Chap. 491.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of chapter 78 of
the Code of 1873, in relation to teachers institutes.

Approved March 17, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-seven, chapter seventy-eight of the Code of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§47. The board of education shall have power, at its dis-
cretion, to invite and encourage meetings of teachers at con-
venient places, and to provide addresses to be made before
such meetings touching the processes of school organization,
discipline and instruction: provided that no public money
shall be expended for the purposes of this section; that no
such meeting of teachers shall be held during the period of
the year when the schools are or should be open; that no
teachers shall be compelled to attend such meetings, nor be
paid for attendance.

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