Chap. 367.—An ACT authorizing the town of Bowling Green to appropriate a
sum not exceeding $20,000.00 toward the erection of a public school building
in the said town and fot such other school purposes as the council of said
town may deem proper, and to levy a tax to pay said appropriations.

[H B 374]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
council or board of trustees of the town of Bowling Green, the said
town not constituting a separate school district, be, and they are
hereby, authorized and empowered to appropriate and expend a sum
not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for the construction of a
county public school building in said town or for such other school
purposes as the said council or board of trustees may deem proper.
The said appropriations or expenditures may be made in a lump sum
or in annual installments for a period of years; provided, however,
the said appropriations or expenditures whether made in a lump sum
or by installments shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty
thousand dollars, and the said council or board of trustees, should
they deem it fit and proper so to do, may enter into a contract with
the school board of Caroline county to contribute and appropriate
annually a certain sum to meet and retire a loan or an agreed part
thereof which may hereafter be made or effected by the school board
of Caroline county from the State literary fund for the purpose of
erecting a county school building in the town of Bowling Green; pro-
vided, however, that the aggregate of said annual contributions shall
not exceed twenty thousand dollars; and the said town council or
board of trustees are authorized and empowered to impose such
additional levies and taxes, not to exceed the maximum rate as fixed
by general law, on all taxable property, real, personal and mixed,
assessable with taxes for town purposes, as may be necessary to meet
and retire such appropriations or contributions for the purposes
hereinbefore mentioned. Any taxes or levies now being imposed
and collected by the said town of Bowling Green for school purposes
shall not be considered in arriving at the maximum sum of twenty
thousand dollars herein authorized to be appropriated and expended
by said town for said school purposes.