Chap. 436.—An ACT to amend section 604 of the Code of Virginia. [H B 63]
Approved March 24, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six hundred and four of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: .

sec. 604. The State board of education to divide the State into
school divisions and to appoint division superintendents.—It shall be
the duty of the State board of education to divide the State into ap-
propriate school divisions, in the discretion of the said: board ; compris-
ing not less than one county or city each, but no county or city shall
be divided in the formation of such divisions. It shall, subject to the
confirmation of the senate, appoint for each of such divisions one
superintendent of schools, who shall hold office for four years and who
during his said incumbency of this office shall be required to devote
himself exclusively to the discharge of its duties; but the said board
may in its discretioon make an exception to this rule of exclusive em-
ployment when in the judgment of said board such exception will
enure to the benefit of the public school system in the division of such
superintendent thus excepted.