Chap. 70.—An ACT to amend section 719 of the Code of Virginia. [H B 43)
Approved February 21, 1920.

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

_ Sec. 719. Who admitted to public schools; provision for children
of adjoining district; separate schools for white and colored.—The
public free schools shall be free to all persons between the ages of
seven and twenty years residing within the school district and persons
six years of age may be admitted to primary grades and persons
under six years of age to such kindergartens as may be established
by local school authorities and operated as a part of the public school
system, but such kindergartens shall not be entitled to participate in
the State school fund, but shall be supported by the local authorities
at their option. But whenever a school is so situated in one district
that it is, with the approval of the division superintendent, attended
by children of another district, the board of the district other than that
in which the school is located shall, in the absence of agreement or
when no agreement can be reached, pay for each child to the district
in which the school is located the cost of education per pupil enrolled,
to be determined by the division superintendent of schools, with
right of appeal by any person interested, or either of the district
school boards, either with reference to the propriety of the said attend-
ance by children of another district or the cost of education as afore-
said, within ninety days; that said appeal to be made in writing to
the school trustee electoral board of the county in which the school
is located ; and the State board of education shall have power and it
shall be its duty to make regulations whereby the children of one dis-
trict may attend school in an adjoining district, out of the county or
an adjoining city; provided, that white and colored persons shall not
be taught in the same school, but shall be taught in separate schools,
under the same general regulations as to management, usefulness and
efficiency.