Chap. 588.—An ACT to provide for the establishment and maintenance of state
summer normal schools and to make an appropriation therefor.

Approved March 3, 1894,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is hereby annually appro-
priated, payable out of any amount appropriated out of the general
fund of the state for public free school purposes, for the establish-
ment and maintenance of state sunimer and normal schools, for the
better equipment of the teachers in the public schools of this state.

2. The purpose of said normal schools shall be to familiarize the
teachers in the public schools of this state with more advanced
methods of teaching and to furnish such additional academic train-
ing as will tend to promote the usefulness of the public schools.

3. The said summer normal schools shall be conducted under the
general management of the board of education, and shall be subject
to the supervision of the superintendent of public instruction, who
shall from time to time select the places of holding said normal
schools, the instructors therefor and regulate the course of instruction
to be pursued therein.

4. The said normal schools shall be held for a period of not less
than four weeks in each year, beginning on such day or days in the
summer vacation of the public schools a3 may be designated by the
superintendent of public instruction. The sum hereby appropriated
shall be applied exclusively to the payment of instructors and to
other necessary expenses incident to the conduct of said schools: pro-
vided that all claims for services of instructors and other necessary
expenses shall be submitted to and approved by the board of educa-
tion, and when so approved shall be paid by warrants of said board,
drawn on the second auditor, and a separate account of the receipts
and disbursements on account of the appropriation shall be kept by
said board. On or before the first day of June, eighteen hundred
and ninety-four, and each succeeding year, the auditor of public
accounts shall turn over to the second auditor the sum of two thou-
sand five hundred dollars for deposit to the credit of the board of edu-
cation, the said sum to be expended by said board in carrying out the
purposes of this act as hereinbefore set forth.
7. This act shall be in force from its passage.