Chap. 15.—An ACT to ratify, contirm and validate all the acts of the present
de facto trustees of the school district of the town of Leesburg, and their
predecessors in office; for the appointment of the present de facto trustees
as trustees de jure, to ratify all the acts, proceedings and resolutions of said
de facto trustees, acting as the school board of said district, also the acts,
orders and resolutions of the board of supervisors of Loudoun county, and
all other officials, relative to the issuance of bonds by said school district
for the purpose of erccting a school building and equipping the same in said
school district; to validate an election held in said school district on Thurs-
day, March 3, 1921, authorizing the said board to issue bonds in the aggregate
amount of seventy-eight thousand dollars; to validate the bonds issued or
to be issued by the said board in pursuance of said election; to authorize the
said board to prescribe the denomination of and maturities of said bonds;
to provide for levy of taxes, and their collection, sufficient to maintain the
schools of said district, to pay the interest on said bonds annually, and to
provide for an annual sinking fund to pay the bonds as the same shall mature
in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof. [H B 147]

Approved February 17, 1922.

Whereas, a resolution was adopted by the school board of the
school district of the town of Leesburg on the twelfth day of Febru-
ary, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and a resolution was also
adopted by the board of supervisors for Loudoun county on the four-
teenth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, by which
said resolutions it was declared that an additional. school house was
necessary to provide additional public school facilities, and further
providing that the school funds of said district were not sufficient to
provide such additional buildings, and that it would be necessary
to negotiate a loan in an amount not exceeding seventy-eight thou-
sand dollars, to provide and maintain the necessary school building:
and

Whereas, by virture of an order of the circuit court of Loudoun
county, entered on the fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred
and twenty-one, an election was held on the third day of March,
nineteen hundred and twenty-one by the duly qualified voters of the
said school district for the purpose of determining the question
whether the issue of such bonds should be approved and sanctioned ;
and

Whereas, a canvass of the returns of said election showed that
the sum of seventy-eight thousand dollars was voted by a majority
of the qualified voters of said district to erect and maintain a suitable
school building for said district and authorizing the officials of said
district to negotiate a loan for that amount; and

Whereas, some question has arisen as to the legality and validity
of the acts and proceedings hereinbefore mentioned with regard to the
issue of said bonds, and it is now desired to legalize, validate and
confirm the acts and proceedings hereinbefore mentioned and the
issue and disposal of said bonds; now therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all
and singular the acts, proceedings, resolutions, contracts and engage-
ments of L. G. Caviness, H. H. Lefferts and H. H. Trundle, the
present de facto trustees of said school district and their predecessors
in office acting as a board, be and the same are hereby ratified. ap-
proved, confirmed and validated, notwithstanding any defect or ir-
regularity in the appointment of the said trustees or their predeces-
sors in office.

2. That the said L. G. Caviness, H. H. Lefferts and H. H.
Trundle are hereby confirmed and appointed trustees for said school
district for the town of Leesburg, to hold office with all the powers
and subject to all the duties of district school trustees under the
Constitution of Virginia, and its amendments, and under the general
school law as found in chapter thirty-three of the Code nineteen
hundred and nineteen, and acts amendatory thereof until their suc-
cessors are appointed by the school trustee electoral board of
Loudoun county.

3. That all the acts, proceedings, resolutions and orders of said
de facto trustees and their predecessors in office, acting as a board,
relative to the issuance of bonds by said school district for the
purpose of erecting a school building and equipping the same in said
district, as authorized by an election held Thursday, March third,
nineteen hundred and twenty-one, be and the same are hereby rati-
fied, approved, confirmed and validated.

4. That the acts, proceedings, resolutions, and orders of the board
of supervisors of Loudoun county ; that the acts, orders and proceed-
ings of the circuit court of Loudoun county; that the acts and
proceedings of the clerk of said court, of the sheriff of said county,
the electoral board and all school officers and election officers, relative
to and concerning said election for the purpose aforesaid, held on
Thursday, March third, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, in said
district, be, and the same are hereby, ratified, approved, confirmed
and validated, notwithstanding any defect, irregularity or omission in
the requirements necessary to be observed as prescribed by law.

5. That the said election, held in said district on Thursday,
March third, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, for the purpose afore-
said, wherein by a majority of votes the said school board was di-
rected and authorized to issue bonds in the aggregate amount of
seventy-eight thousand dollars to erect a school building and furnish
the same with proper equipment in said school district according
to plans and specifications, approved by the division superintendent
and the superintendent of public instruction, be and the same is
hereby ratified, approved, confirmed and validated, notwithstanding
any defect or irregularity or omission in the calling or holding of
said election, or in the return of the result of said election.

6. That in pursuance of said election the said school board 1s
hereby authorized to issue bonds to an amount, in the aggregate,
of seventy-eight thousand dollars, for the purpose aforesaid, in such
denominations, and with such dates of maturity as the said school
board may deem proper, bearing interest at six per centum per
annum, payable annually, which bonds, issued or to be issued, are
hereby ratified, approved, confirmed and validated, and are hereby
declared the valid and binding obligation of the said school district
of the town of Leesburg, Virginia, and are hereby constituted a lien
on all the school property in the aforesaid district, and the buildings
erected thereon, enforceable by suit in equity.

7. The authorities, who under the Constitution and present gen-
eral school law are directed to levy and collect school texes; shall and
they are hereby authorized to levy, not in excess of the rate prescribed
by general law, such rate of taxation on all the taxable property
in said school district as may be sufficient to maintain the schools
of said district, and in addition, pay the annual accruing instalments
of interest on said bonds, and provide an annual sinking fund suff-
cient to pay the principal of the bonds annually maturing; and it
shall be the duty of said authorities to make such levy, and collect
and disburse the same as aforesaid, and upon failure so to do, an-
nually, the holder of any bond or bonds, which are matured or on
which interest is in default, may by mandamus compel the. exercise
of this official duty.

8. The said school district being in urgent need of funds to be
derived from the issuance and sale of said bonds for the purpose
aforesaid, an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from
its passage.