Chap. 263.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1506 of Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to what school funds shall consist
of, approved March 12, 1908. (H. B. 50.)

Approved March 25, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen hundred and six of Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1506. Of what school funds to consist.—The funds appli-
cable annually to the establishment, support and maintenance of
public free schools in this State shall consist of—

First. State funds, embracing the annual interest on the liter-
ary fund; all appropriations made by the general assembly for
public free school purposes; that portion of the capitation tax pro-
vided for in the Constitution to be paid into the State treasury
and not returnable to the counties, and such tax on property, not
less than one mill nor more than five mills on the dollar, as the
general assembly, from time to time, order to. be levied. These
funds shall be applied exclusively to the maintenance of primary
and grammar schools.

Second. County funds, embracing such tax as shall be levied
by the board of supervisors in pursuance of this section, and dona-
tions, or the income arising therefrom, or any other funds that
may be set apart for district school purposes.

Third. District funds, embracing such tax as shall be levied
by the board of supervisors of the county for the purposes of the
school district in pursuance of this section; such dog tax as shall
be applied to school purposes by the board of supervisors, and do-
nations, or the income arising therefrom, or any other funds that
may be set apart for district school purposes.
The board of supervisors of each county, at the regular meeting
in April of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, or when
the division superintendent of schools shall file with the said board
the estimates made by the county and district school boards in ac-
cordance with section fourteen hundred and sixty-six of this chap-
ter, shall levy a tax of not less than ten nor more than forty cents
on the hundred dollars of the assessed value of the real and per-
sonal property in the county for the support of the public free
schools of the county, and a tax of not less than fifteen nor more
than thirty-five cents on the hundred dollars of the assessed value
of the real and personal property in any school district for district
school purposes: provided, that should the board of supervisors
fail to make a levy sufficient to raise the amounts estimated by the
county school board as necessary for county and district school
purposes, respectively, it shall, upon a petition in writing from the
county school board praying for a reference of the question of such
increase in the levy as will make it sufficient to raise the said esti-
mated amounts to the qualified voters of the county or of the dis-
trict, as the case may be, submit the question and the amount of the
increase to the qualified voters of the said county for the increase
in the county levy, or to the qualified voters of the said district as
io the increase in the district levy; provided, however, that the
total levy for county and district school purposes shall not exceed
fifty cents on the hundred dollars of the assessed value of the tax-
able property in both the county and the district; provided, fur-
ther, that no such increased levy shall be made unless a majority
oi the qualified voters voting at the election shall vote in the affirm-
ative. In towns that constitute single school districts the council
instead of the board of supervisors may make the levy for district
school purposes.

Boards of supervisors may be permitted to make a less rate of
levy than the minimum rates of county or district school levies
named above in any case by a special order of the State board of
education, if in the judgment of said board, the said less rate of
levy will produce sufficient funds to provide adequate school facil-
ities in the county or district concerned.