Chap. 366.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 20 of an Act Enti-
tled an Act to Provide a System of Public Free Schools in the Cities of
the Commonwealth, and to Repeal Section 66 of an Act Entitled an
Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free
Schools, approved July 11th, 1870.

Approved March 26, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the twentieth section of an act entitled an act to provide a sys-
tem of public free schools in the cities of the commonwealth,
and to repeal section sixty-six of an act entitled an act to es-
tablish and maintain a uniform system of, public free schools,
approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 20. It shall be the duty of the city or town council, and of
every incorporated town of over five hundred inhabitants,
which has been erected into a separate school district, to pro-
vide in due time, and it shall have no power to withhold the
sum or sums reported by the city or town school boards and
declared to be necessary for the proper maintenance and
growth of the public schools of the city or town: provided,
that the council shall not be required to appropriate a sum
greater than double the amount received from school funds of
the state during the same scholastic year; but the council may,
in its discretion, appropriate a larger sum, but it shall not have
power to impose # tax on property for school purposes exceed-
ing three mills on a dollar in any one year.

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