Chap. 415.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for
the relief of school teachers, approved February 16, 1886.

Approved May 23, 1887.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act for the relief of school teachers, ap-
proved February sixteen, eighteen hundred and eighty-six,

e amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. In cases where the monthly salary of a public free
school teacher has been reduced in consequence of a lower
average attendance of pupils during any month or months of
the school term than the average required by law, and it
further appears from the term roport that the average at-
tendance of pupils during any month or months of the school
term has been above that required by law, then such: teacher
shall be entitled to a compensation per capita at the rate
specified in the contract, to the extent to which the excess in
the average attendance above the required average, makes u
for the deficiency therein: provided that in no case shall the
whole amount of salary allowed, exceed the maximum salary
specified in the teacher’s written contract. Warrants for
such amounts as may be shown by the term report to be due,
shall be issued and paid in the manner prescribed by law for
issuing and paying other warrants for teachers’ salaries.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall ap-
ply to the current session.