Chap. 643.—An ACT to authorize and empower the school board of Battle-
town district, Clarke county, to borrow money to erect a school-house.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Battletown district school board of Clarke county be, and is hereby,
authorized and empowered to borrow, upon the faith and credit of said
Battletown district, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, and to
issue bonds for the same, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six
per centum, payable annually or semi-annually, for the purpose of erect-
ing and furnishing in the town of Berryville, a school-house for the
public free school known as the Berryville high school, said bonds to be
issued in such amounts and payable at such time or times upon such
conditions as said board may see fit to impose.

2. The board of supervisors of said county of Clarke, at the request of
said district school board, shall embrace in its annual district (Battle-
town) levy a sum sufficient to pay the annual interest on said bonds
and to provide a sinking fund which shall be held and applied by said
district board to the payment of the principal of said bonds: provided,
however, that said levy by the supervisors shall not exceed two cents
on every hundred dollars of taxable property within said Battletown
district.

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