Chap. 268.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 71, Code of 1887, in regard to
the management of the State Female Normal School, and to conform the same to
the Constitution.

Approved May 16, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
seventy-one, Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in regard to
the management of the State Female Normal School, and to conform
the same to the Constitution, be amended and re-enactd so as to read
as follows:

§ 1608. State Female Normal School continued; how vacancy in
board of trustees filled—The State Female Normal School for the train-
ing and education of white female teachers for public schools, estab-
lished at Farmville, in the county of Prince Edward, shall be continued
under the supervision, management, and government of the present
trustees until the first day of July, nineteen hundred and four. Within
six months preceding the day on which the terms of office of the trustees
shall expire by limitation, as aforesaid, the governor, by and with the
consent of the senate, shall appoint to fill the vacancies so occasioned
seven persons, who shall hold office from the first of July, nineteen
hundred and four, for two years; and six persons, who shall hold office
for four years from the first of July, nineteen hundred and four, and
thereafter, within six months preceding the day on which the terms of
office, respectively, of the several members of the board will expire by
limitation, as aforesaid, the governor, by and with the consent of the
senate, shall appoint to fill the vacancy so to be occasioned, persons
whose terms of office shall be four years from that date. The said
trustees shall be, and remain, a corporation under the style of the
“State Female Normal School.” The superintendent of public instruc-
tion shall be ex-officio a member of the board. Vacancies caused other-
wise than by the expiration of the term of office shall be filled by the
governor for the unexpired term by appointments, which shall be sub-
ject to ratification or rejection by the senate at the next session of the
general assembly.

§ 1609. Duties of board.—The board shall, from time to time, make
all needful rules and regulations for the good government and man-
agement of the school; fix the number and compensation of teachers
and officers, and necessary employees of the board and school; and shall
require bond, with approved security, from such of said officers or em-
ployees as, in their opinion, should be required to give the same, for
the protection of the school and the funds thereof. The bonds shall be
in such penalties, respectively, as the board may prescribe, payable to
the State Female Normal School. They shall be acknowledged or
proved before the president of the board, and when approved by the
board shall be filed with the auditor of public accounts. The board
shall prescribe the preliminary examination and conditions on which
students shall be received and instructed in the school. They may ap-
point an executive committee, to perform such duties as the board may
prescribe. The board shall annually transmit to the governor a full
account of their proceedings, together with a report of the progrese,
condition, and prospects of the school. All property held by the State
Normal School, as it existed on the twenty-eighth day of January, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-six, shall stand vested in “the State Female
Normal School”; and all the acts done by the trustees or other officers
prior to the twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-
six, shall have the same force and validity as if the board had been in-
corporated.

§ 1610. Grant of diplomas, and so forth.—The board shall have au-
thority to grant diplomas to graduates and certificates to proficients in
its course of normal studies.

§ 1611. Number of pupils each county and city may send free.—Each
city and county in the State shall be entitled to one pupil, and one for
each additional representative in the house of delegates above one, who
shall receive gratuitous instruction. The board shall prescribe rules
for the selection of such pupils and for their examination, and shall re-
quire each pupil selected to give satisfactory evidence of an intention
to teach in the public schools of the State for at least two years after
leaving the said school.

§ 1612. Annual appropriation.—For the support of said school there
shall be paid out of the public treasury, from time to time, such sums
as shall be appropriated therefor by the general assembly, to pay in-
cidental expenses, the salaries of officers and teachers, and to main-
tain the efficiency of the school: provided, however, that the Common-
wealth shall not in any instance be responsible for any debt contracted
or expenditure made by the institution, in excess of the appropriation
herein made.