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1920.

Chapter 86. An ACT to provide that the University of Virginia,
the College of William and Mary, the Virginia Agricultural
and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, the Virginia
Normal and Industrial Institute, and the several State normal schools
for women shall be placed on the year-round basis of instruction
as soon as their financial resources will warrant. Approved February
25, 1920.

"Whereas, it is desirable to make it possible for young men and
women to secure the training offered in institutions of higher learning
in a briefer time and thus permit them at an earlier age to
assume the responsibilities of citizenship; and,

Whereas, it is especially necessary to furnish added facilities for
the preparation of teachers in the public school system, the training
of teachers in the profession being a most important factor in
teacher-training; therefore,

"1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute,
the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and the several
State normal schools for women, be placed on the year-round basis
of instruction as soon as their financial resources will warrant, and
that the summer term be organized on the basis of a quarter of the
year's work of equal grade and degree credit with the work of any
other quarter. Acts of 1920, p. 73.

Chapter 267. An ACT to provide for the appointment of a
commission on medical education in Virginia; to define its powers
and duties; to provide how the University of Virginia and the
Medical College of Virginia may be consolidated and prescribing
the effect thereof. Approved March 19, 1920.

"1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
there shall be appointed a commission on medical education in Virginia,
which commission shall have the powers and duties hereinafter
prescribed.

2. The said commission shall be appointed as follows: Two by
the president of the senate from among the membership of the
senate; two by the speaker of the house of delegates from among
the membership of the house; and five by the governor, of whom
one shall be nominated to him by the board of visitors of the
University of Virginia from among the medical faculty of the
University of Virginia, and one by the board of visitors of the
Medical College of Virginia from among the medical faculty of
the Medical College of Virginia. All members of the commission
shall be qualified voters of the Commonwealth. The members of
the commission shall name one of its number chairman and another
secretary.

3. The commission aforesaid shall investigate and study the
question of medical education in Virginia, and upon the basis of
such investigation and study shall make recommendations on the
subject of the consolidation of the two State-owned educational
institutions now giving courses in medicine and kindred subjects,
to-wit, the University of Virginia and the Medical College of
Virginia. In case the commission shall be of the opinion that consolidation
should be effected, it shall include in its recommendations
the terms and conditions upon which in its opinion the said consolidation
should be accomplished. In its investigation the commission
shall seek the assistance of such trained experts in medical education
as may seem necessary or desirable, and may call upon the board
of visitors of the two institutions above-named, as well as any
officer of either of said institutions, for such suggestions or information
as it may desire in aid of its work.

4. After the commission has completed its investigations and
has formulated its recommendations it shall transmit one copy
of its report to the governor and one copy to each of the aforesaid
institutions concerned; and, if the commission recommends consolidation,
the governor shall call a joint meeting of the boards of
visitors of the two institutions, after at least one month from the
time of transmission of the report of the two institutions, to consider

the recommendations of the commission. The boards shall
then endeavor to agree upon a plan of consolidation based in whole
or in part upon the recommendations of the commission; and if
agreement is reached the terms and conditions thereof shall be
reported to the governor as soon thereafter as possible and by him
laid before the general assembly at its next regular session for its
approval or disapproval.

5. If the boards of visitors of the two institutions are unable to
reach an agreement on the subject of consolidation, as aforesaid, the
report of the commission shall by the governor be transmitted to the
general assembly at its next regular session, with such recommendations
as he may see fit to make.

6. The members of the commission on medical education in
Virginia shall receive no compensation for serving thereon, but
they shall severally be reimbursed for their actual traveling expenses
and hotel bills in attending meetings of the commission. Furthermore,
the commission is given authority to engage the services of
such expert and clerical assistants as may be necessary to enable it
properly to discharge its duties; and for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of the commission, as aforesaid, there is hereby appropriated,
out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,
the sum of two thousand dollars. The said sum, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, shall be paid by the treasurer of Virginia on
warrants of the auditor of public accounts issued on certificates
signed by the chairman of the commission and countersigned by
its secretary.

7. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage. Acts of 1920, p. 388.

Chapter 305. An ACT to provide for the appointment of a
commission to be known as the University of Virginia and Richmond
Memorial Road Commission; to prescribe its powers and
duties; and to provide for the construction of the University of
Virginia and Richmond memorial road. Approved March 19,
1920. Acts of 1920, p. 422.

Note. Title alone given, as it remotely concerns the University.