Chap. 82.—An ACT to amend section 669 of the Code of Virginia. {H B 44]
Approved February 25, 1920.

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

Sec. 669. When State funds paid for school purposes in dis-
tricts——No State money shall be paid for the public free schools in
any county or district until evidence is filed with the State board ot
education, signed by the superintendent of schools and the clerk of
the county board, certifying that the schools of said county or district
have been kept in operation on an average for at least seven months,
or twenty days longer than the previous year, or a less period satis-
factory to the State board of education, or that arrangements have
been made: which will secure the keeping of them in operation for
that length of time; provided, that whenever the State and local
funds shall justify a term of nine months shall be maintained, it being
the purpose of this act to establish where conditions permit a stan-
dard nine months’ school term; provided, however, that no county
shall be denied participation in State school funds as provided by
law when said county has levied the maximum local school tax al-
lowed by law.