Chap. 318.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1492, code of Virginia, 1887
in relation to the attendance of children in public schools.

Approved February 13, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and ninety-two, code of Virginia eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as

ollows:

§ 1492. The public free schools shall be free to all persons between
the ages of five and twenty-one years residing within the school dis-
trict, and the board of education shall have power, and it shall be its
duty, to make regulations whereby the children of one district may
attend school in any adjoining district, either in or out of the countv,
but when there are one or more schools other than graded schools in the
same school district, the attendance shal! be upon the nearest school to
the respective pupils, unless otherwise ordered by the district school
board, and the cost of their tuition be drawn from funds pertaining
to the district wherein they reside, in cases where no school has been
located and opened in the district in which the said children reside
and sufficiently near for them to attend the sams, or, if located and
opened, some unavoidable hindrance prevents their attendance; pro-
vided that white and colored persons shall not be taught in the same
schools, but in separate s:hools und+*r the same general regulations
as to management, usefulness and efficiency.

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