Chap. 756.~ACT to provide that the Clintwood subdistrict, in Dickenson county,
be, and the same is hereby, made a school district, to be known as the Clint-
wood school district, and to provide for building a school-house and raising
funds for same.

Approved March 4, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Clintwood sub-school district, in Dickenson county, be, and tho same
is hereby, made a school district, to be known as the Clintwood school
district, and the said school district shall be subject to the laws as
govern other school districts in said county.

2. That the limits of the said school district shall be as follows:
Beginning on Crane’s Nest river at the mouth of Holly creek ; thence
up said Crane’s Nest river to the mouth of a creek near Harmon
Keel’s house, known as Short branch; thence up said Short branch
so as to include the said Harman Keel and Henry Keel in the said
Clintwood school district to the house of Calvin Hughes, and includ-
ing the said Calvin Hughes inthe said Clintwood school district;
thence down Laurel branch to George’s fork school-house, including
John Browning in the said Clintwood school district; thence from
said George’s fork school-house to the gap in a ridge at the head of
Wilcat branch in a line of Mincey Mullen’s land; thence with the
said Mincey Mullen’s land so as to include her land in the said Clint-
wood schoo! district to John B. Phipp’s line; thence with John B.
Phipp’s line so as to exclude his land from the said Clintwood school
district to Brush creek; thence a straight line to the gap in a ridge
at the head of Rocky branch, and on a line between Joseph Baker
and Isaac Mullin’s land; thence with dividing ridge between said
Rocky branch and the branch that passes William J. Fleming’s
house to George Fleming and Zachariah Mullen’s line; thence with
their line to Holly creek so as to exclude said George Fleming’s land
and to include the said Zachariah Mullen’s land, and thence down
Holly creek to the beginning.

3. And the board of supervisors of said county, may in their dis-
cretion, assess, levy, and collect tax upon the taxable property of the
said Clintwood school district for the purpose of building and erect-
ing a suitable and convenient school-house for the said district in
the town of Clintwood, in said district, and the said board of
supervisors of the said county, may in their discretion, levy a tax
on said district sufficient to cover the provisions of sections four and
five of this act.

4. The trustees of the said school district are authorized in their
discretion to issue bonds upon the said school district for the pur-
pose of building a school-house in said district in such sums as they
may think best, amounting to not more than eight hundred dollars,
bearing interest, said bonds to be made payable at one, two, three,
and four years in equal installments.

5. The funds derived from the tax to be levied by the board of
supervisors of said county upon the said school district shall be ap-
plied to the payment—first of the interest on said bonds, and second
to the principal of said bonds. The levy laid for this purpose shall
only be sufficient to pay the bonds with accrued interest each year.

6. That the money which is or may be collected for the year eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-five, in pursuance to an act of the legisla-
ture approved March eight, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, en-
titled an act to authorize the board of school ,trustees of the Clint-
wood district, in Dickenson county, Virginia, to sell and convey the
present public school house and lot and to purchase another, and
to provide for assessing and collecting a tax on said district for
said purpose, is hereby directed to be paid over by the treasurer of
the said county to the trustees of the said school district, or upon
their order.

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