Chap. 255.—An ACT to authorize the Governor, with the approval of the Virginia
Art Commission, to accept on behalf of the Commonwealth a tablet commemo-
rating Thomas S. Bocock and have it placed on the wall of the old Hall of
the House of Delegates; to authorize the Governor, with the approval of the
Virgima Art Commission, to have made and placed on the wall of the old Hall
of the House of Delegates, tablets bearing the names of certain Speakers of
the House of Delegates, and of the presiding officers of certain State Con-
ventions; and to appropriate money for that purpose. [S 226]

Approved March 16, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. The Governor may, subject to the approval of the
Virginia Art Commission, accept on behalf of the Commonwealth, a
tablet commemorating Thomas S. Bocock, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives of the Confederate States of America, to bear the name
of the donor, and to be placed on the wall of the old Hall of the House
of Delegates.

Section 2. The Governor is authorized, subject to the approval of
the Virginia Art Commission, to have made and placed on the wall of
the old Hall of the House of Delegates, a tablet bearing the names of
all the Speakers of the House of Delegates, who presided over sessions
held in this hall, and another tablet bearing the names of all the presiding
officers of the State Conventions of eighteen hundred twenty-nine-thirty,
eighteen hundred fifty-fifty-one, eighteen hundred sixty-one, eighteen
hundred sixty-seven-sixty-eight, nineteen hundred one-two and nineteen
hundred thirty-three, the sessions of which were held in this hall.

2. A sum sufficient is hereby appropriated for the above purposes,
payable out of the general fund of the State treasury, upon a warrant
or warrants drawn by the Comptroller on the State Treasurer, subject
to the approval of the Governor.