Chap. 352.—An ACT to incorporate Liberty Hill high school.
Approved March 2, 1888.

Whereas it is desirable and expedient that there should be
established at Liberty Hill, Tazewell county, Virginia, a high
school, in which shall be taught the languages and higher
mathematics in connection with the public free schools; and
whereas for the purposes of establishing such school, special
legislation is necessary; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
for the purpose of a high school at Liberty Hill, that a school
building recently erected by the board of trustees of the pub-
lic free schools of Maiden Springs district, in connection with
and by the help of William G. Harrison and others, is hereby
donated and allowed to be used for such high school.

2. That for the purpose heretofore set forth, the village of
Liberty Hill and country within a radius of two miles from
the centre thereof, shall constitute a sub-school district, in
which sub-school district the sale of intoxicating liquor or
any mixture thereof shall be prohibited.

3. A. P. Gillespie, T. L. Painter, G. W. Higginbotham, J.
8.8. Higginbotham, O. M. Brown, O. F. Bevens and William
L. Moore, and their successors, are hereby constituted and
made a body politic and corporate, by the name of the trus-
tees of the Liberty Hill high school; by which name they
shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, con-
tract and be contracted with, and have and use a common
seal, with power to purchase, receive and hold lands and
tenements, money, goods and chattels to an amount not ex-
ceeding twenty thousand dollars.

4, "The county school board may (a majority of said: board
concurring) donate to said body politic, out of the public
school money belonging to said county, the sum of five hun-
dred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required to pay
for necessary land, improve the school property, and to re-
fund to William G. Harrison the amount paid by himself and
associates on said building.

» §. There shall be taught annually in said school-house a
public free school for such time as the public free school
money allotted annually to said district and such other funds
as may be secured by subscription or otherwise tor that pur-
pose, shall defray the expenses thereof.

6. That said trustees, or a majority of them, shall choose
annually, by ballot, a board of directors of not less than three
nor more than eleven members, who shall elect their own
officers, including a secretary; and shall select and contract.
with such agents and teachers as may be necessary to carry
on said school, and may dismiss such agents and teachers
when delinquent, inefficient or in anywise unworthy of the
position, and may charge and collect tuition fees for any stu-
dies pursued by pupils in said school not embraced in the
public school course. And the said board of directors shall
have the general management of the institution during their
term of office. The superintendent of public schools of
Tazewell county shall be ex-officio the president of the board
of directors.

7. The board of directors shall take bond from the treas-
urer, with good security, payable to the trustees of the
Liberty Hill high school, in the penalty of twenty-five hun-
dred dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the du-
ties of his office.

8. When there shall be a vacancy in the board of trustees,
occasioned by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, the
remaining trustees, or a majority of them, shall, after being
notified by the president or secretary at least thirty days
previously, proceed to supply such vacancy. The trustees
shall meet semi-annually, or whenever a majority of their
number shall deem it necessary.

9. The board of trustees of this institution shall consist
of not less than three nor more than eleven members, a ma-
jority of whom shall constitute a quorum.

10. The trustees may adopt such constitution, rules, regu-
lations and by-laws, not contrary to the laws of this state or
the United States, as they may deem necessary for the good
of the institution.

11. The money to which said sub-district may be annually
entitled, shall be paid to the treasurer of said school by the
treasurer of Tazewell county, on filing with said county
treasurer a written statement, signed by the president of the
board of directors, testifying that a public free school has
been kept in operation for five months during the current
school year, or that arrangements have been made which will
secure the keeping it in operation that length of time: pro-
vided that in case of the unavoidable discontinuance of a
school before the expiration of the time required, the board

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of education shall be allowed to relax the requirements of
this section and to decide the case on its merits.

12. The principal of the Liberty Hill high school shall
have power to confer such certificates of proficiency and dis-
tinction as he may think best to promote the cause of edu-
cation.

13, This act shall be in force from its passage.