Chap. 70.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 and section 8 of an act
entitled, “an act to constitute the town of Warrenton and surrounding
territory a separate school district,” approved March 14, 1878

Approved February 29, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section six and section eight of an act entitled, ‘“‘an act to con-
stitute the town of Warrenton and surrounding territory a sep-
arate school district,” approved March fourteenth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

$6. As soon as the organization of the said separate dis-
trict shall be made as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said
town of Warrenton to provide for the support of the schools
therein by levying a capitation tax of not more than fifty cents,
and a pro rata tax on real and personal property within said
district of not less than ten nor more than twenty cents on every
hundred dollars thereof to be determined by said council. The
said tax as well as all school moneys t- be disbursed in said dis-
trict shall be received, kept and disbursed by the treasurer of
Fauquier county subject to similar responsibility as in case of
other funds by law committed to him. It shall be the duty of
the said treasurer of Fauquier county to receive and collect all
taxes levied for public free school purposes in said district and
to disburse the same in the same manner and subject to the
same provisions, regulations, restrictions and penalties as are or
may be prescribed by law for the receipt, collection and dis-
bursement of all other school moneys.

§8. As soon as the school board of said district shall be
appointed, the said board shall cause a census to be taken of the
school population of the said district in legal form, and report
the same to the state superintendent and the county superin-
tendent; and thereafter all state school funds shall be appor-
tioned and disbursed in the manner prescribed by law for the
apportionment and disbursement of state funds among the sev-
eral counties and districts of the state.