Chap. 227.—An ACT Continuing the Powers of the Trustees of the
Gloucester Charity School, and Authorizing the Funds under their con-
trol to be Appropriated to the use of the Poor of Gloucester County,
and Repealing the Act on that Subject, approved March 31st, 1871.

In force March 25, 1873.

Whereas, by an act of incorporation passed by the general
assembly in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, trustees
were appointed to take charge of and appropriate the funds of
the Gloucester charity school, and for that purpose were em-
powered to discharge the duties of the overseers of the poor
of the county of Gloucester; and it is proper to continue the
trust of said fund in the present trustees of said charity school,
and their successors, that the poor of said county may receive
the benefit of said trust fund: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the trustees of said Gloucester charity school, and their suc-
cessors, shall continue to hold the funds arising from the pro-
perty entrusted to their care by the act of incorporation, and
to manage the same, as to them shall seem necessary and pro-
per for the benefit of the poor of said county; the interest and
profits derivable therefrom, and not the principal, to be devoted
to the said purposes.

2. The superintendent of the poor of said county of Glou-
cester shall be and he is hereby authorized to make recommen-
dations to said trustees to appropriate out of the income aris-
ing from said fund to the support of any individual unable to
support himself or his family, or for the maintenance of the
poor of the county generally; and the said trustees are au-
thorized, empowered and directed to co-operate with the said
superintendent of the poor, to the extent of receiving and re-
spectfully considering his said recommendations, and of ap-
propriating out of said income, in satisfaction of such recom-
mendations as they may approve, such sum or sums of money
as they may deem just and proper; for which they shall issue
their warrant on the treasurer of their board, payable out of
any money in his hands arising from said fund as income, to
be paid by said treasurer.

3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit
the board of supervisors of said county of Gloucester from
making such levy or appropriations for the support of the
poor of said county as they may deem necessary and proper,
under the general laws conferring authority upon said board
for that purpose.

4. The act prescribing duties and powers of the superinten-
dent of the poor and trustees of the Gloucester charity school,
approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy- one,
shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

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