Chap. 73.—An ACT to provide for the acceptance of the conditions of the
federal act commonly called the Smith-Hughes bill (public No. 347, 64th
congress), and authorizing the State board of education to act as a State
board of vocational education for the Commonwealth, and authorizing
the treasurer of the State of Virginian to act as custodian of such funds
as may be received from the federal government, and to pay the same out
on warrant drawn by the State board of education, and authorizing the
State board of education to establish a department of vocational educa-
tion. and appropriating money therefor. {H B 57]

Approved February 23, 1918S.

Whereas, an act of congress (public, No. 347, sixty-fourth con-
gress), title of which act reads as follows: “An act to provide for
the promotion of vocational education; to provide for co-operation
with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture.
in the trades and industries: to provide for co-operation with the
States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects ; and to
appropriate money and regulate its expenditure,” was approved
February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seventeen; an

Whereas, under the terms of the act, the provisions of said act
have been accepted by proclamation of the governor, subject to

ratification by the general assembly of Virginia; and,

Whereas, the plan therein proposed for federal aid in co-opera-
tion with the State and local communities is, in the judgment of
this general assembly, wise and beneficial; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
State board of education be, and is hereby, delegated to act as the
State board for vocational education, to carry out the provisions of
said federal act, and to co-operate with the federal board for voca-
tional education for the purposes of this act.

2. That the treasurer of Virginia be, and is hereby, appointed
custodian for any appropriations alloted by the federal board for the
purposes of vocational education in Virginia, and that he be, and is
hereby, instructed to disburse said money upon warrant properly
issued by the said State board of education.

3. That the State board of education be, and is hereby, au-
thorized to take advantage of the appropriations made by the fed-
eral government :

(a) For training of teachers or supervisors or directors of agri-
cultural subjects.

(b) For the training of teachers of the trades, home economics,
and industrial subjects.

(c) For the pay of the salaries of teachers of the trades, home
economics, and industrial subjects.

(d) For the pay of the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or di-
rectors of agricultural subjects.

4. That the State board of education be, and is hereby, au-
thorized to provide for the proper supervision and management of
such schools as may receive the benefits of said appropriations out
of such funds as may be at its disposal, for maintenance, super-
vision, equipment. or establishment. of agricultural or vocational
schools, including departments of home economics and trade work.

5. That the State board of education be, and is hereby au-
thorized to establish out of such funds as are ‘available, a cdepart-
ment of vocational education for the State, the purpose of which
department. shall be to study the problems of vocational education,
systematize the work in the State and promote and supervise the
teaching of such subjects in the schools of the Commonwealth, as
will lead to useful and productive employment in rural or urban
communities.

6. That for the fiscal vear ending on the twenty-eighth day of
February, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of forty-eight
thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars, is hereby appropriated.
and. for the fiseal vear ending the twenty- ninth day of February.
nineteen hundred and twenty. the sum of sixty-three thousand four
hundred and sixty dollars is hereby appropriated, said sums to be
paid out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, which sums, or so much thereof, as shall be necessary, upon
the itemized statement of the State board of education, duly certified
and filed with the auditor of public accounts, shall be turned over
by the auditor of public accounts to the second auditor, to be dis-
bursed upon warrant drawn by the State board of education, such
sums of money to be used exclusively for the promotion of vocational
education in agriculture and in the trades, home economics and in-
clustries in high schools and for the preparation of teachers of voca-
tional subjects, as provided in the said federal act, to be expended
under rules and regulations to be adopted by the State board of
education.