Chap. 86.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize
the trustees of New London academy to lease said buildings to county
superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell counties for school
purposes, approved May 10, 1887, and authorizing the trustees of the
New London academy to convey the real and personal property vested in
them to the county school boards of Bedford and Campbell counties, and
providing for the maintenance and management of the academy.

Approved March 2, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
approved May ten, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and entitled an
act to authorize the trustees of New London acadamy to lease said build-
ings to county superintendents of schools of Bedford and Campbell coun-
ties for school purposes, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

§1. The trustees of the New London academy are hereby authorized
and empowered to convey by deed, with special warranty of title, to the
county school boards of Bedford and Campbell counties all of the estate,
real and personal, held by them as such trustees, to be held by the said
county school boards for the education, use and benefit of the white
pupils living within the said counties, or in other counties of the State of
Virginia, under such provisions and restrictions as the board of managers
hereinafter provided for may prescribe.

§2. The control and management of the estate of the said New Lon-
appointed as aforesaid by the superintendent of public instruction shall
be vested in a board of managers, to be composed of the division superin-
tendent of schools of Bedford county, the division superintendent of
schools of Campbell county, and a member of the county school board of
Bedford county, or of Campbell county, who shall be appointed by the
superintendent of public instruction. The term of office of the member
appointed as aforesaid by the superintendent of public instruction shall
be three years, unless his term of office as schoo! trustee sooner expire.

§3. The board of managers shall select one of their number as chair-
man and another of their number as clerk, and all of the expenditures of
the funds of the said academy shall be by checks or warrants authorized
by the said board, and signed by the chairman and clerk, respectively.

Each member of said board shall receive the sum of forty dollars per
year as compensation for his services.

§4. It shal] be the duty of the said board of managers to take charge
of the estate of the said academy, and control the same, with power to
the said board to make and change investments of the funds of the said
academy, and to apply the revenue derived therefrom to the support and
maintenance of the school, or to apply the principal of the funds coming
into their hands to the permanent improvement of the real estate of the
said academy, or to the purchase of additional real estate, as their judg-
ment may dictate. .

It shall be the duty of the said board of managers to establish depart-
ments for the education of the white pupils of the counties of Bedford
and Campbell, or other counties of the State, to employ instructors, and
0 do all other things necdful and proper for the government and opera-
ion of the said academy.
$5. The said academy shall be under the general control and super-
vision of the State board of education, and in all respects conducted in
accordance with the school laws of the State, except as herein otherwise
provided for, and shall be within the jurisdiction of the division super-
intendent of Bedford county, or of Campbell county, as the board of man-
agers may from time to time determine.

§6. The division superintendents of schools of the counties of Bedford
and Campbell, respectively, are authorized, in their discretion, annually to
set apart a sum for the maintenance of the said academy, not to exceed
one-twentieth part of the county levy for public school purposes in each
year; but the county school boards or the boards of supervisors of the
said counties may, in their discretion, respectively, set apart such addi-
tional sums for the maintenance of said academy or the improvement of
its real estate, or the purchase of new real estate, as to them may
seem fit. The sums thus set apart shall be paid over to the board of man-
agers, to be by them distributed as herein provided for.

§7. The board of managers may, in their discretion, fix the charge to
be made for the tuition of pupils; and at the end of each month, or at
periods fixed by the said board, the clerks of the respective school dis-
tricts in which the pupils reside shall be notified of the amounts due for
the tuition of pupils from the said respective school districts, which sums
shall be paid to the clerk of the board of managers by warrants drawn in
accordance with law.

2. An emergency existing, in order that the said New London academy
may get the benefit of certain appropriations and be operated upon a
more satisfactory basis, this act shall be in force from its passage.