Chap. 121.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act
in force February 20, 1884, creating the county board of school com-
missioners, &c.

Approved November 27, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections five and six of the act in force February twenty,
eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to amend
and re-enact an act approved January eleventh, eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven, entitled an act to provide for the
appointment and removal of district school trustees, and to
repeal the fourth clause of the seventh section of the seventy-
eighth chapter of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$5. The said county board ‘of school commissioners shall
have power, and it shall be their duty, to declare vacant and.
to proceed to fill the office of any trustee in their respective
counties who fails to qualify, and deliver to the secretary of
the board his official oath, in the usual form, within thirty
days after he has been notified of his appointment; which
notification shall be promptly given by the secretary. The
board shall also vacate the office of any and every trustee
who fails to discharge the duties of his office according to
law. In order that the said board may properly determine
whether any such trustee has discharged his duties according
to law, it shall have power to issue summons to witnesses to
appear before it and to require the said trustee, or the re-
spective district board, to produce before it all of the books,
records and papers of said district board. The chairman of
the said county board of school commissioners shall have
power to administer an oath to any person summoned or
appearing before it as a witness.

§6. Any member of the said board may calla meeting by
notifying the other two. All proceedings shall be recorded
in abound volume, and such record book and postage and
stationery as may be necessary, shall be paid for from the
county school fund: provided the cost of the same shall not
exceed five dollars in any one year. The county superinten-
dent of schools, as the clerk of the county school electoral
board, as composed under the act approved January eleventh,
eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, is hereby required to
deliver all the records, books and papers in his custody as
such clerk, to the secretary of the said county board of school
commissioners. It shall be the duty of the secretary of said
board to furnish the board of education, and the superinten-
dent of schools for their county, with a list of school trustees,
and such other information as may be called for.

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