Chap. 374.—An ACT to provide for authorizing county and city school
boards to sell or exchange public school property.

Approved May 21, 1887.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly ot Virginia, That
the county school board of any county, or the city school
board of any city, may file their petition in the circuit court
of any city or county, or the corporation or hustings court
of any city, or before the judge thereof in vacation, asking
leave to sell or exchange any public school property which
in their judgment it is desirable to sell or exchange, and upon
evidence being produced before the court or the judge thereof
in vacation that such sale or exchange is proper to be made,
the said court or judge thereof in vacation shall make such
order as may be proper, providing for the sale of said pro-
perty, or that the same may be exchanged, and in case of
the sale of any property for the proper investment of the
proceeds of the same, the court may make such order as
to costs as to It may seem proper.

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