Chap. 424.—An ACT to authorize the trustees of Tazewell high school to sell
and Convey any property held by them to the trustees of the Jeffersonville
district free school board, to be held by the latter for free school purposes.

Approved February 26, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion two of an amended act entitled an act to authorize the trus-
tees of Tazewell high school to exchange any property held by them
for other property more suitable for school purposes, approved April
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be it amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 2. G. H. Reed, I. E. Chapman, J. Stras, A. P. Brown, J. P. Kelly,
A. J. May and W. W. Peery, and their successors, are hereby con-
stituted and made a body politic and corporate by the name of the
trustees of the Tazewell high school, by which name they shall have
perpetual succession; may sue and be sued; contract and be con-
tracted with, and have and use a common seal, with power to pur-
chase, receive and hold lands, tenements, money, goods and chattels
to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, and said trus-
tees and their successors shall have. power to sell and convey any
property now or hereafter held by them to the trustees of the free
school board of the Jeffersonville (now Tazewell) school district of
Tazewell county, to be used by them for free school purposes; and
the said trustees of the Jeffersonville (now Tazewell) district, and
their successors in office, may at any time, in their discretion, sell
the said property so conveyed to them; provided, however, that the
proceeds arising from the sale of same shall, as soon as practicable,
be reinvested in the purchase and equipment of other property in the
town of Tazewell, to be used for free school purposes.

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