Chap. 249.—An ACT to previde for an Increase of the School Fund:
of Prince William County.

Approved March 25, 180s

1. Be it enacted by the general assonibly, That the school
boards of the county of Prince William, or of any district
1ereof, shall have the power to submit to the qualified voters
; the territory under their jurisdiction, at the May or No-
ember elections, propositions to tax the said county or dis-
"icts, respectively, to increase the county or district school
inds. Public notice of said propositions, stating distinctly
1¢e total amount of tax asked for, shall be given at least
airty days before said clection, by posting the same in at
sast three. public places in each district to be affected there-
y, and by publication in some county newspaper for a period
Oot less than thirty days. At any election held under this
ct, a separate ballot box shall be provided by the judges of
lection for the vote on the said propositions, and each ballot
hall be endorsed with the name of the voter. It shall be
he duty of the judges of election to examine said ballots,
ind to make returns to the county commissioners of election,
n a form similar to other returns, the number of voters and
‘be number of freeholders voting for or against each of said
yropositions; and it shall be the duty of the county commis-
sioners aforesaid to report the result of the vote on each
proposition to the county board of supervisors. If the tax
named in any of said propositions shall be approved by three-
fifths of those voting on said proposition, and by a majority
of the frecholders goting thereon, the board of supervisors
shall, before the first of August following the election, and
annually thereafter, make. the necessary levy therefor: pro-
vided, that in no school district shall the total amount of
county and district school taxes exceed the maximum of said
funds now allowed to be levied by law, more than fifteen
cents on a hundred dollars of the taxable value of the pro-
perty in said district.

2. This act shall be a repeal of the act approved April
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled
an act to provide an increase of the county and district
school funds of Bland and Prince William counties, so far as
Prince William county is concerned.

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