Chap. 317.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide
for the establishment of libraries in the public schools of the rural dis-
tricts, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908, so as
to extend its provisions to the libraries of city schools.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the genera] assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to provide for the establishment of libraries in the public
schools of the rural districts, and to appropriate money therefor, ap-
proved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

81. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whenever
the patrons and friends of any public free school shall raise by private
subscription and tender to the clerk of the district or city school board,
for the establishment of a library to be connected with the said school,
the sum of fifteen dollars, the school board shall appropriate the sum of
fifteen dollars for this purpose, and shall appoint one intelligent person
in the school district or city the manager of said library. The district
board shall also appoint one competent person well versed in books to
select books for the libraries that may be established under the provisions
of this act from lists of books approved by the State board of education
and at such prices and under such rules and regulations as may be pre-
scribed by said board of education: provided, that no school board shall
be obliged to appropriate money for more than five libraries, as aforesaid,
in any one year.

As soon as any school board shall have made an appropriation for a
library in the manner prescribed, the division superintendent of schools
shall inform the State board of education of the fact, whereupon the said
State board of education shall remit to the treasurer of the county or
city in which such school is situated the sum of ten dollars for the pur-
chase of books: provided, that the treasurer shall have no commission for
receiving and disbursing this fund: and provided further, that the State
board of education shall fix rules and regulations looking to as wide a
distribution of this fund as may seem practicable.

Within thirty days after the payment of the money to the clerk of
the district school board the person appointed to select the books shall
submit the list of books to be purchased and prices of the same to the
clerk, who shall order the books at once. The clerk shall receive no com-
pensation for such services. The school board shall furnish a neat book-
ease, with lock and key, to each library, upon application of the manager
of the library.

The local manager of every library shall carry out such rules and
regulations for the proper use and preservation of the books as may be
enjoined by the State board of education.

The local managers of two or more libraries may by agreement ex-
«change libraries: provided, that no exchange shall be made oftener than
once in six months, and that no part of the expense of exchanging
libraries shall be borne by the public.