Chap. 149.-An ACT to amend section 780 of the Code prescribing the manner
of the appointment of school trustees in cities, and to validate the acts of
the schoot board of the city of Winchester. [S B 261]

Approved March 9, 1922.

Whereas, the school trustees in the city of Winchester have here-
tofore been appointed by the corporation court of said city pursuant
to the provisions of an act entitled an act to repeal section seven of
chapter seventy-nine of the Code and to regulate the appointment of
school trustees in cities and incorporated towns of five thousand in-
habitants and over, approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-four; and

Whereas, the proviso of said act, with respect to the manner of the
appointment of school trustees for the city of Winchester, was un-
advisedly omitted in the enactment of the Code of 1919; and

Whereas, because of the existing arrangement between the city
of Winchester and Hanley board of trustees with respect to the main-
tenance of the public school system of said city, it is expedient that
school trustees for said city should be appointed as heretofore by said
corporation court, and that all acts heretofore done by the school
board of the city of Winchester be validated:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven hundred and eighty of the Code of 1919 be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 780. School trustees—The council of each city shall ap-
point three trustees for each school district in such city, whose term
of office shall be three years, respectively, and one of whom shall be
appointed annually. If a vacancy occurs in the office of trustee at
any time during the term, the council shall fill it by appointing another
for such part of the term as has not expired. Within thirty days
preceding the day on which the term of said trustees shall expire by
limitation, and within the like number of days preceding the day on
which the term of any trustee shall expire by limitation in any subse-
quent year, such council shall appoint a successor to each such trustee
in office, whose term shall commence when the term of predecessor
shall have expired; provided, the office of any such trustee has not
been abolished in redistricting the city; and provided, further, that
the corporation court for the city of Winchester shall select and
appoint the school trustees for said city, and that in all other respects
the provisions of this section shall apply to the city of Winchester ;
and

2. That all acts heretofore done by the school board of the city
of Winchester are hereby validated.

3. An emergency existing, in that the doubt, if any exists, as to
the manner of the selection of school trustees in the city of Win-
chester should be promptly removed, this act shall be in force from
its passage.