Chap. 242.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the title of Chapter 41 of the Code

of Virginia; and to amend and re-enact Sections 939, 942 and 943 of the Code

of Virginia. [S 183]
Approved March 16, 1944

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, that the title
of chapter forty-one of the Code of Virginia is hereby amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

CHAPTER 4x.

State Teachers Colleges for White Women
at Farmville, and at Harrisonburg.

2. Be it further enacted, that sections nine hundred and _ thirty-
nine, nine hundred and forty-two and nine hundred and forty-three of
the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 939. The State teachers colleges for the training and edu-
cation of white female teachers for public schools established at Farm-
ville, in the county of Prince Edward, and at Harrisonburg, in the county
of Rockingham, shall be continued as now provided by law, and under
the supervision and management and government of the State Board of
Education as provided for in this chapter.

Section 942. The State Board of Education shall succeed to all
the property, property rights, duties, contracts and agreements formerly
controlled by and vested in the board of trustees of the State female
normal school for women at Farmville and the State normal and indus-
trial school for women at Harrisonburg, the Virginia normal school
board, so far as the same relate to the said schools, and the board of the
Virginia teachers colleges, so far as the same relate to the said schools.
The State female normal school at Farmville shall hereafter be called
*‘The State Teachers College at Farmville”. The name of “The State
Teachers College at Harrisonburg”, formerly the State normal and in-
dustrial school for women at Harrisonburg, 1s hereby changed to “Madi-
son College”. The State board of education is hereby authorized and
empowered, in its discretion, to change the name of the State teachers
college at Farmville if, as and when this institution makes application to
the State board for such change.

Section 943. The State Board of Education shall have full authority
to manage and control the two said State institutions of learning, located
at Farmville and Harrisonburg, respectively. The said board shall safe-
guard the State funds of the said schools and distribute all appropriations
by the State in a careful and economical manner, and shall appoint, sub-
ject to the limitations of its funds and appropriations made by the State,
such officers, teachers and employees as it may deem necessary and may
remove any one of them at any time for cause.

It shall be the duty of the said board to prevent, as far as practicable,
unnecessary duplication of work in said schools, to provide for the cor-
relation of the work of said schools with each other and with the primary
and grammar grades and high schools of the State. It shall have the
power to grant certificates of graduation; and to confer appropriate de-
grees in education upon students completing courses in the institutions
under their charge. It shall fix the necessary requirements and courses
of study, and shall provide proper facilities for carrying on the work of
the said schools.