CHAP. 373.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to pay
to the public free schools the money set apart by the constitution
aid laws for their benefit, and to repeal chapter 177 of the Acts of
1878-’9, approved March 6, 1882. |

Approved March 3, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act entitled an act to pay to the public free
schools the money set apart by the constitution and laws for
their benefit, and to repeal chapter one hundred and seventy-
seven of acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and sev-
enty-nine, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
two, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the auditor of public accounts is hereby required, on or before
the fifteenth day of September, in each year, to make a calcu-
lation of the gross sum of all funds applicable to public free
school purposes for the ensuing year, which calculation shall
be based upon the land and property books of the several com-
missioners of the revenue of the commonwealth for said year;
and when said books have not been received in time, he shall
base said calculation upon the commissioners’ books of the pre-
ceding year. The auditor of public accounts shall report to the
superintendent of public instruction, not later than the fifteenth
day of September, in each year, ninety per centum of the gross
sum of all the funds found to be applicable to public free school
purposes for the current year, as an approximate basis for dis-
tribution; whereupon, said superintendent of public instruction
shall at once make out and furnish to the auditor of public ac-
counts a distributive statement of the amounts due the several
counties and corporations in the state, upon this approximate
basis. Upon receipt of such statement, the auditor of public
accounts shall issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the state,
in favor of the superintendent of each county or corporation,
for the amount which each county or corporation is entitled to
receive under such statement; which warrant, when endorsed
by said county or corporation superintendent to the treasurer
of his county or corporation, as hereinafter provided by the
second section of this act, shall be paid by the treasurer of the
state, or shall be accepted from such county or corporation
treasurer as cash in all settlements for public revenue made by
him with the auditor of public agcounts, so far as paid by the
warrants hereinafter provided for.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

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