Chap. 870.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Third Clause of the
Fourteenth Section, the Ninth Clause of Fourteenth Section, the
Forty-first and Forty-seventh Sections, and to Repeal the Fifty-fifth
Section of an Act entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform
System of Public Free Schools, approved July 11th, 1870.

Approved March 26, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the third clause of the fourteenth section, the ninth clause of
the fourteenth section, the forty-first and forty-seventh sections 4
of an act entitled an act to establish and maintain a uniform
system of public free schools, approved July eleventh, eighteen ¢
hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so as to read 3
as follows:

§14. Clause third. To prepare annually, and at such other §
times as may be necessary, under directions from the superin- }
tendent of public instruction, a scheme for apportioning the
state and county school funds among the school districts
within each county under his supervision, a copy of which ¢
scheme shall be furnished to the county treasurer, and to the f t
clerk of each school district, and also to the editor of each ¢
newspaper which may be published within the county.

§ 14. Clause ninth. To administer oaths and take testimony
in all matters relating to public schools, whenever required in
cases pending or to come before himself or before the super-
intendent of public instruction, or before the board of educa-
tion; and also to administer the oath of office to district school
trustees when called upon to do so.

§ 41. The board of school trustees shall provide suitable s
school houses, with proper furniture and appliances in every }
school district; and to that end may hire, purchase or build
such houses, according to the exigencies of the district and the
means at their disposal: provided, that when school houses r
are purchased or built for public free schools, the sites thus >
determined upon shall be regarded as permanently fixed, and
no further change shall be deemed lawful unless sanctioned by
a vote of the county school board.

§ 47. The public free schools shall be free to all persons be- P
tween the ages of five and twenty-one years residing within “
the school district, and the board of education shall have R
power, and it shall be its duty to make regulations whereby ;,
the children of one district may attend school in an adjoining 4
district, either in or out of the county, and the cost of their
tuition be drawn from the funds pertaining to the district
wherein they reside: provided, that white and colored persons v
shall not be taught in the same school, but in separate schools, ¢
under the same general regulations as to management, useful- i
ness and efficiency; but no person shall be allowed to attend ¥
any public school whose father, if he be alive and resident ™
within the school district, and not a pauper, shall not have
paid the capitation tax in aid of public free schools last assessed
on him, in pursuance of section five of article ten of the con-
stitution, and section fifty-seven of this act.

2. That section fifty-five of an act entitled an act to estab- R
lish and maintain a uniform system of public free schools,
approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, be and
is hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Cc