Chap. 161.—An ACT to add an independent section to be known as scction
1463a to chapter 66 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, authorizing a new
school census to be taken whenever the boundaries of a district are changed.

Approved March 11, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘That section
fourteen hundred and sixty-three-a be added to chapter sixty-six of the
Code of . Virginia, as follows:

§1463a. Whenever the boundaries of any school district are changed it
shall be the duty of the division superintendent of the annexed territory
to immediately order a census to be taken, by some person to be appointed
by him, of the school children of the territory, which census shall show
the number of white and colored children transferred, the district from
which they came, the district to which they are transferred, and the
number from each district, and when said census is certified as required
by section fourteen hundred and sixty-two of the Code of Virginia, it
shall be the duty of the division superintendent to amend the last
census of the division in accordance with said report and thereafter to
apportion the school funds amongst the school districts of the division
in accordance with the said amended census. The census herein required
shall, except as herein provided, be taken in accordance with the pro-
visions of said section fourteen hundred and sixty-two of the Code of
Virginia, and the costs thereof shall be borne by the school district to
which the territory is annexed.

2. An emergency existing by reason of the change in certain school
districts since the last school cerisus, this act shall be in force from its
passage.