CHAP. 72.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to create Ettrick sub-
school district in Matoaca district of Chesterfield county, approved
March 6, 1900. (S. B. 199.)

Approved February 29, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act approved March sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled an act
to create Etttrick sub-school district, in Matoaca district, Ches-
tee county, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows: .

Section 1. That that portion of Matoaca school district, of
Chesterfield county, embraced within the following lines and
boundaries, to-wit: Beginning on the north side of Appomattox
river and the eastern line of the right-of-way of the Richmond,
Petersburg and Carolina railroad company; thence along the
said eastern line of said right-of-way to the southerly line of the
river road at the land of the Davies estate; thence along the
southerly line of the said river road to the eastern line of the
right-of-way of that part of the line of the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad company called the “Belt Line;” thence along said east-
ern line of said right-of-way to Appomattox river; thence along
the horthern line of said river to the point of beginning, be, and
the same is hereby created a sub-school district by the name of
Ettricks sub-school district.

Sec. 2. That there shall be three school trustees for said
sub-district, who shall be appointed as district school trustees
are appointed according to the general law and shall hold of-
fice for the terms prescribed by law. No person who does not
nossess a fair education shall be appointed a trustee. All va-

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cancies occurring in said board shall be filled as provided by law.
Before entering upon the discharge of his duty each trustee
shall qualify in the manner required of school trustees. Said
trustees shall constitute a board, and shall elect one of their
number chairman and another clerk, and any two shall consti-
tute a quorum. The clerk shal] keep a record of the proceedings
of the board, and the same shall be signed by the chairman and
attested by the clerk. They may hold meetings when called by
the chairman or requested by any two trustees.

sec. 3. The duties of said board of trustees in said sub-dis-
trict shall be in general as follows, subject to be defined more
particularly by the Board of Education:

First. To explain and enforce the school laws, and observe
the same.

Second. To employ teachers and make such contracts with
them as required by law and to dismiss them when delinquent,
inefficient, or in any wise unworthy of the position; provided,
however, that no teacher shall be dismissed without the approv-
al of the county superintendent of schools, who may be called
upon by said board to sit with them in passing upon that
matter.

Third. To suspend or dismiss pupils when the prosperity
and efficiency of the schools make it necessary.

Fourth. To decide what children wishing to enter the
schools of the sub-district are entitled, by reason of poverty of
their parents or guardians, to receive text-books free of charge,
and to provide for supplying them accordingly.

Fifth. To visit the schools and take care that they are con-
ducted according to law and with the utmost efficiency, and to
prescribe regulations and rules for conducting the same, sub-
ject to the approval of the county superintendent, and not incon-
sistent with law or rules of the Board of Education.

Sixth. To take care of, manage and control the school prop-
erty within the sub-district, and provide school houses, and re-
pairs thereof, school furniture and appliances and other inci-
dental things.

Seventh. To make report on any matter required by the
county superintendent, and to make annual reports, as required
by sub-division ten of section fourteen hundred and sixty-six of
the Code of Virginia.

Sec. 4. The county superintendent of schools and the Ma.
toaca district school board shall, upon the statement of the com:
missioner of the revenue, herein provided for, and such other
information as they may have, apportion and set apart for che
use of the said sub-district, all school funds which it would b
entitled to if it were a separate district, and shall provide saic
board of trustees with a statement thereof.

Sec. 5. The commissioner of the revenue shall annually, a
the time of making up his land and property books, make a list
or statement, taken from said books, showing the school taxes
or levies within said sub-district, delivering a copy thereof to
each the chairman of the said board of trustees, the county su-
perintendent of schools, and the county treasurer. All funds to
which said sub-district may be entitled shall be expended on ac-
count of the schools within the same. For his services the com-
missioner of the revenue shall receive reasonable compensation,
to be ellowed by the said board of trustees, payable out of the
funds of said sub-district. °

. All claims against said sub-district, including the
pay of teachers, shall be passed upon by the said board of trus-
tees, and, if approved, certified by the chairman and clerk of the
board of trustees of Ettrick sub-school district and the county
superintendent of schools, who shall issue warrants upon the
county treasurer in the same manner that warrants are issued
under the general school laws, except that each warrant shall
show on its face that it is issued on account of Ettricks sub-dis-
trict. Claims shall not be allowed by the said board of trustees
for an aggregate amount greater than the revenue to which
said sub-district mav be entitled, nor shall warrants be issued
for a greater amount in the aggregate than said revenue; and
said board, in approving claims or in issuing warrants, shall
make due allowance for the delinquent lists likely to be charged
against said sub-district.

Sec. 7. The county treasurer shall, in addition to accounts
kept by him of the Matoaca school district funds, keep a separate
account showing receipts and disbursements on account of said
Ettricks sub-district.

Sec. 8. The said clerk of said sub-school district board shall
take the census and make a list of the school population within
said sub-district, and deliver a copy thereof to the chairman of
said board of trustees. and the original filed with the county su-
perintendent of schools, to be used by him in connection with
his duties under the fourth section of this act. -

Sec. 9. That all of the school property of every kind within
said sub-district now standing in the name of the school board
of Matcaca district be, and the same is hereby transferred anc
assigned to the said board of trustees of Ettrick sub-school dis:
trict as created by this act.

Sec. 10. The trustees provided for in this act shall receive
twenty ($20) dollars per annum for their services. They shall
be subject to the provisions of sections fourteen hundred and
seventy-two. fourteen hundred and seventy-three and fourteer
hundred and seventy-four of the Code of Virginia.

Sec. 11. The county superintendent of schools shall have
the same authoritv in said sub-district that he has or may hav
in other school districts. :