Chap. 289.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Ist and 4th clauses of
section 1 of the act to give effect to a compromise of the litigation in
respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller,
deceased, and to establish the Manual Labor school provided for in
the 25th clause of said will.

Approved April 2, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first clause of the first section of an act to give effect to
a compromise of the litigation in respect to the: construction
and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to
establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-
fifth clause of said will, approved February twenty-fourth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows:

Clause first. The members of the board of education and
their successors in office, and the second auditor and his suc-
cessor in office, shall be a corporation by the name of The
Miller Manual Labor School of Albemarle, and shall bave
perpetual succession and a common seal, which it may alter
and renew at pleasure; and may sue and be sued; implead
and be impleaded; contract and be contracted with;. pur-
chase and take by grant, devise, or bequest; and hold estate,
real and personal, for the uses and purposes of the said
manual labor school.

2: The fourth clause of the said first section of the act
aforesaid, shall be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: :

Clause fourth. The corporation created by clause one shall
hold the legal title to all the property dedicated by the will
of Samuel Miller, and by the compromise aforesaid, to the
said manual labor school, and all other property hereby ac-
quired by it, for the use and benefit of said school. The
board of education sball discharge, in respect to the said
fund, all the duties devolved, and shall exercise all the powers
conferred by said twenty-fifth clause of said will upon the
board of the literary fund. The second auditor shall dis-
charge all the duties devolved by the said clause upon him,
and is hereby authorized to receive the compensation thereby
provided. The county court of Albemarle county is autho-
ized and required, setting in term, to discharge, by orders
entered in a record book, to be kept by the clerk of said
court specially for that purpose, a!l the duties devolved, and
exercise all the powers conferred by said twenty-fifth clause
upon tbe county court of said county. The charges and ex-
penses attending the establishment and support of the said
school, including the purchase of land (should any be pur-
chased), the erection of the buildings, the feeding, clothing,
and education of the pupile, the charges for medical attend-
ance upon them, and everything incident to and connected
with the school, shall, when examined, allowed and certified
by thé said county court of Albemarle, and approved by the
board of education, be paid by the said board of education
out of the income and profits of the trust fund created by
the twenty-fifth clause of said will. The record book afore-
said shall be provided from the fund, and the clerk of said
court shall receive for keeping the same, the same fees al-
lowed by law for orders in the order book of seid court, to
be paid out of the fund as other claims are provided to be
paid. And the district school trustees of the respective
school districts of said county shall select and designate,
subject to approval by the county court, as provided for in
the said twenty-fifth clause of said will, as pupils of said
school, those described in the said clause, and required by
the testator to be so selected.