stewart
Bryan, Pleasant L. Reed, Webster S. Rhoads, Katherine Rhoads,
Hildreth Dunn Scott, Blythe Branch, Alexander W. Weddell, Virginia
Chase Weddell, Eppa Hunton, fourth, E. Randoph Williams, Doctor
Douglas VanderHoof, Robert W. Daniel, Henry W. Anderson, Jay W.
Johns, W. H. Cocke, Corinne L. Meichers, Thelma Cudliff Whitman,
John M. Miller, Junior, Susanne Massie, Virginia Clarke Taylor, Anna
Hyatt Huntington and other persons, not to exceed ten, appointed and
commissioned by the Governor, upon the nomination of the trustees
from the list of members of the Museum; and the mayor of the city
of Richmond, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the Lieutenant-
Governor and the Governor of Virginia shall be ex-officio members of
the said trustees and shall be entitled to vote as the other members
thereof. Vacancies in the membership of the trustees shall be filled by
the Governor from nomination as aforesaid.

The said trustees shall adopt by-laws governing their organization
and procedure and may from time to time alter and amend the same.
The trustees shall elect one of their members president of the museum.

The trustees may also provide for an executive committee, composed
of not less than three and not more than seven trustees, which com-
mittee may exercise powers vested in and perform duties imposed upon
the trustees by this act to the extent designated and permitted by said
trustees.

Section 3. The said trustees are hereby vested with full power
and authority to manage, control, maintain and operate the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, including the contents, furnishings and grounds
thereof, and including the funds, property, endowments thereof, to
establish classes of membership in the museum under such regulations
as to them may seem proper and all members making a contribution of
one thousand dollars ($1,000.) or more may dispose of their member-
ship by last will and testament, to charge for admission to the said
museum if deemed proper, to employ such persons as may be necessary
to manage, control, maintain and operate the same, to suspend or re-
move at pleasure any person so employed, to determine what paintings,
statuary and works of art may be kept, housed or exhibited in the said
museum, to acquire by purchase, gift, loan, or otherwise, paintings,
statuary and works of art and to exchange or sell the same if not in-
consistent with the terms of the purchase, gift, loan, or other acquisition
thereof, to enter into agreements with organizations interested in art,
to adopt a seal, to stimulate and assist in the formation of new organiza-
tions, and to do such other things as they deem proper to promote
throughout the Commonwealth education in the realm of art, and also
to receive and administer on behalf of the Commonwealth gifts,
bequests and devises of real and personal property for the endowment
of said museum or for any special purpose designated by the donor.
And the said trustees are hereby authorized to change from time to
time the form of investment of any funds, securities, or other property
real or personal, provided the same be not inconsistent with the terms
of the instrument under which the same was acquired, and to that end
may sell, grant and convey any such property by and with the written
consent of the Governor. The trustees may from time to time confer
the honorary degree of patron of arts on any person who has, in their
opinion, made an outstanding contribution in the realm of art, but not
more than two such degrees shall be conferred in any calendar year.
Nine trustees shall constitute a quorum at any meeting and a majority
vote of those present shall control in all matters.

Section 4. The Art Commission shall have no power or authority
to control, manage or supervise in any way the said trustees in the
exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties provided for
in this act except that in the matter of additions, repairs and alterations
of the museum itself, the Art Commission shall continue to exercise the
powers now conferred by law, which powers are specifically reserved
to the said commission, but the said trustee shall not acquire for or
permit to be displayed in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by gift,
purchase or otherwise any paintings, statue, or work of art which has
been or may hereafter be disapproved or rejected by the Art Com-
mission for acquisition and exhibit elsewhere in the Commonwealth.

Section 5. All money received by the museum for current expenses
in conducting said museum shall be paid into the treasury of Virginia,
where it shall be set aside as a special fund for the operation of the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for which purpose such money is here-
by appropriated, to be paid by the Treasurer on warrants of the
Comptroller issued upon vouchers signed by the president of the said
Museum or his duly authorized agent.