CHAP. 31.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to pro-
vide for instruction in agriculture, domestic arts and sciences and
manual training in public high schools, approved March 16, 1910.

Approved February 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to provide for instruction in agriculture,
domestic arts and sciences, and manual training, in public high
schools, approved March sixteen, nineteen hundred and ten, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
in at least one public high school to be selected by the State board
of education in each congressional district of the State as the
said congressional districts were formed on January first, nine-
teen hundred and twelve, a through course in agriculture, the
domestic arts and sciences and manual training shall be given
in addition to the academic course prescribed for such high
schools, and at least one-fourth of the school time shall be devoted
to these subjects, approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred
and ten, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$2. Not less than five acres of land, convenient to each of
said schools, shall be acquired by lease, purchase, or donation
for the purpose of providing practical demonstration in agri-
cultural science. The cultivation of these lands, as far as practi-
cable, shall be done by the students themselves. A careful ac-
count shall be kept of the product of each student’s labor, show-
ing how it is disposed of and the prices received on the products
which are sold. The proceeds of such sales shall be applied or
used under general regulations adopted by the district school
board of the county in which the agricultural school is located,
which regulations must be approved by the State board of
education.

§3. Suitable buildings shall be provided and properly equip-
ped for the purposes of said schools, including workshops, plan-
ned for practical instruction in elementary manual training, in
bench work, and in other forms of shop work applicable to rural
life.
§4. All female students attending the high schools provided
for under this act shall be instructed in the domestic arts and
sciences, and suitable equipments for such instruction shall be
provided by the district school boards out of the funds applica-
ble to the maintenance and equipment of the school. Said female
students may also take the agricultural course, if they so desire.

$5. The agricultural high schools established under this act
may be used as centers for directing the demonstration farm
work and other extension work throughout the bounds of the
several congressional districts, and shall be conducted under such
rules and regulations as the State board of education and the
president of the Virginia college of agriculture and polytechnic
institute may prescribe.