Chap. 310.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to constitute the town of
Salem and adjoining territory a separate school district.

Approved February 9, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
passed February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, en-
titled an act to constitute the town of Salem and adjoining territory
a separate school district, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

& 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the town
of Salem, in the county of ‘Roanoke, together with the territory to he
attached thereto as hereinafter provided, shall constitute a separate
school district, to be known as the Salem school district, and shall he
subject to all 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 town aforesaid, for public free
school purposes, so much of the surrounding country as is embraced
within the following described boundaries: Commencing at Roanoke
river where the outer or western boundary of the lands of Mistress
Lucy Jolinson, her children, or their vendees intersects the same, and
running with said boundary to the macadamized road; thence up sul-
phur spring road to the northern boundary of the lands of J. J. Hopper;
thence along the northern boundaries of the lands of said Hopper,
George H. Landon, Mistress C. P. Chapman, and Alexander Wilson;
thence easterly in a straight line (including the whole of the lands
eut by said line) to Lick branch at Richmond Freeman’s, on the Cove
road; thence along Cove road in a southerly course to the southern boun-
dary of said Freeman’s land; thence with said boundary to the Lick
branch, and with said branch to the lands of John Gish; thence along
the northern boundaries of said Gish and of Joseph Stoutamire to
Mason’s creck ; thence down Mason’s creek to Roanoke river; thence up
Roanoke river to the beginning, and including the outer boundaries
of any lands omitted to be mentioned, that may be necessary to con-
stitute a continuous outer boundary of said school district.

§ 3. In order to provide for the support of the public free schools
in said school district, it shall be the dutv of the council of the town
of Salem, upon the estimates that may be furnished by the school board
of said district, or so much thereof as said council may allow, to levy
a pro rata tax on all real and personal property within the corporate
limits of the town of Salem, and to immediately certify the rate of tax
determined upon to the board of supervisors of Roanoke county, who
shall levy the same rate of tax on all the property, real and personal,
in said district without the corporate limits of said town: provided, that
the tax authorized by this section, together with any county school tax
levied in said school district, shall not exceed in any one year five mills
on the dollar.

The tax assessed and collected under this section shall be known as
the district tax and shall be expended within the said school district.
The said tax shall be collected and disbursed by the county treasurer
of Roanoke county as county and district school taxes are collected.

S 4. It shall be the duty of the said council of the town of Salem to
provide funds for the purchase of real estate, whenever in the Judgment
of the said council the same shall be necessary, and for the erection ~*
suitable school buildings, and for these purposes the said council shall
have power to borrow money from time to time, and for the payment of
the same it shall have power to execute and issue bonds of said town,
to be called public school building bonds, either coupon or registered,
and in such denomination as said council mav determine, and bearing
a rate of interest not execeding six per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually, which bonds shall be payable at such time or times
on or before the expiration of twenty years from their date as the said
council may determine: provided, that the aggregate amount of the
bonds outstanding under this section shall not exceed at anv one time
six thousand dollars. To provide for the payment of the interest and
principal of said bonds when due, and a sinking fund, it shall be lawful
for the said council to set apart such portion of the district tax provided
for in the third section of this act as the said council may determine
upon, and the said portion so set apart shall be paid by the treasurer
of Roanoke county to the treasurer of the town of Salem, to be ap-
plied as hereinbefore provided for.

§ 5. The title to said property shall be vested in the said school board
of the Salem school district, and held by it as a corporation, in pursu-
ance of section fourteen hundred and sixty- eight of the code.

§ 6. The school board of the said district shall, on or before the
fifteenth day of August of each year, furnish to the council of the town
of Salem an itemized account of their receipts and disbursements
under this act.

§ 7. The public free schools of said district shall be free to all per-
sons between the ages of five and twenty-one years, residing within said
district, and children whose parents or guardians do not reside in said
district, whether said parents or guardians are tax-payers in said dis-
trict or not, shall be received into said schools only upon such terms
and conditions as may be prescribed by said school board.

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