Chap. 111.—An ACT to abolish School district No. 8 in the town of Manassas,
Prince William county.

Approved January 23, 1896.

Whereas the council of the town of Manassas, on the first day of
September, eighteen hundred ninety, by an ordinance declared the
territory within the limits of the said town of Manassas a separate
schoo] district by the name and title of the school district of the
town of Manassas, number eight, under section fourteen hundred
and sixty-nine of the code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven ;
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Whereas the said council of the said town of Manassas, on the
twenty-third day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, passed
an ordinance, repealing the said ordinance enacted on the first day
of September, eighteen hundred and ninety, and a doubt arising as
to the power of the said council of the said town to repeal the said
ordinances passed on the first day of September, eighteen hundred
and ninety: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
said ordinance passed by the council of the said town of Manassas
on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety, declar-
ing the territory within the corporate limits of the said town of
Manassas the school district of the town of Manassas, number
eight, be, and the same is, hereby repealed, and that the said terri-
tory embraced within the corporate limits of the said town of
Manassas is hereby declared to be a part of the Manassas school
district, number five.

2. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of the school dis-
trict of the town of Manassas, number eight, shall turn over to the
trustees of the Manassas school district, number five, all books and
papers in their custody as euch trustees.

3. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of the Manassas
school district, number five, are hereby empowered to collect all
moneys levied by the said council of the said town of Manassas for
district school purposes for the school district of the town of Manas-
sas, number eight, and the said trustees of Manassas school, number
five, are directed, after discharging all debts contracted for district
echool purposes by the said school district of the town of Manassas,
number eight, to turn over the surplus of the said money to the coun-
cil of the town of Manassas to be used by the said council of the said
town for corporation purposes.

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