Chap. 47.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 22, 1892
entitled an act to amend and re-enact clause 4of section 6 of an act approved
February 24, 1874, entitled an act to give effect to a compromise of the liti-
gation in respect to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller,
deceased, and to establish the manual labor school provided for in the 25th
clause of said will, as amended by acts approved on April 2, 1887, and on Feb-
ruary 19, 1884, respectively.

Approved January 11, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
fourth clause of section one of an act approved February twenty-
fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act to give
effect to a compromise and litigation in respect to the construction
and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and to establish
the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth clause of
the said will, as amended by an act approved the second day of April,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and as further amended by an
act approved on the nineteenth day of February, eighteen hundred
and eighty-four, and as further amended by an act approved on the
the twenty-ninth of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be
amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Clause 4. The corporation created by clause one shall hold the
legal title to all the property dedicated by the will of Samuel Miller,
and by the compromise aforesaid, to the said manual labor school,
and all other property hereby acquired by it for the use and benefit
of said school. The board of education shall discharge, in respect
to the said fund, all the duties devolved, and shall exercise all the
powers conferred by said twenty-fifth clause of said will upon the
board of the literary fund. The second auditor shall discharge all
the duties devolved by said clause upon him, and is hereby author-
ized to receive the compensation thereby provided. The county
court of Albemarle is authorized and required, sitting in term, to
discharge, by-ordere-ortered ip a record-book to be kept by the clerk
of said bourt-apecially fér-thgat:purpose, all the duties devolved and
exercise all the powers -conférred by the said twenty-fifth clause upon
the coppty cdurt df Saic.cgunty. ..The charges and expenses attend-
ing the -establishinent aud support of said school, including the
purchase of land (should any ‘be purchased), the erection of build-
ings, the feeding, clothing, and education of the pupils, the charges
for medical attendance upon them, and everything incident thereto
and connected with the said school, shall, when examined, allowed
and certified by the said county court of Albemarle county and ap-
proved by the board of education, be paid by the said board of edu-
cation out of the income and profits of the trust fund created by the
twenty-fifth clause of said will. The record-book aforesaid shall be
provided from the fund, and the clerk of the said court shall receive
for keeping the same, fees allowed by law for orders in the order-book
of said court, to be paid out of the said income and profits as other
claims are provided to be paid. And for the duties imposed upon
the said county court, and for the services required to be rendered
by the judge thereof, every such judge shall receive compensation in
addition to his regular salary, and the amount of such compensation
shall be fixed by the said board of education for each year, com-
mencing with the date of approval of this act, and shall be paid by
the said board, out of said income and profits, in the manner pro-
vided for the payment of other claims, as a part of the expenses ne-
cessary for the execution of the trust; but the same shall never, in
any case, exceed the sum of six hundred dollars per annum. And
the district school trustees of the respective school districts of the
said county and of the city of Charlottesville shall meet semi-an-
nually on the Tuesday after the third Monday in January and July,
or if from any cause they fail to meet on such days, or either of
them, at such times thereafter as the county court may appoint, at
the school, unless some other place of meeting within said county or
city be fixed by them, and select and designate, subject to appoint-
ment by the county court, as provided for in the twenty-fifth clause
of said will, as pupils of the said school, those described in the said
clause and required by the testator to be so selected. At such meeting
a majority of all the school trustees for said county and city shall
constitute a quorum for business, and a majority failing to attend,
those present may adjourn from day to day, or from time to time,
until a quorum shall attend. The county superintendent of schools
and the clerk of the county court shall be (ex-officio) the chairman
and secretary, respectively, of such meetings, but those officers, or
either of them, being absent, the meeting may elect from its mem-
bers a chairman or secretary, or both, pro tempore. The said clerk,
acting as secretary, shall have no vote, and the superintendent of
schools, acting as chairman, shall vote only in case of a tie. The
secretary shall keep a minute and accurate account of the proceed-
ings in a well-bound book, which shall be kept by him, except when
needed at the semi-annual meeting of the trustees, in the county
court clerk’s office, open to inspection in the same manner as the
other records in said office. To the terms of the county court of
Albemarle immediately succeeding such meetings the said trustees
shall have written reports of the pupils selected by them, specifying
the lengtb of time they shall respectively continue in the school.
Such reports may be made by their chairman and secretary. The
pupils so selected, when appointed by the county court, shall be sub-
ject to the discipline and to all the rules and regulations adopted
for the government of the school, and may at any time be honorably
discharged or expelled for cause by the said county court, or hy the
judge thereof in vacation, on the recommendation of the visitors of
the said school. For the services required by this act, the superin-
tendent of schools, acting as chairman, and each trustee, shall re-
ceive five dollars for each semi-annual meeting actually attended,
and the secretary shall receive ten dollars per annum, to be paid out
of the income and profits of the fund in manner provided for the
payment of other claims.
2. This act shall be in force from the date of its passage.