Chap. 264.—An ACT to pay to the public free schools the money set
apart by the constitution and laws for their benefit, and to repeal
chapter 248 of Acts of 1877-78, and chapter 177 of Acts of 1878-79.

Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the auditor
of public accounts is hereby required, immediately upon
receipt of the land and property books of the several com-
missioners of the revenue of the commonwealth, to make a
calculation of the gross sum of all the funds applicable to
public free school purposes for the ensuing year, of which
amount he shall report ninety per centum thereof to the
superintendent of public instruction as an approximate basis
for distribution, whereupon said superintendent of public
instruction shall at once make out and furnish to the auditor
of public accounts a distmbutive statement of the amounts
due the several counties and corporations in the state upon
this approximate basis. Upon receipt of such statement, the
auditor of public accounts shall issue his warrant upon the
treasurer of the state in favor of the superintendent of each
county or corporation, for the amount which each county or
corporation is entitled to receive under said statement, which
warrant, when endorsed by said county or corporation super-
intendent to the treasurer of his county or corporation, as
hereinafter provided by the second section of this act, shall
be paid by the treasurer of the state, or shall be accepted
from such county or corporation treasurer as cash in all set-
tlements for public revenue made by him with the auditor of
public accounts, so far as paid by the warrants hereinafter
provided tor.

2. The superintendent of schools of cach county or corpo-
ration shall, upon the receipt of such warrant, endorse the
same to and deposit it with the treasurer of his county or
corporation, taking his receipt therefor, who shall enter the
same upon his books as a credit to said superintendent of
schools.

3. All warrants drawn by district school boards of trustees
upon the public school fund of the state, as now provided by
law, shall, if approved by the county or corporation superin-
tendent, be taken up by him, and his own warrants issued
therefor, which shall be paid by the treasurer of the county
or corporation out of any state funds collected by him. The
county or corporation superintendent may issue his warrants
in such sums, not less than five dollars, in which case the
warrant shall be for the amount due as will best suit the
convenience of the payee; but in no case shall he issue his
warrants for an aggregate amount greater than the warrant
received by him from the auditor of public accounts, nor
shall the county or corporation treasurer pay any warrant
upon the state tund unless issued by the superintendent of
his county or corporation, nor an aggregate amount greater
than the said superintendent has credit for. Any superin-
tendent who shall issue warrants to an aggregate amount
greater than is provided by this section, and any treasurer
who shall pay any warrant upon the state fund aforesaid in
violation of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thou-
sand dollars.

4. At the annual meeting in August in each year, the
county school board shall compare the warrants issued by
each district board with those issued by the county or corpo-
ration superintendent, and report the result to the state
superintendent of schools.

5. The auditor of public accounts shall furnish to the
several superintendents of schools blank warrants, as fol-
lows:
Warrant No. ——.
Issued to ae
For services rendered as Teacher
in
district, public free school No. —,
for ——

No.——.
Payable out of state funds.

County of ; ——, 188—.
The treasurer of —— county
will pay to - or order

—— —— dollars, services as teacher

in — district, school
No. ——, for which this shall be
your voucher.

This certificate shall be paid by the county treasurer on whom drawn,
at its face value, in preference to other warrants, when
Signed by

Superintendent of public free schools ——-—— county.

6. Should there be found, upon the collection of the taxes, an
amount greater than the approximate amount hereinbefore
provided, due to the public free schools of the state for any
one year, then the excess due the schools shall be distrib-
uted as now provided by law, and nothing in this act shall
be construed to interfere with the same.

7. The auditor of public accounts is hereby directed and
required, on the first day of Apri eighteen hundred and
eighty-two, and each three months thereafter, to turn over
to the second auditor the sum of twenty-five thousand dol-
lars in currency out of the proceeds of the license taxes, and
continue to make these quarterly payments without further
order, demand, or requisition, until full payment shall have
been made of all arrearages due from capitation and property
taxes, and all other sources, by mandate of the constitution
and laws made in pursuance thereof, for the support of the
public free school system for the years eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-
four, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighteen hundred
and seventy.six, eightcen hundred and seventy-seven, cigh-
teen hundred and seventy-eight, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-nine, and cighteen hundred and eighty (witb legal
interest thereon computed from the end of each year with-
out compounding), which, when paid in as herein provided,
shall be annually appropriated amongst the several cities,
counties, and towns of the commonwealth as other school
funds are appropriated and supplied.

8. Chapter two hundred and forty-eight of the Acts of
Assembly of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-cight, and
chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the Acts of Assem-
bly of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight-nine, be and the
same arc hereby repealed.

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

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Chap. 264.—An ACT to incorporate Moore Street Industrial Institu-
tion, of the city of Richmond.

Approved Mareh 6, 1882.

Whereas a lot of land, with improvements, situated in the
city of Richmond, has been conveyed by deed, dated thir-
tieth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty,
to John Oliver, Richard ©. Hobson, James H. Johnston,
Mortimer Bowler, Temple Miles, and William H. Carter,
trustees, and the survivors of them upon the trusts, that the
said trustees should hold and apply the said land and improve-
ments for the uses and purposes of an educational institu-
tion, and that the proceeds of the rental or sale thereof
should be perpetually devoted to educational purposes, as
specified in said deed; and upon the further trust that the
trustees or the survivors of them should apply to the general
assembly of Virginia for an act of incorporation, and when,
and as soon as a charter of incorporation is obtained creating
and incorporating a technical school, to be called the Moore
Street Industrial Institution, the trustees, or their survivors,
should convey the property conveyed by said deed to the
said corporation, upon the trusts and conditions contained in
the said deed; and whereas one of the said trustees, Daniel
C. Eppes, has departed this life, and the other trustees above
named have applied for a charter of incorporation incorpo-
rating the following persons and their successors as such cor-
poration, to whom said property is to be conveyed upon the
trusts aforesaid ; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That John Oli-
rer, Richard C. Hobson, James H. Johnston, Mortimer Bow-
er, Temple Miles, and William H. Carter, be, and they are
hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name
ind style of The Moore Street Industrial Institution, and by
that name shall have perpetual succession and a common
eal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, with
power to purchase, receive, and hold to them and their suc-
cessors forever, any lands, tenements, rents, goods, and chat-
tels, of what kind soever, which may be purchased by or be
devised or given to them for the use of said industrial insti-
tution, and to lease, rent, sell, or otherwise dispose of the
same, in such manner as may seem most conducive to ita
interests: provided, that the lands, goods, and chattels so
authorized to be held shall not exceed in amount or value
four hundred thousand dollars: and provided, also, that not
less than a majority of said trustees, for the time being, shall
be sufficient to authorize the sale of any real estate belonging
to said Educational and Industrial institution.

2. The said trustees and their successors shall have power
to appoint teachers and such other officers as they may deem
pro er, and to make and establish, from time to time, such

y-laws, rules, and regulations, not contrary to the laws of
the state or of the United States, as they may judge proper
for the good government of said Educational and Industrial
institution. A majority of the trustees shall constitute a
board for the transaction of business; and any vacancy, or
vacancies, among the trustees, occasioned by death, resigna-
tion, or legal disability, shall be supplied by appointment of
the board. The said trustces, or their successors, shall have
power to increase their number to nine if they desire to do
so; and in that event they shall elect, by vote of the board,
the persons necessary to make such nine trustees. The said
board of trustees shall have power to create an executive
board, consisting of five of their members, which executive
board—any three of them being present—shall have authority
to transact all the ordinary business of the corporation,
except to purchase or convey real estate, the investment of
funds, the appointment or removal of officers and teachers,
and fixing their salarics; but the said board of trustees are
not required to create or appoint such executive board unless
they see fit to do so, in their sound discretion.

3. The said school is to be an educational and industrial
institution, and the property owned by it, so long as the said
corporation shall exist, is to be devoted to educational pur-
poses as aforesaid.

4, The treasurer shall receive all moneys accruing to the
said institution and property delivered to his care, and shall
pay or deliver the same to the order of the board. Before he
enters upon the discharge of his duties, he shall give bond,
with such security and in such penalty as the board may
direct, made payable to the trustees, for the time being, and
their successors, and conditioned for the faithful performance
of his duties, under such rules and, regulations as may be
adopted by the board; and it shall be lawful for the said
trustees, or for the Moore Street Industrial institution, suing
in the name of such trustees, or their successors, to obtain a
judgment on such bond, or for any special delinquency incur-
red by said treasurer, on motion in any court of record in
this commonwealth, against said treasurer and his surety, or

sureties, his or their executors,or administrators, upon giving
ten days’ notice of such motion.

5. The right is hereby reserved to the general assembly tc
moa or repeal this act at pleasure.

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

Chap. 264.—An ACT to pay to the public free schools the money set
apart by the constitution and laws for their benefit, and to repeal
chapter 248 of Acts of 1877-78, and chapter 177 of Acts of 1878-79.

Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the auditor
of public accounts is hereby required, immediately upon
receipt of the land and property books of the several com-
missioners of the revenue of the commonwealth, to make a
calculation of the gross sum of all the funds applicable to
public free school purposes for the ensuing year, of which
amount he shall report ninety per centum thereof to the
superintendent of public instruction as an approximate basis
for distribution, whereupon said superintendent of public
instruction shall at once make out and furnish to the auditor
of public accounts a distmbutive statement of the amounts
due the several counties and corporations in the state upon
this approximate basis. Upon receipt of such statement, the
auditor of public accounts shall issue his warrant upon the
treasurer of the state in favor of the superintendent of each
county or corporation, for the amount which each county or
corporation is entitled to receive under said statement, which
warrant, when endorsed by said county or corporation super-
intendent to the treasurer of his county or corporation, as
hereinafter provided by the second section of this act, shall
be paid by the treasurer of the state, or shall be accepted
from such county or corporation treasurer as cash in all set-
tlements for public revenue made by him with the auditor of
public accounts, so far as paid by the warrants hereinafter
provided tor.

2. The superintendent of schools of cach county or corpo-
ration shall, upon the receipt of such warrant, endorse the
same to and deposit it with the treasurer of his county or
corporation, taking his receipt therefor, who shall enter the
same upon his books as a credit to said superintendent of
schools.

3. All warrants drawn by district school boards of trustees
upon the public school fund of the state, as now provided by
law, shall, if approved by the county or corporation superin-
tendent, be taken up by him, and his own warrants issued
therefor, which shall be paid by the treasurer of the county
or corporation out of any state funds collected by him. The
county or corporation superintendent may issue his warrants
in such sums, not less than five dollars, in which case the
warrant shall be for the amount due as will best suit the
convenience of the payee; but in no case shall he issue his
warrants for an aggregate amount greater than the warrant
received by him from the auditor of public accounts, nor
shall the county or corporation treasurer pay any warrant
upon the state tund unless issued by the superintendent of
his county or corporation, nor an aggregate amount greater
than the said superintendent has credit for. Any superin-
tendent who shall issue warrants to an aggregate amount
greater than is provided by this section, and any treasurer
who shall pay any warrant upon the state fund aforesaid in
violation of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thou-
sand dollars.

4. At the annual meeting in August in each year, the
county school board shall compare the warrants issued by
each district board with those issued by the county or corpo-
ration superintendent, and report the result to the state
superintendent of schools.

5. The auditor of public accounts shall furnish to the
several superintendents of schools blank warrants, as fol-
lows:
Warrant No. ——.
Issued to ae
For services rendered as Teacher
in
district, public free school No. —,
for ——

No.——.
Payable out of state funds.

County of ; ——, 188—.
The treasurer of —— county
will pay to - or order

—— —— dollars, services as teacher

in — district, school
No. ——, for which this shall be
your voucher.

This certificate shall be paid by the county treasurer on whom drawn,
at its face value, in preference to other warrants, when
Signed by

Superintendent of public free schools ——-—— county.

6. Should there be found, upon the collection of the taxes, an
amount greater than the approximate amount hereinbefore
provided, due to the public free schools of the state for any
one year, then the excess due the schools shall be distrib-
uted as now provided by law, and nothing in this act shall
be construed to interfere with the same.

7. The auditor of public accounts is hereby directed and
required, on the first day of Apri eighteen hundred and
eighty-two, and each three months thereafter, to turn over
to the second auditor the sum of twenty-five thousand dol-
lars in currency out of the proceeds of the license taxes, and
continue to make these quarterly payments without further
order, demand, or requisition, until full payment shall have
been made of all arrearages due from capitation and property
taxes, and all other sources, by mandate of the constitution
and laws made in pursuance thereof, for the support of the
public free school system for the years eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-
four, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighteen hundred
and seventy.six, eightcen hundred and seventy-seven, cigh-
teen hundred and seventy-eight, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-nine, and cighteen hundred and eighty (witb legal
interest thereon computed from the end of each year with-
out compounding), which, when paid in as herein provided,
shall be annually appropriated amongst the several cities,
counties, and towns of the commonwealth as other school
funds are appropriated and supplied.

8. Chapter two hundred and forty-eight of the Acts of
Assembly of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-cight, and
chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the Acts of Assem-
bly of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight-nine, be and the
same arc hereby repealed.

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

Google
Chap. 264.—An ACT to incorporate Moore Street Industrial Institu-
tion, of the city of Richmond.

Approved Mareh 6, 1882.

Whereas a lot of land, with improvements, situated in the
city of Richmond, has been conveyed by deed, dated thir-
tieth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty,
to John Oliver, Richard ©. Hobson, James H. Johnston,
Mortimer Bowler, Temple Miles, and William H. Carter,
trustees, and the survivors of them upon the trusts, that the
said trustees should hold and apply the said land and improve-
ments for the uses and purposes of an educational institu-
tion, and that the proceeds of the rental or sale thereof
should be perpetually devoted to educational purposes, as
specified in said deed; and upon the further trust that the
trustees or the survivors of them should apply to the general
assembly of Virginia for an act of incorporation, and when,
and as soon as a charter of incorporation is obtained creating
and incorporating a technical school, to be called the Moore
Street Industrial Institution, the trustees, or their survivors,
should convey the property conveyed by said deed to the
said corporation, upon the trusts and conditions contained in
the said deed; and whereas one of the said trustees, Daniel
C. Eppes, has departed this life, and the other trustees above
named have applied for a charter of incorporation incorpo-
rating the following persons and their successors as such cor-
poration, to whom said property is to be conveyed upon the
trusts aforesaid ; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That John Oli-
rer, Richard C. Hobson, James H. Johnston, Mortimer Bow-
er, Temple Miles, and William H. Carter, be, and they are
hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name
ind style of The Moore Street Industrial Institution, and by
that name shall have perpetual succession and a common
eal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, with
power to purchase, receive, and hold to them and their suc-
cessors forever, any lands, tenements, rents, goods, and chat-
tels, of what kind soever, which may be purchased by or be
devised or given to them for the use of said industrial insti-
tution, and to lease, rent, sell, or otherwise dispose of the
same, in such manner as may seem most conducive to ita
interests: provided, that the lands, goods, and chattels so
authorized to be held shall not exceed in amount or value
four hundred thousand dollars: and provided, also, that not
less than a majority of said trustees, for the time being, shall
be sufficient to authorize the sale of any real estate belonging
to said Educational and Industrial institution.

2. The said trustees and their successors shall have power
to appoint teachers and such other officers as they may deem
pro er, and to make and establish, from time to time, such

y-laws, rules, and regulations, not contrary to the laws of
the state or of the United States, as they may judge proper
for the good government of said Educational and Industrial
institution. A majority of the trustees shall constitute a
board for the transaction of business; and any vacancy, or
vacancies, among the trustees, occasioned by death, resigna-
tion, or legal disability, shall be supplied by appointment of
the board. The said trustces, or their successors, shall have
power to increase their number to nine if they desire to do
so; and in that event they shall elect, by vote of the board,
the persons necessary to make such nine trustees. The said
board of trustees shall have power to create an executive
board, consisting of five of their members, which executive
board—any three of them being present—shall have authority
to transact all the ordinary business of the corporation,
except to purchase or convey real estate, the investment of
funds, the appointment or removal of officers and teachers,
and fixing their salarics; but the said board of trustees are
not required to create or appoint such executive board unless
they see fit to do so, in their sound discretion.

3. The said school is to be an educational and industrial
institution, and the property owned by it, so long as the said
corporation shall exist, is to be devoted to educational pur-
poses as aforesaid.

4, The treasurer shall receive all moneys accruing to the
said institution and property delivered to his care, and shall
pay or deliver the same to the order of the board. Before he
enters upon the discharge of his duties, he shall give bond,
with such security and in such penalty as the board may
direct, made payable to the trustees, for the time being, and
their successors, and conditioned for the faithful performance
of his duties, under such rules and, regulations as may be
adopted by the board; and it shall be lawful for the said
trustees, or for the Moore Street Industrial institution, suing
in the name of such trustees, or their successors, to obtain a
judgment on such bond, or for any special delinquency incur-
red by said treasurer, on motion in any court of record in
this commonwealth, against said treasurer and his surety, or

sureties, his or their executors,or administrators, upon giving
ten days’ notice of such motion.

5. The right is hereby reserved to the general assembly tc
moa or repeal this act at pleasure.

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