Chap. 197.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1506 of Code of Vir-
ginia, approved March 25, 1914, as amended by an act entitled 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. (S. B. 165.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

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

Sec. 1506. Of what school funds to consist.—The funds
applicable annually to the establishment, support and mainte-
nance of public free schools in this State shall consist of;

First. State funds, embracing the annual interest on the
literary fund; all appropriations made by the general assembly
for public free school purposes; that portion of the capitation
tax provided for in the Constitution to be paid into the State
treasury and not returnable to the counties, and such tax on
rroperty, not less than one mill nor more than five mills on the
dollar, as the genera] assembly, from time to time, order to be
levied. These funds shall be applied exclusively to the mainte-
nance 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 donations, 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 donations, or the income arising therefrom, or any other
funds that may be set apart for district school purposes.

The board of suvervisors of each county, at the regular meet-
ing 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 accordance with section fourteen hundred and sixty-
six of this chapter, 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 personal property in the county for the support of
the public free schools of the county, and a tax of not less
than fifteen not more than thirty-five cents on the hundred dol-
lars 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 levy a lower rate than forty
cents on the one hundred dollars for county school purposes,
then they may increase the levy for district school purposes
above the maximum of thirty-five cents on the hundred dollars
herein provided, in any district, to such rate as in their judg-
ment may be necessary, provided the total rate of county and
district levy shall not be more than seventy-five cents on the
one hundred dollars in any district; and provided further, that
should the board of supervisors fail to make a levy sufficient to
raise the amounts estimated by the county school board as neces-
sary 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 estimated amounts
to the qualified voters of the county or of the district, 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 to
the increase in the district levy; provided, however, that the
total levy for county and district school purposes shall not ex-
ceed seventy-five cents on the hundred dollars of the assessed
value of the taxable property in both the county and the dis-
trict; provided, further, that no such increased levy shall be
made unless a majority of the qualified voters voting at the
election shall vote in the affirmative. In towns that constitute
single school districts the council instead of the board of super-
visors 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
facilities in the county or district concerned.