Chap. 16.—An ACT to empower the schoo! board of Battletown district,
Clarke county, to borrow money to erect a school-house.

Approved December 18, 1895.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Battletown district school board of Clarke county be, and is hereby,
authorized and empowered to borrow, upon the faith and credit of
said Battletown district, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars,
and to issue bonds for the same, bearing interest at a rate not exceed-
ing 81x per centum, payable annually or semi-annually, for the purpose
of erecting and furnishing in the town of Berryville, a school-house
for the public free school, known as the Berryville high-school ;
said bonds to be issued in such amounts and payable at such time
or times, upon such conditions as said board may see fit to impore.
The board of supervisors of said county of Clarke, at the request of
said district school board, shall embrace in its annual district
(Battletown) Jevy a sum sufficient to pay the annual interest on
said bonds and to provide a sinking fund, which shall be held and
applied by said district board to the payment of the principal of
said bonds; provided, however, that said levy by the supervisors
shall not exceed ten cents on every hundred dollars of taxable
property within said Battletown district.

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