Chap. 210.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1506 of Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to what school funds shall consist of.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen hundred and six of Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1506. Of what school funds to consist.—The funds applicable an-
nually to the establishment,’ support, and maintenance of public
free schools in this State shall consist of—

First. State funds, embracing the annual interest on the literary fund ;
all appropriations made by the general assembly for public free school
purposes; that portion of the capitation tax provided for in the Con-
stitution to be paid into the State treasury and not returnable to the
counties, and such tax on property, not less than one mill nor more
than five mills on the dollar, as the general assembly shall, from time
to time, order to be levied. These funds shall be applied exclusively to
the maintenance of primary and grammar schools.

Second. County funds, embracing such tax as shall be levied by the
board of supervisors in pursuance of this section, and donations, or the
income arising therefrom, or any other funds that may be set apart for
district school purposes.

Third. District funds, embracing such tax as shall be levied by the
board of supervisors of the county for the purposes of the school district
in pursuance of this section; such dog tax as shall be applied to school
purposes by the board of supervisors, and donations, or the income
arising therefrom, or any other funds that may be set apart for district
school purposes.

The board of supervisors of each county, at the regular meeting in
April of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, or when the
division superintendent of schools shall file with the said board the esti-
mates made by the county and district school boards in accordance with
section fourteen hundred and sixty-six of this chapter, shall levy a tax
of not less than ten nor more than forty cents on the hundred dollars
of the assessed value of the real and personal property in the county for
the support of the public free schools of the county, and a tax of not
less than ten nor more than forty cents on the hundred dollars of the
assessed value of the real and personal property in any school district
for district school purposes: provided, that should the board of super-
visors fail to make a levy sufficient to raise the amounts estimated by
the county school board as necessary for county and district school pur-
poses, respectively, it shall, upon a petition in writing from the county
school board praying for a reference of the question of such increase in
the levy as will make it sufficient to raise the said estimated amounts to
the qualified voters of the county or of the district, as the case may be,
submit the question and the amount of the increase to the qualified
voters of the said county for the increase in the county levy, or to the
qualified voters of the said district as to the increase in the district levy:
provided, however, that the total levy for county and district school
purposes shall not exceed fifty cents on the hundred dollars of the as-
sessed value of the taxable property in both the county and the district:
provided, further, that no such increased levy shall be made unless a
majority of the qualified voters voting at the election shall vote in the
affirmative. In towns that constitute single school districts the council
instead of the board of supervisors may make the levy for district school
purposes.

Boards of supervisors may be permitted to make a less rate of levy
than the minimum rates of county or district school levies named above
in any case by a special order of the State board of education, if in the
judgment of said board, the said less rate of levy will produce sufficient
funds to provide adequate school facilities in the county or district con-
cerned.