Chap. 869.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An act
to authorize the district school boards in the county of Rockingham to use dis-
trict school funds for the payment of teachers,’’ approved August 23, 1884.

Approved March 8, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section one
of an act entitled ‘‘ An act to authorize the district school boards in the
county of Rockingham to use district school funds for the payment of
teachers,’’ approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. In the county of Rockingham it shall be lawful for the school
board of any school district, where a sufficient number of schoolhouses
have been built and maintained in proper repair, and where said houses
are sufficiently comfortable and commodious for the proper accommoda-
tion of the school population in said district, and all the contingent ex-
penses provided for, to make use of so much of the residue of the dis-
trict school money for the payment of teachers as may remain, if, in the
judgment of the school board, the educational interests of the district
may demand the use of said residue: provided, however, that upon
complaint of any five heads of families, resident in any school district
and patrons of the public free schools, that the district school money is
being used in such district for the pay of teachers before the prior con-
ditions of this act have been complied with, the county judge of Rock-
ingham county may examine into the matter after summoning the
school trustees of said school district before him; and if he is satisfied
upon the proof submitted that the prior conditions of this act have not
been complied with in such district he may enter an order suspending
the use of district school money in pay of teachers in such district until
such prior conditions have been complied with.

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