Chap. 132.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to tax-payers in
cities and towns the right of public school education for their chil-
dren, approved March 17, 1884.

Approved November 27, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act to amend and re-enact an act entited an act to secure
to the tax-payers in cities and towns the right of public
school education for their children, approved March seven-
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
2. That it shall be lawful for any person who is a tax-
payer and citizen of Virginia, in any town, county, or school
district of the commonwealth, and who is not a resident of
said town, county or school district, to send his children to
any public free school in said town, county or school district,
subject to the laws regulating public free schools in said
town, county or school district, as though said tax-payer
resided in said town, county or school district. And any
guardian who is a tax-payer for his ward or wards as afore-
said, shall be entitled to the privileges above named for his
ward or wards, if citizens of Virginia: provided that children
whose parents or guardian do not reside in any city of the
commonwealth shall be received into the public schools of such
city, only upon such terms and conditions as may be pre-
scribed by the school board of such city.

3. This act shall go into effect on the first day of July,
eighteen hundred and eighty-five.