Chap. 275.—An ACT to authorize the county school board of Nelson county to
apportion the district school tax levied upon railroad and ‘telegraph com-
panies,

Approved February 11, 1896,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That, in
the county of Nelson, it shall be lawful for and the duty of the county
superintendent of schools for the said county, in preparing the scheme
for apportioning school funds among the school districts of said
county, as he is required to do by the second subdivision of section
fourteen hundred and thirty-nine ofthe code of Virginia, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eeven, to aggregate the whole amount of tax
levied on the railroad and telegraph companies in the several school
districts for school district purposes, and then apportion the whole
amount of such tax among the three several school districts of said
county upon the basis of the school population in each, whenever he
shall be required to do so by a resolution of the county school
board concurred in by a majority of the whole of said board.

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