Chap. 237.—An ACT to authorize the school board of Catalpa district, in Cul-
peper county, to borrow money.

Approved February 5, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
school board of Catalpa school and magisterial district of Culpeper
county be authorized to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding two
thousand dollars, to run not exceeding ten years, and bearing inter-
est not exceeding six per contum per annum, and to be taken up at
any time ufter two years at the discretion of the board, for the pur-
pose of funding the indebtedness of said Catalpa school and magis-
terial district incurred in the erection of a substantial brick build-
ing, to be used for school purposes in the education of colored chil-
dren of said district of school age (five to twenty-one years of age),
the old school for colored children having been destroyed by fire in
eighteen hundred and ninety-five. The board of supervisors of Cul-
peper county are authorized and empowered to levy a tax not ex-
ceeding five cents on the one hundred dollars of assessable property
of said district, a special fund to be appropriated annually to the
payment of the interest on the said bonds and the extinguishment
of the principal until the whole shall be paid.

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