Chap. 99.—An ACT to return to the public free schools a portion of
the moneys diverted therefrom.

Approved April 21, 1882,

Whereas the board of public works of Virginia, by con-
tract dated February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
one, sold to U. L. Boyce and F. J. Kimball, acting for them-
selves and their associates, all the rights, title, ant interest of
the siate of Virginia in, or to, or against the Atlantic, Mis-
sissippi and Ohio railroad company, by virtue of the cove-
nant or mortgage executed by said company, dated Decem-
ber twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the
sum of five hundred thousand dollars, upon certain terms as
to payment, and subject to the ratification of the general
assembly ; and whereas afterwards, to-wit, on the tenth da
of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, Clarence ih
Clark, on behalf of himself and his associates, including said
Boyce and Kimball, became the purchasers of the said Atlan-
tic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad at a foreclosure sale thereof,
made under decree of the ninth day of May, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-nine, in the United States circuit court for
the eastern district of Virginia, in the cause of Frances
Skiddy and others, trustees, versus the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad company and others, therein pending, and
said parties proceeded to reorganize said railroad company
under the name of the Norfolk and Western railroad com-
pany, whereby, and by virtue of sundry assignments, the bene-
fits of said contract of February tenth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-one, now enure and belong to said Norfolk and
Western railroad company; and whereas by an act passed
— day of ——, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the gen-
ral assembly of Virginia has ratified and‘confirmed said con-
tract, and allowed the Norfolk and Western railroad company
until the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-
two, to complete the payment of said five hundred thousand
dollars to the board of public works of Virginia; and
whereas out of the revenues assessed for the years eighteen
hundred and seventy to eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,
inclusive, a sum amounting to one million five hundred and
four thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-
seven cents, and dedicated by sections seven and eight of
article eight of the constitution of Virginia, to the public
free school fund, was diverted to other purposes prior to the
year eighteen hundred and eighty, as appears by reference to
senate document number twelve, Senate Journal, and so
forth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine—eighty, whereof
np to the present time the sum of two hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars due to the public free school fund, have
been restored to said funds; and whereas the general assem-
bly conceives it to be its paramount duty, under the consti-
tution, to restore to said public free school fund as speedily
as possible, the amount so as aforesaid from it diverted;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That whenever
the said Norfolk and Western railroad company shall pay
unto said board of public works the sum of five hundred
thousand dollars, aforesaid, or any part thereof, it shall be
the duty of the board of public works to pay the sum of
four hundred thousand dollars, part thereof, into the treasury
to the credit of the public free school fund, and subject to
the draft of the state board of education, at the rate of one
hundred thousand dollars per annum, to be expended by said
board for purposes of public education, and apportioned
ratably among the school districts of this state as current
revenue for similar purposes are apportioned.

2. The remaining one hundred thousand dollars of the sum
so paid, shall be paid into the treasury on special deposit,
subject to the future action of the general assembly, the
same being intended for the erection and maintenance of a
normal school for colored teachers to be hereafter established.

3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
repealed. )

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 99.—An ACT to return to the public free schools a portion of
the moneys diverted therefrom.

Approved April 21, 1882,

Whereas the board of public works of Virginia, by con-
tract dated February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
one, sold to U. L. Boyce and F. J. Kimball, acting for them-
selves and their associates, all the rights, title, ant interest of
the siate of Virginia in, or to, or against the Atlantic, Mis-
sissippi and Ohio railroad company, by virtue of the cove-
nant or mortgage executed by said company, dated Decem-
ber twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the
sum of five hundred thousand dollars, upon certain terms as
to payment, and subject to the ratification of the general
assembly ; and whereas afterwards, to-wit, on the tenth da
of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, Clarence ih
Clark, on behalf of himself and his associates, including said
Boyce and Kimball, became the purchasers of the said Atlan-
tic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad at a foreclosure sale thereof,
made under decree of the ninth day of May, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-nine, in the United States circuit court for
the eastern district of Virginia, in the cause of Frances
Skiddy and others, trustees, versus the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad company and others, therein pending, and
said parties proceeded to reorganize said railroad company
under the name of the Norfolk and Western railroad com-
pany, whereby, and by virtue of sundry assignments, the bene-
fits of said contract of February tenth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-one, now enure and belong to said Norfolk and
Western railroad company; and whereas by an act passed
— day of ——, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the gen-
ral assembly of Virginia has ratified and‘confirmed said con-
tract, and allowed the Norfolk and Western railroad company
until the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-
two, to complete the payment of said five hundred thousand
dollars to the board of public works of Virginia; and
whereas out of the revenues assessed for the years eighteen
hundred and seventy to eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,
inclusive, a sum amounting to one million five hundred and
four thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-
seven cents, and dedicated by sections seven and eight of
article eight of the constitution of Virginia, to the public
free school fund, was diverted to other purposes prior to the
year eighteen hundred and eighty, as appears by reference to
senate document number twelve, Senate Journal, and so
forth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine—eighty, whereof
np to the present time the sum of two hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars due to the public free school fund, have
been restored to said funds; and whereas the general assem-
bly conceives it to be its paramount duty, under the consti-
tution, to restore to said public free school fund as speedily
as possible, the amount so as aforesaid from it diverted;
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That whenever
the said Norfolk and Western railroad company shall pay
unto said board of public works the sum of five hundred
thousand dollars, aforesaid, or any part thereof, it shall be
the duty of the board of public works to pay the sum of
four hundred thousand dollars, part thereof, into the treasury
to the credit of the public free school fund, and subject to
the draft of the state board of education, at the rate of one
hundred thousand dollars per annum, to be expended by said
board for purposes of public education, and apportioned
ratably among the school districts of this state as current
revenue for similar purposes are apportioned.

2. The remaining one hundred thousand dollars of the sum
so paid, shall be paid into the treasury on special deposit,
subject to the future action of the general assembly, the
same being intended for the erection and maintenance of a
normal school for colored teachers to be hereafter established.

3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
repealed. )

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.