Chap. 131.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to add an
independent section to be known as section 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.

Approved March 11, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an.act to add an independent section to be known as section
fourteen hundred and sixty-three-a to chapter sixty-six of the Code of
Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, authorizing a new school
census to be taken whenever the boundaries of a district are changed,
approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1463a. Whenever the boundaries of any schoo] district or districts
are changed, it shall be the duty of the division superintendent of schools
to cause a census to be taken by some person selected by him of the
school children of the territory or territeries concerned, which census
shall show which of the children on the census books of the preceding
regular census of school children, made under the provisions of section
fourteen hundred and sixty-two of the Code, both white and colored, have
been transferred, naming the districts, respectively, from which they
come and to which they are transferred, 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 cost thereof shall be borne by the school districts to
which territory is annexed, in proportion to their respective increases of
school population.