Chap. 290.—An ACT to appropriate the sum of $5,000 to add to and improve the
buildings at the State Female Normal School, at Farmville, and to increase the
annual appropriation to said schoo] from $15,000 to $25,000.

Approved May 20, 1903.

Whereas, on account of the small amount at present appropriated for
public school purposes, a large proportion of the teachers of the State
are young women who are willing to accept the small salaries paid; and,

Whereas, it is believed that the efficiency and popularity of the public
school system will gradually increase as the teachers become better
equipped and more thoroughly trained for the duties they have to per-
form; and,

‘Whereas, it is a fact that is generally recognized throughout the State,
that the State Female Normal School at Farmville must be looked to to
furnish said teachers; and,

Whereas, the said school, which was started in a small way, and with
a small appropriation from the State, has grown to such proportions that
it is impossible with the present buildings and present corps of teachers
to accommodate and properly instruct the students now attending the
said school; and,

Whereas, the State is now appropriating annually the sum of one hun-
dred and fifteen thousand dollars for the education of the young men,
and only fifteen thousand dollars for the education of the young women
of the State; and,

Whereas, the future efficiency of the public school system requires that
the State Female Normal School should have sufficient buildings to ac-
commodate the young women of the State who are willing to devote their
lives to teaching, and a sufficient number of well qualified instructors
to make the said school a normal school in fact, at least equal to that of
our sister States; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the generally assembly of Virginia, That the sum of
five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of
money in the public treasury not otherwise appropriated, for adding to
and improving the buildings at the State Female Normal School at
Farmville, so as to make the capacity of said buildings sufficient to accom-
modate at least three hundred students.

2. That the annual appropriation to said school be increased from
fifteen thousand dollars to twenty-five thousand dollars.

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