Chap. 280.—An ACT to constitute the town of Leesburg and adjoining territory
a@ separate school district, and to authorize the council of said town to ap-
point or elect the school trustees for said district.

Approved February 11, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
town of Leesburg, in the county of Loudoun, together with the terri-
tory adjacent thereto and embraced within the outer boundaries of
the tracts of land hereinafter set out in section two of this act, be,
and the same is hereby, constituted a separate school district to be
known as the school district for the town of Leesburg, by which
name it may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and
to be governed by the provisions of the general school law, except in
so far as they may be modified by the provisions of this act.

2. There shall be attached to the aforesaid town of Leesburg so
much of the outlying territory as is embraced within the outer boun-
daries of the following tracts of land, beginning with the farm of H.
J. Fadeley, where it joins the lands of C. A. Elmore; thence with
said outer boundary thereof to the outer lines of the lands of George
T. Metzger, George W.Survick, Mistress Joseph Rhodes, J. W. Foster,
Mistress J. F. Bowles, J. P. Brinton, R. T. Hempstone, Charles P.
Janney, the home place of the late T. W. Edwards’s estate, Henry
Schulke, Wallace George, Mistress Horatio Trundle, Mistress R. A.
Paxton, E. B. Harrison, Henry Harrison (Ball’s Bluff place), the lands
of John Thomas’s estate, Doctor C. S. Carter, Emil Schulke, C. A.
Elmore, to the said H. J. Fadeley’s land, the beginning, and any
other tracks omitted to be mentioned necessary to constitute a con-
tinuous outer boundary of said school district.

3. The council of the said town of Leesburg shall have power to
appoint three school trustees from any part of the aforesaid consoli-
dated school district to serve one, two, and three years, respectively,
and annually thereafter it shall appoint a school trustee for said dis-
trict to serve for three years. The said trustees shall have the power
to regulate and manage the schools in the said district, to appoint
teachers, fix their salaries, provide for all necessary expenses and
perform all the duties and be clothed with all the power now vested
in the trustees of school districts.

4. The said trustees of said district shall have authority and power
to use and control for school purposes the public school property in
said school district.

5. The aforesaid council of the town of Leesburg, if deemed neces-
ary, shall have power from time to time to levy and collect from the
sroperty holders of said school district such tax in addition to that
10w provided by law as may be required in the judgment of said
-ouncil for school purposes in said district; provided that the total
fax collected in any one year, including state, county, and district
jchool taxes, shall not exceed five mills on the dollar. Said tax to
be collected and disbursed in the same manner as is now provided
by law for the collection and disbursement of district school taxes.

6. The said school trustees, as soon after their appointment and
organization as practicable, shall cause a census to be taken of the
school population of the said district in legal form, and report the
3ame to the superintendent of public instruction and county super-
intendent of public schools; and thereafter all state and county
school funds to which said district shall be entitled shall be appor-
tioned accordingly.

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