CHAP. 226.—An ACT to encourage Intermediate Grades of Instruction
ia Public Schools.

Approved March 25, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That for the
yurpose of encoursging an intermediate grade of instruction

tween that of the common school and that of the college,
it shall be lawful for any district school board of Rockbridge
county (or of any other county, the county school board of
which may elect to avail themselves of the provisions of
this act), to admit into any one of the public schools of their
district instruction in any branches necessary to qualify
pupils to become teachers in the public schools, or to enter
with advantage any of the colleges or higher institutions of
the state; and for instruction in any other branches than
those provided for in section sixty-one of chapter seventy-
eight of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
the said board of trustees may require a fee to be paid,
monty or quarterly in advance, not exceeding .two dollars
and fifty cents per month for each pupil: provided, tbat the
instruction of such higher branches in any school shall be
first sanctioned by the county school board, and shall be
discontinued whenever the said board shall think advisable.

2. That they shall not be allowed to interfere with regular
and efficient instruction in the elementary English branches,
and to secure this end in schools having but one teacher, not
less than five hours each day shall be given exclusively to
instruction in said elementary branches.

3. That in schools having not less than forty pupils en-
rolled, with an average attendance of thirty, at least two
teachers shall be employed, the whole time of one of whom
shall be devoted to instruction in elementary branches.

4. This act shall be in force from its passage.