Chap. 325.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1517 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to claims against school districts, how
audited and warrants issued.

Approved March 14, 1908.

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

§1517. Claims against school districts, how audited and warrants
issued.—For the pay of public free school teachers, of the clerks of boards
of district school trustees, the cost of providing school-houses and appur-
tenances thereto and the repairs thereof, school furniture and appliances,
necessary text-books for children attending the public free schools in
cases where the parent or guardian is unable, by reason of poverty, to
furnish them, treasurer’s commissions, and any other expense attending
the public free school system, so far as the same is under control or at
the charge of the school district or its officers, it shall be necessary first
to obtain from the board of school trustees of the district concerned an
order approving the claim and directing it to be paid, which shall be
duly recorded in the proceedings of the said board; whereupon a warrant
shall be drawn, signed by the chairman of the said board and counter-
signed by the clerk thereof, payable to the order of the person entitled
to receive such money, and stating on its face the purpose or service
for which it is to be paid and that such warrant is drawn in pursuance
of an order of the board.