Chap. 193.—An ACT to establish Jonesville high school district, in Lee county,
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,

ete.
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 he less 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-
eertaining the rate of taxation as aforesaid, which order shall be
signed by the chairman of the board of trustees and attested by the
clerk. The board of supervisors shall, in its diseretion, lay a levy
for district school purposes for this district at the rate so ascertained
by the board of trustecs.

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 may
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 lands
through which the boundary line of this district runs shall be taxable
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 in
which said mansion house is situated.

i. 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-
tated from the other property in his district.

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