Chap. 243.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an acc to provide
for authorizing county or city school boards to sell or exchange public
school property, approved May 21, 1887, as amended and re-enacted by an
act approved March 14, 1908, extending the same provisions to district
school board.

Approved March 16, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for authorizing county and city schools to sell
or exchange public school property, approved May twenty-first, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved
March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Any county, district or city school board may file its petition in the
circuit court of its city or county or the corporation or the hustings court
of its city, or before the judge thereof in vacation, asking leave to sell
or exchange any public school property which in its judgment it is desir-
able to sell or exchange, and upon evidence being produced before the
court, or judge thereof in vacation, that such sale or exchange is proper to
be made, the said court, or judge thereof in vacation, shall make such or-
der as may be proper providing for the sale of said property, or that the
same may be exchanged: provided, that if the said school property is
sold it shall be sold to the highest bidder at public auction after due
public notice of time and place of sale be made known by posting notices
in the school district, or city in which said school property is located,
and in case of sale of said property the court or judge shall make an
order for the proper use or investment of the proceeds of the same; the
court may make such order as to the cost as to it may seem proper. In
case of sale or exchange of district school property the deed for the same
shall be made by the school trustees of the district or districts in which
the property is situated.