Chap. 193.—An ACT to establish Jonesville high school district, in Lee oounty,
Virginia, providing the mode of appointing trustees, levying tax for district
school purposes therein, and authorizing the trustees to apply the money col-
lected for district school purposes to the payment of teachers’ salaries, the pur-
chasing, renting, or building of school-houses, apparatus, furniture, appliances,

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Approved May 5, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the fol-
lowing territory, which is in the Jonesville magisterial district of Lee
county, Virginia, be, and the same is hereby, constituted a separate
school district, to be known as the Jonesville high school district,
with bounds as follows—to-wit: Beginning at the camp ground spring,
at the northwest corner of the Jonesville camp ground; thence north
to the top of Chestnut ridge; thence eastward with the top of said
ridge to a point on the top thereof north of Miller’s chapel; thence
south to Miller chapel; thence southward to the forks of the road on
the hill west of F. M. McConnell’s; thence southward to the south-
east corner of the Sam Cheek farm, on Powell river; thence westward
with said river to the southwest corner of Robert Vandeventer’s land;
thence with the west line of said Vandeventer’s land to George Ruth-
erford’s land; thence with the east line of said Rutherford’s land to
the Williams Rutherford’s blacksmith shop; and thence to the be
ginning.

2. The trustees of this district shall be appointed in the manner
provided by law for the appointment of district school trustees, and
shall, in addition to the dutics imposed by law on district school
trustees, ascertain and report to the board of supervisors of Lee county
the rate of taxation desired, to be levied for district school purposes
in this district on the real and personal property therein: provided.
that the rate of taxation shall not be Jess than twenty-five cents on
each one hundred dollars’ worth of the assessed value thereof.

3. The clerk of the board of trustees of this district shall trans-
mit to the board of supervisors of the county a copy of the order as-
certaining the rate of taxation as aforesaid, which order shall he
signed by the chairman of the board of trustees and attested by the
clerk. The board of supervisors shall, in its discretion, lav a levy
for district school purposes for this district at the rate so ascertained
by the board of trustees.

4, The trustees may, if they deem it necessary, apply the money
collected under the provisions of this act to the payment of teachers’
salaries in the district, the building, renting, or purchasing of school
buildings, furniture, apparatus, and school appliances as the trustees
in their judgment may deem necessary and proper.

5. It shall be the duty of the authorities, in which is vested the
power of appointment of district school trustees, within thirty days
after this act goes into force, to appoint trustees for this district,
and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of trustees so ap-
pointed, within sixty days from the date upon which this act goes into
force, to take a census of all the children living within the bounds
of this district that are legal school subjects, and to make report
thereof to the proper authorities, so that proper apportionments ma:
be made of the State and county school funds to this district.

6. All real and personal property within the bounds of this dis
trict shall be taxable therein, but any person owning or living on land
through which the boundary line of this district runs shall be taxabl
in the school district in which his or her mansion house is situated
and the whole of said land shall be taxable in the school district u
which said mansion house is situated.

%. The commissioner of the revenue of the commissioner’s district
in which is included this school district, in making up his commis
sioner’s books, shall list the property taxable within this school dis
trict on one or more pages of his books, so that the same may be sepa
rated from the other property in his district.

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

Chapp. 194.—An ACT to authorize the improvement of the public roads in Frederic]
county, and to provide funds to pay for the same.

. Approved May 5, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J. T
Mcllwee, R. I. Omps, C. FE. Clevenger, C. G. Crawford, and B. C
Shull, citizens of Frederick county, any three of whom may act, be
and they are hereby, appointed commiszioncrs to supervise and carr:
out the provisions of this act, as the same are set forth in the suc
ceeding sections hereof.

2. The said commissioners shall at the next general election to b
held for the election of county and district officers in said county
cause to be submitted to the voters of each district of said count:
the questions of the adoption of this act, and of the application o
the same to each particular district in said county. A separate bal
lot and ballot-box shall be used at each precinct at this election, bu
otherwise the election shall be conducted, held, and certified by th
same Officers and in the same manner as is or shall be provided b
law for the election of district and county officers in said county
The commissioners shall cause a written or printed notice of sai
election to be posted at each election precinct in the county for a
least ten days before such election. The commissioners shall alsc
cause to be printed and sent out with the ballots for the election o
the district and county officers a ballot of white paper, upon whicl
shall be printed the following words:

For road improvement by bond issue.

For road improvement by direct taxation.

Against application to this district.

Any voter desiring to vote for the improvement of the roads by
an issue of bonds shall make a X or a similar mark opposite the firs
line in the ballot; the voter desiring to vote for improvement of the
roads by direct taxation, shall make hie mark opposite the second line.
and the voter opposed to any application of the law to his district
shall make his mark opposite the third line of the ballot. The result
of this election shall be ascertained and certified by the election off-
cers to the clerk of the court in the same manner that the certificate
is made for the election of the county and district officers, and the
cost of holding this election shall be paid at the same time and as a
part of the cost of the regular election at which this election shall he
held.

3. If the majority of the votes cast in any one or more districts is
for road improvement by bonds, the commissioners acting in connec-
tion with the board of road commissioners in such district shall ascer-
tain and determine which of the principal county roads in such dis-
tricts shall be macadamized and prepared for that purpose, and which
of the principal roads shall be graded and otherwise improved. Should
there be a disagreement between the commissioners and any board
of road commissioners as to what roads shall be so selected in anv
district, the same shall be certified in writing to the board of super-
visors of the county, who shall forthwith determine the same, but the
total cost of the improvement of the roads in the districts of the
county to which this law is applicable shall not exceed the amount
of the total issue of bonds provided for by this act. The commis-
sioners shall then make an approximate estimate of the cost of im-
proving each road so selected in each district, and the total cost of all
the roads so selected in all of the districts, and shall certify the same.
with a correct list of said roads so selected, to the board of supervisors
of the county, who shall cause said certificate to be published for at
least ten days in one or more newspapers published in Winchester.
The boards of road commissioners of each of such districts shal] treat
first the roads of the most general importance selected, and should
the sum of money allotted to any district be insufficient to treat all
the roads selected for that district, they shall defer the treatment of
the others until some other fund shall be provided for that purpose.

4. Upon the final ascertainment and selection of the roads to be
treated, the commissioners shall cause to be prepared coupon or reg-
istered bonds of the county of Frederick, in denominations of one
hundred dollars and five hundred dollars, payable twenty vears after
date, with the privilege of paying in ten years, and with interest at
a rate not exceeding four and one-half per centum per annum, pay-
able ‘semi-annually; the amount of these bonds to be equal to the
sum needed for the treatment of all the roads selected as certified.
but in no event to exceed in the aggregate the sum of fifty thousand
dollars. The said bonds shall, as the proceeds thereof shall be needed
for the treatment of the roads as provided by this act, he signed hy
the president of the board of supervisors and by the treasurer of the
county, and as needed the county treasurer shall sell the same at not
less. than par. The proceeds of sale of said bonds shall by the treas-
urer be allotted to the several districts which shall have voted for the
bond issue in proportion to the need of such districts as ascertained
by the certificate required by clause three of this act, but not ex-
ceeding the proportion that the assessed value of the property in any
such district bears to the assessed value of the property in the other
districts of the county to which this act- shall apply.

5. The interest on the bends provided for by this act shall be paid
by the treasurer of Frederick county semi-annually as it becomes due,
and a sum of money equal to five per centum on the principal of
said bonds shall be annually set aside by the treasurer as a sinking
fund for the same; and this shall be invested semi-annually either in
the purchase or payment of said bonds, or otherwise as the board of
supervisors of the county shall direct. If the law for the improve-
ment of the roads by bonds is made applicable to every district in the
county, the interest and sinking fund payments paid by the county
shall be charged as follows: forty per centum thereof to the county
at large, and sixty per centum of the interest and sinking fund pay-
ment on the amount allotted to cach district, to be charged by the
county to the road fund of such district; but if the law is not made
applicable to all the districts, then each ‘district to which the law is
applicable shall repay to the county, out of its annual road fund, the
amount of interest and sinking fund payment on so much of the
fund for road improvements as under this act is allotted to such dis-
trict. If a majority of votes cast in any district shall be for road
improvement by direct taxation, it shall be the duty of the board of
road commissioners of anv such district to recommend, and for the
board of supervisors to levy, a tax sufficient for the purpose of road
improvement in such district: provided, the tax so to be levied for
this purpose shall not exceed in any one year forty cents on the one
hundred dollars of the assessed value of the property in such dis-
trict, and the other provisions of this act shall in that event have
no application to such district so far as the payment of interest and
sinking fund is concerned. If the majority of the votes cast in any
district shall be simply against application to such district, this act
shall have no application whatever to such district.

6. The money allotted to each district under this act, either by the
sale of bonds or by direct taxation, as the case may be, shall remain
in the hands of the county treasurer, and shall be paid out for the
treatment of the roads herein provided for from time to time on
orders, as is at present provided by the county road law, and the same
shall be accounted for by the county treasurer in his settlement with
the board of supervisors.

%. After the roads to he treated have been selected as provided by
this act the same shall be improved to an extent not exceeding the sum
allotted to each district, the improvement to be made under ‘the direc-
tion of the board of road commissioners of the several districts: pro-
vided, that it shall be Jawful for the board of supervisors of the
county to employ a practical road-maker having sufficient experience
and knowledge of such things, on such terms as they may agree on,
and the duties of this person shall be to aid the board of road com-
missioners in each district, when desired by any such board, and to
supervise any particular work to which he may be assigned. In the
treatment of the roads under this act the board of road commis-
sioners shall cause such of them as it is feasible to macadamize to be
macadamized with a single track of sufficient width and of such depth
as the conditions demand, and before macadamizing the same to have
them so graded that the whole work will be done to the most ad-
vantage. The selected roads that cannot be macadamized shall be
so drained and graded as to secure the best possible roads within the
limit of the sum appropriated therefor.

8. After the roads shall be so treated by the board of road commis-
sioners as provided by this act they shall continue to be worked and
cared for under the general road act of the county: provided, how-
ever, that in reconstructing said roads under this act such minor
changes in their courses as may be necessary may be made, and the
damage therefor shall be ascertained and paid for under the provisions
of the general road law of the county.

9. The duties of the commissioners named in this act shall be to
cause the same to be duly submitted to the voters of each district of
Frederick county as herem providesyl, and in the case of such dis
tricts as shall adopt a svstem of road improvement either by issue of
bonds or by direct taxation, to aid in the selection of the roads to he
improved as provided in section three of this act; to cause bonds to be
prepared and allotted for such district or districts as shall vote for
that method; and when these duties shall have been performed their
functions shall cease. The compensation of the commissioners shall
be two dollars to each commissioner for each day that he shall actu-
ally engage in the performance of his duties.

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