CHaP. 311.—An ACT for the establishment of a State Female Normal
School.

Approved March 7, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
there shall be established, as hereinafter provided, a normal
school expressly for the training and education of white
female teachers for public schools.

2. The school shall be under the supervision, management
and government of W. H. Ruffner, J. L. M. Curry, John B.
Minor, R. M. Manly, L. R. Holland, John GL. Buchanan, L.
A. Michie, F. N. Watkins, S. C. Armstrong, W. B. Taliaferro,
George O. Conrad, W. E. Gaines, and W. W. Herbert, as a
board of trustees. In case of any vacancy, caused by death,
resiynation, or otherwise, the successor shall be appointed by
the governor. The superintendent of public instruction shall
be ex-officio a member of the board of trustees.

3. Said trustees shall, from time to time, make all! needful
rules and regulations for the good government and manage-
ment of the school, to fix the number and compensation of
teachers and others to be employed in the school, and to pre-
scribe the preliminary examination and conditions on which
students shall be received and instructed therein. They may
appoint an executive committee, of whom the superintendent
shall be one, for the care, management and government of
said school, under the rules and regulations prescribed as
aforesaid. The trustees shall annually transmit to the gover-
nor a full account of their proceedings under this act, together
with a report of the progress, condition, and prospects of the
school.

4. The trustees shall establish said school at Farmville, in
the county of Prince Edward: provided said town shall cause
to be conveyed to the state of Virginia, by proper deed, the
property in said town known as the Farmville female college;
and if the said property be- not so conveyed, then the said
trustees shall establish said school in such other place as shall
convey to the state suitable grounds and buildings for the
purposes of said school.

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9. [ach city of five thousand inhabitants, and each county
in the state shall be entitled to one pupil, and one for each
additional representative in the house of delegates above one,
who shall receive gratuitous instruction. The trustees shall
prescribe rules for the selection of such pupils and for their

examination, and shall require each pupil selected, to give
satisfactory evidence of an intention to teach in the public
schools of the state fur at least two years after leaving the
said normal school.

6. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated
to defray the expense of establishing and continuing said
school. ‘The moncy shall be expended for that purpose under
the direction of the trustees, upon whose requisition the
governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the
treasury.

7. There shall be appropriated annually out of the treasury
of the state, the sum of ten thousand dollars to pay incidental
expenses, the salaries of officers and teachers, and to main-
tain the efficiency of the school, said sum to be paid out of
the public free school fund: provided however, that the com-
monwealth will not in any instance be responsible for any
debt contracted or expenditure made by the institution, in
excess Of the appropriation herein made.

8. The superintendent of public instruction shall render
to the second auditor an annual account of the expenditures
under this act.

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