CHaP. 257.—An ACT to provide for the proper payment and distribution
of such funds as may have already come, or which may hereafter
come, into the treasury of the State under an act of Congress ap
proved May 23, 1908, to be applied for the benefit of the public schoo

lic roads of the counties. (H. B. 325.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
all money or moneys which shall have already been paid, or
which may hereafter be paid to the State of Virginia under an
act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred
and eight, and arising from the “Forest Reserve,” shall be paid
over to the auditor of public accounts, and be turned into the
State treasury, to be distributed and disposed of as hereinafter
provided.

2. The treasurer of each county in which there is situated
any land owned by the United States government and known as
“Forest Reserve” shall ascertain the area of said land so situated
in his county, and the “reserve” in which the same is located,
and make report thereof to the auditor of public accounts. Upon
receipt of such information from the treasurer, the auditor of
public accounts shall apportion the amount received by him
from the “reserve” in which the said land is located among the
counties in which the said ‘‘Forest Reserve’’ is located, accord-
ing to the area in each county; or if all of the fund received from
one reservation lies in one county, it shall all be apportioned
to that county, and the auditor of public accounts shall draw his
warrant on the State treasury in favor of the treasurer of each
county for the amount apportioned to said county, and such
treasurer shall receive the same and place the funds to the credit
of the public schools and the public roads of his said county, as
hereinafter provided.

3. The funds above apportioned to the various counties
shall by the treasurers thereof be placed to the credit of the
magisterial districts in which the said land is located, in equal
proportions, to the credit of the public schools and the public
roads of said district; and if the land lies in two or more dis-
tricts it shall be apportioned among them according to the area
in each.

4. The auditor of public accounts shall keep separate ac-
counts of all funds received by him under this act, designated
as the “Forest Reserve Fund.”