Chap. 102.—An ACT providing for the appointment of a Superin-
tendent of Public Schools for the City of Roanoke,

Approved February 8, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the city of Roanoke, as the corporate limits are now or may
hereafter be defined, shall be entitled to a superintendent of
public schools, separate and distinct from the school organiza-
tion of Roanoke county; and the common council of said city
shall elect the school trustees for same; and it shall be the duty
of the board of education to appoint a superintendent of schools
for said city, whose term of office shall commence on the first
day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-six: and provided,
that the person who shall be appointed superintendent shall be
a resident of said city.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.