Chap. 148.—An ACT to provide for the establishment of recreation centers and
for the teaching of home-crafts. [(S B 133]

Approved March 9, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That each
county or city may, on the petition of twenty voters in an election
district establish in that district one or more recreation centers as
hereinafter described.

2. Such recreation centers shall be established in a clubhouse or
room provided for that purpose, or in the local schoolhouse during
the hours when the rooms are not in use for school purposes, and
when feasible, shall have grounds for out-door amusements. Such
a recreation center shall as soon as practicable, acquire furniture,
books, musical instruments, art and writing materials, equipment for
home-crafts, dramatic art, kindergarten work, indoor and out-door
games and moving pictures; in the order in which the need for these
arises. In the event that a local schoolhouse be used, it shall be
upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the local
board of school trustees.

3. In communities where no recreation center is established the
local board of public welfare may, on the request of twenty voters in
a rural election district, provide amusements, and training and prac-
tice in home-crafts in the home, through craft clubs or other means
by which groups may be brought together. These crafts shall be
traditional home-crafts, such as weaving, chair-caning, dyeing, car-
pentering, basketry, et cetera, and to provide interesting and produc-
tive occupations in the home to revive the old home-crafts in this
State, and are to be supplementary to, and not to interfere with any
vocational training or domestic science training administered under
the Smith-Hughes act or the Smith-Lever act, or any vocational
training or domestic science training whatever, already being given
in the county.

4. The administration of this act shall be under the local board
of public welfare and the direction of such recreation centers or of
such home recreation shall be in the hands of the superintendent of
public welfare, or in the absence of the superintendent: of public
welfare, of any person or persons who shall be appointed by the
local board of public welfare. Such a person or persons may be local
teachers or the home demonstration agent or some other responsible
person, and the instruction may be given by some person in the com-
munity familiar with such crafts under their direction.