Chap. 42.—An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection 2, of an act entitled: An
act to amend and re-enact section 1470 of the Code of Virginia relating to
the division of school districts and subdistricts, so as to provide for such
division; for the government and administration of such subdistricts; for
additional school tax therein; for appointment of school directors, providing
for their terms of office, powers, duties, for adoption of this act by the coun-
ties of the State, and for relief from such adoption, approved March 15, 1906.

Approved February 15, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That subsection
two of an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact section one thousand
four hundred and seventy of the Code of Virginia relating to the division
of school districts and subdistricts, so as to provide for such division ;
for the government and administration of such subdistricts; for ad-
ditional school tax therein; for appointment of school directors, pro-
viding for their terms of office, powers, duties, for adoption of this act
by the counties of the State, and for relief from such adoption,” approved
March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§1470. Division of school districts into subdistricts; for government
and administration of same; for additional school tax therein; and for
appointment of school directors, providing for their terms of office,
powers, duties, etcetera.

2. That in due time, before the opening of the schools in the year
nineteen hundred and seven, or in any year thereafter, following the
adoption of this act by any county, it shall be the duty of each district
school board throughout the State, in each county in which this act
may be adopted, as hereinafter provided, to determine, by specified
boundaries what shall be the area to be attached to each school-house for
a primary school for white children, and to each school-house for a pri-
mary school for colored children in the respective districts throughout
the district, or in any part thereof. These areas shall be called sub-
districts, and their boundaries and number may be changed from time to
time, at the discretion of the district board, but both in establishing and
altering the boundaries of such subdistricts such board shall be governed
by the provisions of section one thousand five hundred and three of
the Code of Virginia, as amended. The subdistricts for the white
children shall be renumbered with cardinal numbers, and the subdis-
tricts for the colored children shall be lettered with capital letters, the
letters being further distinguished by cardinal numbers each time the
letters of the alphabet are exhausted, as A-one, B-one, etcetera, A-two,
B-two, etcetera. Whereupon the district school board shall record these
actions on its minutes and certify a copy of same to the clerk of the
county, who shall record same in his office in a separate book, which he
shall provide at the expense of the county school fund. for the purpose.
The subdistricts for white and colored children, respectively, shall be
considered as separate subdistricts, although the territories may overlap
each other, for all the purposes and in the construction and appli-
cation of this act, and only white persons shall vote in the meetings
of subdistricts for white persons, and only colored persons shall vote in
meetings of subdistricts for colored persons.