Chap. 551.—An ACT to provide for the building of schoolhouses in
the sub-school district in the county of Dickenson.

Approved March 19, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be the duty of the chairman of the board of directors
of each sub-school district in the county of Dickenson, to
cause to be built in each of said sub-school districts a school-
house, such as the law now requires to be built, in which to
teach the public free schools of said sub-district.

2. And forthe purpose of enabling the said chairman to
carry out the provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for such
chairman to cause all persons residing in his said sub-school
district, who are not exempt from working on public roads,
to meet at such times and places as may be designated by
said chairman, with all necessary tools, for the purpose of
working on and building said schoolhouses.

3. Any person failing to attend and work at such times
and places as may be required of them by said chairman,
shall be subject to the same fines and penalties as are now
imposed by law on delinquent road hands for failing to work
on public roads, which fines shall be collected and paid over
to such chairman, in the same manner that road fines are
now collected and paid over to overseers of roads: which
fines, when so received by such chairman, shall by him be
used in payment for work and matcrial in the erection of
said houses: provided that no person shall be compelled to
work on any schoolhouse more than ten days in any one
year: and provided further, that this act shall not take effect
unless the same be adopted and ratified by the board of
supervisors and by the county school board of said county.

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