Chap. 210.—An ACT to incorporate the Bland County High School,
in the town of Seddon, and to create a sub-school district in Bland
county, and for other purposes.

Approved February 24, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
for the purpose of establishing a high school therein, to.be run
and conducted in connection with a public free school, the town
of Seddon, in the county of Bland, and that part of said county
within a radius of one and one-half miles from the centre of
said town, shall constitute a sub-school district.

2. A. N. Thompson, R. C. Green, Martin Williams, A. J.
Grayson, George W. Penly, James S. Robinett, B. H. Penly,
F. J. Suiter, D. W. Dunn, and John W. Davidson, and their
successors in office, are hereby constituted and made a body
politic and corporate, by the name of the Trustees of the Bland
High School; by which name they may sue and be sued, con-
-tract and be contracted with, and have and use a common seal,
and shall have power to purchase and hold lands and tenements,
personal chattels, bonds, notes, accounts, moneys, and other
goods and chattels, to an amount not exceeding twenty thou-
sand dollars; and shall have power to borrow money on the
faith of said property, and to mortgage and otherwise encum-
ber the same to secure loans and advances made on the faith
thereof.

3. The county school board of Bland county (a majority
thereof concurring) may from time to time advance to said
trustees of the Bland high school, such sum or sums of money
as would be properly applicable to the building or repairing a
school-house or houses in ‘the territory comprising the sub-
school district created by this act, to be applied by said trus-
tees towards the purchase or repair of a school-house for the
use of said high school: provided, that the county school
board shall have a lien on such property, to secure the pay-
ment of all money so advanced, in the event it should ever be-
come necessary to re-invest said money in another school build-
ing for free school purposes.

4. There shall be allotted and paid annually to the teachers
in said high school so. much of the public free school moneys
applicable to the payment of teachers in said county, as is
justly due to said sub-district; and in consideration thereof,
there shall be taught in said high school-house, annually, a
public free school, for such time as the public free school mo-
ney so allotted to said sub-district, as aforesaid, will defray the
expenses of paying the teachers thereof.

5. It shall be lawful for the parent or guardian of any white
child, between the age of five and twenty-one years, who is
entitled to attend any free school in said county, to have such
child transferred by the school trustees or school boards, as
now provided by law, from the district in which the said child
lives to the sub-district created by this act; and if the said
child attends the said high school, there shall be paid to the
trustees thereof so much of the school funds applicable to the
pay of teachers as would have been paid on account of such
child had the child attended school in his or her own district:
provided, that no such transfer shall be made if any free school
will be thereby prevented from having the average attendance
of pupils now required by law.

6. The said trustees, or a majority of them, shall annually
choose, by ballot, a board of directors of not less than five nor
more than seven members, who shall select their own officers,
consisting of a president, secretary and treasurer; and it shall
be the duty of said board of directors to employ such teachers,
assistants and agents as may be deemed necessary for the con-
duct and management of said high school; and the board ot
directors shall have the general management of the institution
during their term of office. The superintendent of schools for
the county of Bland, shall be ex officio the president of the
board of directors, and have the casting vote in the event of a
tie. He shall call a meeting of the said board of directors
whenever he shall deem it proper to do so, or when he shall
be required so to do by an order of the board, or upon the
written request of at least two of the members thereof: pro-
vided, that the teacher of the free school in said building shall
be appointed by, and be under the control of, the public free
school authorities in said district and county.

7. The said board of directors shall take from the treasurer
bond, with good security, in such penalty as they may pre-
scribe, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as
treasurer, and to account for all moneys which may come into
his hands as treasurer.

8. It shall be lawful for the county school board of said
county, to turn over to the treasurer of said Bland high school,
any school-house or school-house property, in said sub-school
district, to sell the same and apply the proceeds towards the
building a school-house for said high school.

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