Chap. 574.—An ACT to authorize the school electoral board of Norfolk county to
increase the number of district school trustees for Washington magisterial dis-
trict.

Approved February 28, 1898.

1. be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall be
lawful for the school trustee electoral board of Norfolk county to appoint
two additional district school trustees for Washington magisterial district
in said county, so that there shall be five district school trustees for said
district, who shall constitute the district school board thereof.

2. The said additional district school trustees shall be appointed at
any time prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, and shall on that day enter upon the discharge of their duties as
such district school trustees.

3. The said school trustee electoral board shall at the time of making
the appointments herein provided for designate one of said additional
district school trustees whose term of office shall expire on the thirty-first
dav of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and the other whose
term of office shall expire on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen
hundred and one; and the regular appointments to fill the office of the
additional district school trustees hereby created shall be made every
three years from and after the expiration of the respective terms of the
district school trustees first appointed under the provisions of this act.

4. The district school board hereby created shall be vested with all the
rights, powers and duties, and shall be subject to all powers, regulations
and restrictions now conferred and imposed by law, except that any three
members of such board shall constitute a quorum, and a concurrence of
A laajority of the board in duly assembled meeting shall be required to
constitute a valid act: provided, however, that the members of said dis-
trict school board shall each be entitled to only three-fifths of a vote in
the county school board of said county of Norfolk.

5. The provisions of this act shall remain in force only so long as the
school district of Washington magisterial district, as it is now consti-
tuted, shall remain unchanged. Should any portion of the territory now
included in said school district withdraw or become separated therefrom,
then and in that event such of the district school trustees who may be
residing in that part of the district so withdrawn or separated shall be-
come functus oflicio, and the original number of three district school
trustees shall thereupon be re-established.

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