Chap. 400.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1492 and 1493 of the Code
as heretofore amended, in relation to persons who shall be admitted to public
schools.

Approved March 16, 1908.

1. Be it enacted bv the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
fourteen hundred and ninety-two and fourteen hundred and ninety-
three of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§1492. Who admitted to public schools; provision for children of
adjoining districts; separate schools for white and colored.—The public
free schools shall be free to all persons between the ages of seven and
twenty years residing within the school district; and the State board
of education shall have power and it shall be its duty, to make regula-
tions whereby the children of one district may attend school in an ad-
joining district, either in or out of the county: provided, that white and
colored persons shall not be taught in the same school, but shall be
taught in separate schools, under the same general regulations as to
management, usefulness, and efficiency.

§1493. Qualifications of preceding section—The preceding section is
subject to the following qualifications:

First. Any person domiciled in this State who is a taxpayer in any
school district of the State, although not resident of said school district,
niay send his children to any public free school therein, upon such terms
and conditions as may be prescribed by the school board of the said
school district, and any guardian who is a taxpayer as aforesaid for
his ward or wards shall be entitled to the same privilege for them, if
they are domiciled in Virginia: provided, that the said taxpayer or
guardian shall have the right of appeal to the county school board of
the county in which said district is situated, which said county school
board shall decide finally what are just and proper terms and conditions
in each case; and provided further that children whose parents or guar-
dians do not reside in a town constituting a separate school district or
a city shall be received into the public schools of such town or city only
upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the school
board thereof for children residing therein; but the provisions of this
act shall not apply to indigent children.

Second. The school board of any district bordering on another State
which grants the same privilege to the State of Virginia may, in its
discretion, admit into its schools, free of tuition, persons of school age
residing beyond the limits of this State, but near thereto, if their parents
or guardians pay taxes in the said district.

Third. Attendance shall be upon the school in the district nearest to
the residence of the pupils, unless otherwise ordered by the district
school board, subject to the regulations of the State board of education.