Chap. 404.—An ACT to establish a public free school on the grounds of the
prison association of Virginia at Laurel, Henrico county, and to make an
appropriation for erection and equipment "of the school house, and to provide
for the conduct and maintenance of the same.

Approved March 16, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That a public
free school be established on the grounds of the prison association of
Virginia at Laurel, Henrico county, for the exclusive benefit and use of
the boys and youths confined in the institution at that place, known as
the Laurel reformatory.

2. Said school shall be under the control of the State board of educa-
tion, except that the discipline of the scholars shall be under the control
of the said prisén association. Said scholars shall attend said school at
least three hours a day, Saturdays and Sundays excepted. Said associa-
tion may permit any scholar to attend for a greater period than three
hours per day, but nothing herein shall be construed to take away from
said association any authority or control over the boys and youths under
its control, except as above stated.

3. The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the erec-
tion and equipment of the said school house, and the auditor of public
accounts is directed to pay said amount to the directors of said associa-
tion, the same to be expended under the direction of the said State
board of education.

The sum of one thousand dollars per annum is also hereby appro-
priated out of the school funds of this State for the maintenance of said
school, the same to be applied to the payment of teachers, said money
to be set apart as other money for the support of public free schools is
set apart, except that it shall be received and paid out by said State
board of education.