Chap. 585.—An ACT to provide for the establishment of a high school for Bed-
ford county.

Approved March 8, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
county superintendent of schools for Bedford county and the clerks
of the several district school boards of Bedford county, and their
successors in office, be, and are hereby, constituted a board of man-
agers, of which the county superintendent shall be president, with
power to establish a high school at or near Bedford City, in which
shall be taught a complete academic course of study, free of tuition
charges, to advanced white pupils of Bedford county, and to such
advanced white pupils of other counties as may be designated by the
said board of managers.

2. The board of managers provided for in section one shall be, and
are hereby, made a body. corporate, with the corporate name of Bed-
ford high school, with such powers and duties as are conferred by law
on district school boards, and shall have power to prescribe the
course of study in such school and to make such regulations as are
necessary to promote its efficiency, subject to the approval of the su-
perintendent of public instruction.

3. The board of managers shall have power to establish a boarding
department in connection with said school, and provide for the man-
agement thereof: provided that no part of the current expenses of
such boarding department shall be defrayed out of public funds.

4, The board of managers shall, on or before the first day of July
of each year, file with the county superintendent an estimate show-
ing the amount of money needed for the pay of teachers in said high
school for the next school year, and also an estimate of the amount
necessary to provide buildings, furniture, apparatus, fuel and otber
necessary expenses of said high school; and it shall be the duty of
the said superintendent to set apart from the county school fund, for
pay of teachers in said high school, the amount called for in said
estimate, not to exceed the amount that will be realized from a tax
of two cents on the hundred dollars of property, real and personal,
in said county, including railroads; and the board of supervisors of
Bedford county shal] make such levy on the property of the county,
real, personal and railroads, including the town of Bedford City, as
may be necessary to provide the amount called for in said estimate,
to provide buildings, furniture, apparatus, fuel and other necessary
expenses: provided such levy shall not exceed five cents on the hun-
dred dollars of value of such property.

5. The board of managers may make a charge against the several
school districts of the state from which pupils are received in said
high school, not exceeding one and one-half dollars per month for the
districts of Bedford county, and two dollars and fifty cents per month
for pupils from other counties of the state, which tuition fees shall be
paid, upon notification of the amount, by warrant drawn by district
school boards, payable to Bedford high school, which warrants, as in
the case of district school boards, shall be deposited with the county
treasurer and his receipt taken therefor.
6. All funds received in accordance with the provisions of sections
four and five shall be paid out by the county treasurer on warrants
signed by the president of the board of managers and attested by its
clerk.

7. The board of managers shall make such reports to, and settle-
ments with, the county school board as are required of district school
boards.

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