CHAP. 495.—An ACT to amend and re-enact clause 4 of section
1 of an act approved February 24, 1874, entitled an act to give
effect toa compromise of the litigation in respect to the con-
struction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and
to establish the manual labor school provided f for in the twen-
ty-fifth clause of said will as amended by acts approved on the
2d day of April, 1877, and on the 19th day of February, 1884,
respectively.

Approved February 29, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the fourth clause of section one of an act approved
February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
entitled “an act to give effect to a compromise of the liti-
gation in respect to the construction and effect of the will
of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish the manual
labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth clause of the
said will” as amended by an act approved the second day
of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and as fur-
ther amended by an act approved on the nineteenth day
of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Clause four.—The corporation created by clause one
shall hold the legal title to all the property dedicated by
the will of Samuel Miller, and by the compromise afore-
said, to the said manual labor school, and all other pro-
perty hereby acquired by it, for the use and benefit of
said school. The board of education shall discharge in
respect to the said fund all the duties devolved and shall
exercise all the powers conferred by said twenty-fifth
clause of said will upon the board of the literary fund.
The second auditor shall discharge all the duties devolved
by said clause upon him, and is hereby authorized to re-
ceive the compensation thereby provided.

The county court of Albemarle is authorized and re-
quired, sitting in term, to discharge, by orders entered in
a record book to be kept by the clerk of said court specially
for that purpose, all the duties devolved and exercise all
the powers conferred by the said twenty-fifth clause upon
the county court of said county.

The charges and expenses attending the establishment
and support of said school, including the purchase of land
(should any be purchased), the erection of buildings, the
feeding, clothing and education of the pupils, the charges
for medical attendance upon them, and everything inci-
dent thereto and connected with the said school shall, when
examined, allowed and certified by the said county court of
Albemarle county and approved by the board of education,
be paid by the said board of education out of the income
and profits of the trust fund created by the twenty-fifth
clause of the said will. The record-book aforesaid shall
be provided from the fund, and the clerk of the said court
shall receive for keeping the same fees allowed by law for
orders in the order-book of said court, to be paid out of
the said income and profits as other claims are provided
to be paid.

And for the duties imposed upon the said county court,
and for the services required to be rendered by the judge
thereof,every such judge shall receive compensation in addi-
tion to his regular salary, and the amount of such compen-
sation shall be fixed by the said board of education for
each year, commencing with the date of the approval of
this act, and shall be paid by the said board out of said
income and profits in the manner provided for the pay-
ment of other claims, as a part of the expenses necessary
for the execution of the trust; but the same shall never, in
any case, exceed the sum of six hundred dollars per an-
num.

And the district school trustees of the respective school
districts of the said county and of the city of Charlottes-
ville shall meet semi-annually on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in January and July, orif from any cause
they fail to meet on such days, or either of them, at such
times thereafter as the county court may appoint, at the
school, unless some other place of meeting within said
county or city be fixed by them, and select and designate,
subject to appointment by the county court, as provided
for in the twenty-fifth clause of said will, as pupils of the
said school those described in the said clause and required
by the testator to be so selected. At such meeting a ma-
jority of all the school trustees for said county and city
shall constitute a quorum for business, and, a majority
failing to attend, those present may adjourn from day to
day, or from time to time, until a quorum shall attend.

The county superintendent of schools and the clerk of
the county court shall be (ex-officio) the chairman and
secretary, respectively, of such meetings, but those officers,
or either of them, being absent, the meeting may elect
from its members a chairman or secretary, or both, pro
tem. The said clerk, acting as secretary, shall have no
vote, and the superintendent of schools, acting as chair-
man, shall vote only in case of a tie. The secretary shall
keep a minute and accurate account of the proceedings at
all of said meetings in a well-bound book, which shall be
kept by him, except when needed at the semi-annual meet-
ings of the trustees, in the county court clerk’s office, open
to inspection in the same manner as the other records in
said office. To the termsof the county court of Albemarle,
immediately succeeding such meetings, the said trustees
shall have written reports of the pupils selected by them,
specifying the length of time they shall respectively con-
tinue in the school. Such reports may be made by their
chairman and secretary.

The pupils so selected, when appointed by the county
court, shall be subject to the discipline and to all the
rules and regulations adopted for the government of the
school, and may, at any time, be honorably discharged, or
be expelled for cause, by the said county court, or by the
judge thereof in vacation, on the recommendation of the
visitors of the said school. For the services required by
this act, the superintendent of schools, acting as chair-
man, and each trustee, shall receive five dollars for each
semi-annual meeting actually attended, and the secretary
shall receive ten dollars per annum, to be paid out of the
income and profits of the fund in the manner provided
for the payment of other claims.

2. This act shall be in force from the date of its passage.