Chap. 82.—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
district, and to appropriate money therefor, approved March 14, 1908,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 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] districts and to appropriate money
therefore, approved March 14, 1908, so as to extend its provisions to the
libraries of city schools, approved March 17, 1910. (S. B. 205.)

Approved March 13, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general 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, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled 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 districts, and to appro-
priate money therefor, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hun-
dred and eight, so as to extend its provisions to the libraries of city
schools, approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1. 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 con-
nected 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
prescribed 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.

Sec. 2. As soon as any school board shall have made an appro-
priation for a library in the manner prescribed and the person ap-
pointed to select the books shall have submitted the list of books
to be purchased and the prices of the same to the clerk of the school
board, the clerk of said school board shall forward an order for the
said list of books, with a warrant for not less than forty dollars
made payable to the contractor or dealer with whom the State board
of education shall have made arrangements to furnish the books
under the provisions of this act, to the division superintendent of
schools; whereupon the division superintendent of schools shall
forward the order for said list of books, cr a.copy thereof, an ap-
plication for State aid and the warrant aforesaid to the department
of public instruction. Upon the receipt of said order and warrant
the 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,
the State’s contribution for the purchase of books, as aforesaid, and
the department of public instruction shall forward the order and
the warrant to the said dealer or contractor under rules and regula-
tions to be formulated by the State board of education. The treas-
urer shall have no commission for receiving and disbursing the
funds provided for in this act. The State board of education shall
fix rules and regulations looking to as wide a distribution of the
funds as may seem practicable. The district school board shall
furnish a neat bookcase with lock and key for each library upon
application of the manager thereof.

Sec. 3. The local manager of every library shall carry out such
rules and regulations for the proper use and preservation of books
as may be prescribed by the State board of education. The local
managers of two or more libraries may be permitted to exchange
libraries under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the State
board of education.