Chap. 412.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 611, 612, 617, 618, 619,
620, 621, 622, 626, 629, 630, 642, 647, 649, 650, 651, 653, 655, 660, 673,
678, 682, 684, 695, 778 and 780 of the Code of Virginia as amended into
law by ‘chapter 471 of the acts of 1928, which act revised, consolidated,
amended and codified the school laws of Virginia relating to the public
school system. [S B 168]

Approved March 25, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
six hundred and eleven, six hundred and twelve, six hundred and seven-
teen, six hundred and eighteen, six hundred and nineteen, six hundred
and twenty, six hundred and twenty-one, six hundred and twenty-two,

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and thirty, six hundred and forty-two, six hundred and forty-seven,
six hundred and forty-nine, six hundred and fifty, six hundred and
hifty-one, six hundred and fifty-three, six hundred and fifty-five, six
hundred and sixty, six hundred and seventy-three, six hundred and
seventy-eight, six hundred and eighty-two, six hundred and eighty-
four, six hundred and ninety-five, six hundred and ninety-eight, seven
hundred and seventy-eight and seven hundred and eighty of the Code
of Virginia, as enacted into law by chapter four hundred and seventy-
one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 611. An efficient system of public schools of a minimum
school term of one hundred and sixty school days, shall be established
and maintained in all of the cities and counties of the State. The
public school system shall be administered by the following authorities,
to-wit: A State board of education, a superintendent of public instruc-
tion, division superintendent of schools, the county board and city
school boards.

Section 612. The general stipervision of the school system shall
be vested in a State board of education, to be appointed by the gover-
nor, stibject to confirmation by the general assembly, and to consist
of seven members. The first appointment under this section shall be
one member for one year, two members for two years, two members
fer three years and two members for four years, and thereafter all
appointments shall be made for a term of four years, except appoint-
ments to fill vacancies, which shall be for the unexpired terms. At the
first meeting after the board has been constituted, it shall elect some
person not a member of the board its secretary, and shall from its
membership elect a president. The State board of education shall
prescribe the duties of the secretary and of the superintendent of pub-
lic instruction, except so far as otherwise provided by law.

Section 617. The State board of education shall select textbooks
and educational appliances for use in the public schools of the State,
exercising such discretion as it may see fit in the selection of books
sultable for the schools in the cities and counties, respectivelv. No
textbook adopted for basal use shall be changed until such book has
been in use for a period of not less than five years, subject to renewal
from one to four years, unless such book becomes obsolete or unless
a change would result in a material decrease in price.

Section 618. The State board of education shall enter into written
contracts with publishers of textbooks adopted for use in the public
schools of the Commonwealth, said contracts to contain the following
representations, terms and conditions: The contract shall set forth
the lowest wholesale price free on board publisher or, in the discretion
of the State board of education, if a depository be established the
lowest depository price at which books are sold under contract any-
where in the United States. The publisher shall list with the superin-
tendent of public instruction the lowest wholesale prices at which books
involved in the contract have been sold anywhere in the United States
during the preceding three years, or for a longer period, if designated
by the State board of education. The State board shall stipulate a
retail price to patrons, which price shall in no case exceed fifteen per
centum added to the wholesale price. If subsequent to the date of
any contract entered into by the State board of education the prices
of books named in the contract be reduced or the terms of the con-
tract be made more favorable to purchase anywhere in the United
States under the same conditions, or, if a special or other edition of
any book named in the contract shall be sold outside of Virginia at a
lower price than bid in this State, then the publisher shall, in the dis-
cretion of the State board of education grant the same reduction or
terms to the State board of education of Virginia and give said board
the option of using said special or other edition adapted for use in
Virginia and at the lowest price at which said special edition is sold
elsewhere. If the publisher be a foreign corporation or a non-resi-
dent of this State, the secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby ap-
pointed as agent upon which process may be served against the publisher
in case any legal proceedings be commenced to enforce any rights or
claims under the contract. The publisher shall furnish sample copies
of all books mentioned in the contract with the State board of educa-
tion, and shall guarantee that the books bid in the contract are equal
in all respects to such sample copies. Each contract made with the
publisher of textbooks shall be accompanied by a bond with good and
sufficient surety in the penal sum of not less than one thousand dol-
lars nor more than twenty thousand dollars, to be approved by the
State board ot education, and to be conditioned upon the performance
of all of the terms and conditions of said contract and payment of
liquidated damages, as hereinafter provided for, and any damage in
excess thereof which may be proved to be sustained by reason of the
violation of such terms and conditions. Upon the discovery of any
misrepresentation of fact in said contract or upon the violation of any
of the terms and conditions herein contained, the publisher shall, upon
the demand of the State board of education, pay as liquidated damages
the sum of one thousand dollars to the Commonwealth of Virginia to
the credit of its literary fund, and in cases of such violation the State
board of education may, in its discretion, in addition to its demand
for liquidated damages as aforesaid, declare said contract null and
void. The superintendent of public instruction shall report any mis-
representation in or any violation of the contracts with publishers to
the State board of education, which board shall, if the public interest
so require, instruct the attorney general to institute such legal pro-
ceedings as he may deem proper in the premises.

Section 619. The State board of education may provide in con-
tract with publishers that said publishers shall sell direct to local school
boards at the wholesale price free on board named in the contract and
shall require publishers to furnish an adequate supply of texts under
the terms of the contract. The State board of education may also stip-
ulate that the local school board may furnish said textbooks to the
children of the schools free or at the wholesale price at which books
are purchased, or at such other price not exceeding fifteen per centum
added to wholesale. The State board of education may stipulate also
that county and city boards shall designate agents for the purchase and
proper distribution of said textbooks but no agent thus designated shall
be permitted to fix a retail price in excess of fifteen per cent added to
wholesale price free on board publishers. The agents thus designated
by the local’school board shall be required to give reasonable bond
guaranteeing the prompt ordering of books and an ample supply to
meet the requirements of the schools. The local board shall also
require the agent to furnish a bond in a penalty to be fixed by the board
indemnifying the board against loss from the failure to pay the pub-
lisher or publishers for said books. When such agent is thus designated
and bonded the local board shall be responsible to the publisher for any
default by such agent in the payment for such books.

Section 620. On or before June twentieth of each year the division
superintendent shall make up a requisition covering all textbooks needed
for the supply of the schools at the opening of the following session.
Such requisition shall be based on detailed report from teachers or from
any other responsible source of information which may be used. Copies
of this requisition shall be sent to the State superintendent of public
instruction and a copy shall be furnished to each of the local dealers,
if designated by the local boards to handle textbooks.

Section 621. The local board and the division superintendent
shall see to it that appropriate orders for books are forwarded to each
publisher either directly from the local board or through designated
agencies not later than June thirtieth of each year. If such orders
are not promptly and completely filled by publishers reports shall be
made by the division superintendent to the superintendent of public
instruction for investigation and for report to the State board of edu-
cation, if any action under the contract may be deemed proper. The
division superintendent shall likewise report to the superintendent of
public instruction any departures from contract prices by local dealers
or agents and report any other irregularities or any failure of a pub-
lisher to comply with the conditions of the contract with the State
board of education.

Section 622. The State board of education may in its discretion
authorize a central depository to be operated under the general control
of the State board of education. In case such a depository be estab-
lished or maintained, then orders from local school boards or from
local agents of such boards may be required to be filed with the de-
pository rather than with the publisher, but nothing in this section
shall prohibit special orders of books from being filled directly by the
publishers. |

Section 626. The State board of education, as the State board for
vocational education, is authorized and directed to establish and main-
tain or to assist in the establishment and maintenance of industrial,
agricultural, household arts and commercial schools; aid local authori-
ties to inaugurate and superintend the establishment of schools and
departments of schools or other agencies for the aforesaid forms of
education; inspect such schools, departments and agencies and allow
to such schools and departments, as are approved by said board, the
money to which said schools and departments may be entitled from
time to time, out of funds appropriated by the general assembly for
the benefit of such forms of education.

Section 629. The State board of education shall perform such
other duties as may be prescribed by law. |

Such reasonable expenses as the members of the board may incur
in attending the meetings of the board, or any committee thereof, shall
be paid from available funds by the treasurer on the warrant of the
comptroller upon the approved voucher or vouchers required by the
comptroller.

Section 630. The superintendent of public instruction shall be
appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the general as-
sembly, for a term coincident with that of the governor making the ap-
pointment the first appointment to be made at the expiration of the term
of the superintendent of public instruction, which began February
first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six. Any vacancy shall be filled
by appointment by the governor, subject to confirmation by the general
assembly. The superintendent of public instruction shall be an ex-
perienced educator. His salary shall be fixed by the general assembly,
and he shall be allowed an addition to his salary for his necessary
traveling expenses while engaged in the duties of his office, such sum
as may be appropriated by law. Before entering upon the discharge
of the duties of his office, he shall qualify by taking and subscribing
the oath required of all officers of the State. |

Section 642. Upon the approval of the application by the attorney
general, the State board of education may, in its discretion, make such
loan, but no such loan shall exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars, nor shall it exceed two-thirds of the cost of the schoolhouse
and addition thereto, on account of which such loan is made. No loan
shall be made to aid in the erection of a building or addition to cost
less than five hundred dollars. Whenever such Ioan is made for the
purpose of enlarging a schoolhouse, any part of the proceeds of such
loan may, in the discretion of the State board, be used to retire any
previous loan, or loans, on such schoolhouse, although not matured at
the time of such addition loan. No loan shall be made in any case
in which the payment of the same with interest would, in the judgment
of the State board of education, entail too heavy a charge upon the
revenues of the county or city to which such loan is granted. Nor
in the discretion of the State board of education shall any loan from
the literary fund be made to any school board which is in default in
the payment of any part of the principal of any previous loan from
the literary fund made to said board or its predecessors in office, nor
to any board which for the two years next preceding said loan has
been more than six months in default in the payment of interest due on
any such loan.

Section 647. No State money shall be paid for the public schools
in any county until evidence is filed with the State board of education,
signed by the superintendent of schools and the clerk of the board,
certifying that the schools of said county have been kept in operation
for at least eight months, or a less period satisfactory 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; pro-
vided, that whenever the State and local funds shall justify it a term of
nine months shall be maintained, it being the purpose of this statute
to establish, where conditions permit, a standard nine months school
term; provided the school board of any county may, by and with the
consent of the State board of education, provide for and maintain a
standard seven and one-half months term, with six school days per
week, instead of a term of nine months of five days per week, in one
or more schools provided, however, that no county shall be denied par-
ticipation in State school funds, as provided by law when the board
of said county has appropriated a fund equivalent to that which would
have been produced by the levying of the maximum local school tax
allowed by law, or has levied the maximum local school tax allowed by
law, provided, such appropriation or levy is based on assessments not
lower than the assessments on real and personal property in such
counties in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five.

Section 649. No one shall be eligible for appointment as division
superintendent unless he meets the minimum qualifications set up by
the State board of education, and in order that an applicant for the
position of division superintendent may know what qualifications are
required of him, the State board of education is hereby required to
publish on the first of February of the year in which such election is
to take place, a statement showing the minimum qualifications for the
position of division superintendent of schools, which statement shall be
furnished to all applicants. ‘The superintendents at present in office
shall continue therein until their present terms expire.

Within sixty days before May first, nineteen hundred and thirty-
three and every four years thereafter there shall be appointed by the
school board or boards of each school division, one division superin-
tendent of schools, who shall be selected from a list of eligibles certi-
fied by the State board of education and shall hold office for four
years. The salary and conditions of appointment shall conform to
section six hundred and fifteen. ‘Any vacancy in the office of division
superintendent shall be filled by the school board or boards of the
division. In the event that the local school board fails to elect a divis-
ion superintendent within the time prescribed by this section, the State
board of education shall appoint such division superintendent.

Before making any appointment, the board shall give general notice
by publication once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper
having general circulation in said county, of the time and place of
any meeting for the purpose of appointing a division superintendent.

Section 650. No Federal officer or employee, no State officer, ex-
cept appointees by the governor, no State employee, no deputy of such
officers and no officer, or employee or the deputy of such officer of a
city, county or town shall be eligible to the office of division superin-
tendent of schools.
Section 651. The term of office of the division superintendent
shall be four years from the first day of July following his appoint-
ment.

The office of any division superintendent shall be deemed vacant
upon his engaging in any other business or employment during his term
of office as such superintendent, unless such superintendent shall have
been accepted for part time employment, his resignation or his removal
from office by the State board of education, or other appointing power.
Every division superintendent, before entering upon the discharge of
his office, shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed for all officers
of the State, which oath shall be made and subscribed before a circuit
or corporation court having jurisdiction in his division, or before the
judge or clerk thereof in vacation. As soon as the oath shall have
been taken, subscribed and certified, a minute of the fact shall be en-
tered in the records of said court and a certificate of the clerk, setting
forth the qualifications and its record shall be furnished the superin-
tendent of public instruction for record in his office.

Section 653. In each county there shall be a board, to be known
as the school trustee electoral board, which shall be composed of three
resident qualified voters, who are not county or State officers, to be
appointed by the circuit court of each county, or the judge thereof in
vacation, within thirty days after the first day of July, nineteen hun-
dred and thirty, and every four years thereafter. The said members
of the trustee electoral board shall each receive a per diem of two
dollars for each day actually employed, to be paid out of the county
school fund. Any vacancy occurring within the term of the said ap-
pointees shall be filled by the circuit court, or the judge thereof in
vacation, within thirty days thereafter. The county school board shall
consist of one member appointed from each school district in the
county by the school trustee electoral board, provided in towns con-
stituting separate school districts and operated by a school board of
three members, one of said members shall be designated by the town
board as a member of the county school board. Before any appoint-
ment is made by the electoral board it shall give notice, by publication
for two successive weeks, in a newspaper having general circulation in
such county of the time and place of any meeting for the purpose of
appointing the members of the county school board.

The members so appointed shall constitute the county school board,
and every such board is hereby declared a body corporate, under the
style of the county schocl board of.......2.22....2....-- county, and may, in
its corporate capacity, sue or be sued, contract or be contracted with,
and, in general, is vested with all the powers, and charged with all the
duties, obligations and responsibilities imposed upon such board as
such by law. The members of the county school board shall be ap-
pointed on or before July first, nineteen ‘hundred and twenty-eight,
and on or before July first of every four years thereafter, and shall hold
office for a term of four years, and thereafter until their successors
have been appointed and have qualified. Any vacancy in the county
school board shall be filled by appointment by the trustee electoral
board. The present trustee electoral board and county school boards
now in office, shall continue to hold office until their successors have
been appointed and qualified. All of such school trustees shall qualify
before the county clerk, by taking the oath prescribed for State officers.
The county school board may in its discretion provide for a per diem
not exceeding five dollars per day for each member for each day he is
in attendance upon meetings of the board, not to exceed twenty days
in any one year, such per diem to be paid as other school expenses are
paid. Provided that in counties adjacent to cities having, according
to the last United States census, a population of one hundred thousand
or more, and in counties having a density of population of more than
five hundred per square mile the county school board may pay each ot
its members an annual salary of three hundred dollars, payable in equal
monthly installments.

For the purpose of representation each magisterial district shall,
except where otherwise provided by law, constitute a separate school
district, but for all other school purposes, taxation, management, con-
trol, and operation, the county shall be the unit, and the school affairs
of such county managed as if the county constituted but one school
district, provided, however, nothing in this section shall be construed
to prohibit the levying of a district tax to provide interest and sinking
fund for a district bond issue as provided in section six hundred and
seventy-three, or for the levying of a district tax on recommendation
of the county school board to pay existing district indebtedness. All
special school districts and special town school districts except the
special school district for the town of Leesburg, of Loudoun county
and of Lexington of Rockbridge county which are hereby preserved,
are hereby expressly abolished, except special town school districts
which are located in more than one county, which last mentioned dis-
tricts are hereby expressly retained as they exist at the present time,
provided, however, that other incorporated towns having a population
of not less than one thousand inhabitants, according to the last United
States census, may, by ordinance of the town council and by and with
the approval of the State board of education, be constituted separate
school districts either for the purpose of representation on the county
school board, or for the purpose of being operated as a separate school
district under a town school board of three members, appointed by the
town council. In the event that such a town district be set up, to be
operated by a board of three members, the members of such board
shall be appointed in accordance with section seven hundred and eighty
of the Code, providing for the appointment of trustees in cities and of
such members, one shall be designated by the town school board as a
member of the county school board and entitled to serve as a member
of said county board.

To such town district operated by a school board of. three members
the county school board shall pay over to the town treasurer if and
when properly bonded the amount derived from the county levy or
appropriation for school purposes a sum equal to the pro-rata amount
from such levy or appropriation derived from such town.
The State board of education is authorized to make loans from
the literary fund to the school board of a town constituting a separate
school district in the same manner as such loans are made to county and
city school boards as provided in section six hundred and thirty-six.

Nothing in this section however, shall be construed to prohibit the
board of supervisors in the counties of Sussex and Henrico from con-
tinuing to levy a district tax for the operation of the schools.

Section 655. The business relating to school matters shall be
transacted by the school board at its meetings held as provided by law.
At the first meeting of the school board, after the taking effect of this
section it shall elect one of its members chairman and on recommenda-
tion of the division superintendent, elect or appoint a competent per-
son as clerk of the school board, and shall fix his compensation. The
chairman and clerk shall be selected annually. The board shall meet
at such other times as necessity may require. The division superin-
tendent shall be present at all meetings of the school board.

Section 660. It shall be the duty of the school board to see that
the school laws are properly explained, enforced and observed: to
make local regulations for the conduct of the schools and for the
proper discipline of the student, which shall include their conduct
going to and returning from school, but such local rules and regula-
tions shall be in harmony with the general rules of the State board of
education and the statutes of this State. The school board shall em-
ploy teachers and place them in appropriate schools on recommenda-
tion of the division superintendent, and shall dismiss teachers when de-
linquent, inefficient, or otherwise unworthy. The division superinten-
dent shall have authority to assign to their respective positions all
teachers and principals employed by the board, and to reassign them,
provided no change or reassignment shall affect the salary of such
teachers ; and provided, further, that he shall make appropriate reports
and explanations on the request of the board. No teacher shall be
employed or paid from the public funds, unless such teacher holds a
certificate in full force in accordance with the rules of certification
laid down by the State board of education. If the school board vio-
lates these provisions, the individual members thereof shall be person-
ally liable to refund to the local treasury any amounts paid in violation
of this law, and such funds shall be recovered from members by action
or suit in the name of the Commonwealth at the relation of the attor-
ney for the Commonwealth; such funds when recovered, to be paid
into the local treasury for the use of the public schools.

Section 673. Whenever it shall be necessary for a county to erect
a school house, it shall be lawful for the school board of such county
to contract a loan for said purpose, on the credit of the county, in
the manner other loans are authorized to be contracted by sections
twenty-seven hundred and thirty-eight, twenty-seven hundred and thir-
ty-nine, twenty-seven hundred and forty and twenty-seven hundred
and forty-one of the Code of Virginia; provided, that when such school
house is erected at the expense of the school district, or of two or more
school districts, the election provided for by the Code sections re-
ferred to in this section shall be held only in the district or districts,
against which such buildings will be a charge; and provided, further,
that in such case the tax sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds,
and the sinking fund to redeem the same, shall be levied in such school
district, or districts, only. In all other respects the procedure shall
be as required by said Code sections.

Section 678. The school board shall have the same power to sell
or exchange and convey the real and personal school property of the
county as the board of supervisors has with reference to the power of
sale, exchange and conveyance of other county property under section
twenty-seven hundred and twenty-three of the Code, provided that
property not exceeding five hundred dollars in value may be sold by
the school board after advertising for not exceeding ten days or by
appropriate hand bills posted at ten or more public places in said coun-
tv at least three of which shall be posted in the neighborhood of said
school.

Section 682. The public schools, except as otherwise provided,
shall be free to all persons between the ages of seven and twenty years
residing within the county, or city, including the children of persons
residing on any Federal military or naval reservation located wholly or
partially, within the geographical boundaries of such county or city.
Persons six years of age may be admitted to primary grades and per-
sons under six years of age to such kindergartens as may be established
by local school authorities and operated as a part of the public school
system. Such kindergartens shall not be entitled to participate in the
State school fund, but shall be supported by the local authorities. The
school board, in its discretion may admit as pupils into any of the
public schools, persons between the ages of twenty and twenty-five
years on the prepayment of tuition fees, under regulations to be pre-
scribed by the State board of education, provided the admission of
such pupils will not in the opinion of the board, impair the usefulness
and efficiency of such school. The board in any county or city where
day schools are conducted for eight or more months each year may, in
its discretion, establish and conduct night schools to which may be
admitted pupils, regardless of age. The State board of education shall
have power, and it shall be its duty, to make regulations whereby the
children of one county may attend school in an adjoining county, or
an adjoining city.

Section 684. Within fifteen days after the opening of the school,
each principal teacher shall report to the division superintendent the
names of the pupils enrolled in the school, giving age, grade and the
name and address of parent or guardian. With such list shall be sub-
mitted another list giving to the best of the principal teacher’s infor-
mation the names of all children within the ages of seven and fifteen
years, or within the ages of eight and sixteen years when the local
board, pursuant to the provisions of section six hundred and eighty-
three of the Code, has fixed such limits as to the ages of attendance,
who reside within two miles of the school or within one mile of a wagon
route and who are not enrolled in the school. The division superin-
tendent shall check these lists with the last school census and with
reports from the bureau of vital statistics. From these reports and
from any other reliable source the superintendent shall, within fifteen
days, make a list of the names of children who are not enrolled in any
school, and who are not exempt from school attendance. It shall be
the duty of the division superintendent, or the attendance officer, if
one be employed to investigate all cases of non-enrollment and, when
no valid reason is found therefor, to notify the parent, guardian or
other person having control of the child, to require the attendance of
such child at the school within five days from the date of such notice.
A list of persons so notified shall be sent by the superintendent of
schools, or the attendance officer, if there is one, to the principal teacher
of the school. If the parent, guardian or other person having control
of the child or children fails, within the specified time, to comply with
the law, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and each day’s failure
shall constitute a separate offense. For such offense, it shall be the
duty of the division superintendent or the chief attendance officer, if
there be one, to make complaint in the name of the Commonwealth
before the juvenile and domestic relations court of his city or county,
if there be one. If there be no such juvenile and domestic relations
court in his city or county, then the prosecution shall be instituted
against such person in the circuit or corporation court of the county or
city in which the offense occurred, and, in addition thereto, such child
or children may be proceeded against as a neglected child or children
in the manner provided by chapter seventy-eight of the Code, as
amended.

Section 695. At a time to be designated by the superintendent of
public instruction, prior to July first, nineteen hundred and thirty, and
every five years thereafter, a census of all persons between the ages of
seven and twenty years, residing within each county and city, shall be
taken on forms furnished by the superintendent of public instruction.
Said census shall be taken by agents appointed by the county school
boards in counties and the school boards in cities, on the recommenda-
tion of the division superintendent, and each agent shall receive as com-
pensation for his services, to be paid out of the county school funds, an
amount to be fixed by the board appointing him, not to exceed six
dollars per hundred of the children listed by him, subject to abatement,
on the discovery before, or after the settlement of the account, of
errors or omissions in the list; provided, that in the discretion of the
local board a reasonable travel allowance may be allowed such agents.
The agents mentioned in this section shall also, at the time of taking
the census aforesaid, gather statistics relating to the interests of edu-
cation in their respective districts, according to forms furnished by the
superintendent of public instruction. The list required by this section
shall be submitted for careful revision to the county board or the city
school board as soon as may be after their completion, and shall, at
all times, be open to the inspection of any citizen. When so revised,
they shall be submitted with any other information required or deemed
necessary, to the division superintendent, who shall forthwith transmit
same to the State board of education. The State board of education
is authorized to require a special census at any time it deems such
census necessary for the equitable distribution of State school funds.

Section 778. The official care and authority of the school board
shall cover all territory included in the corporate limits of the city
or town constituting a separate school district, and also shall cover all
school property located without and contiguous to the corporate’ limits
of such city or town, when the title to said property is vested either
in the school board of such city, as a body corporate, or in the city.
The majority of its members shall constitute a quorum. It shall make
by-laws and regulations for its own government and for the manage-
ment of its official business, so far as they do not conflict with the pro-
visions of the law.

Section 780. The council of each city except as otherwise provided
by the city charter shall except where the charter of the city provides
otherwise, on or before July first, nineteen hundred and thirty, appoint
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. The first appointment hereunder shall be one for one year, one
for two years, and one for three years, beginning July first, nineteen
hundred and thirty, and thereafter all appointments shall be for three
years. 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 with-
in the like number of days preceding the day on which the term of any
trustee shall expire by limitation in any subsequent vear, such council
shall appoint a successor to each such trustee in office, whose term
shall commence when the term of predecessor shall have expired; pro-
vided, the office of any such trustee has not been abolished in redis-
tricting the city; and, provided, that in the city of Richmond and the
city of Norfolk trustees shall be appointed in accordance with the pro-
visions of this act rather than in accordance with the provisions of
the city charter, and 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

That all acts heretofore done by the school board of the city of
Winchester are hereby validated. All trustees now in office shall con-
tinue in office until July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one and
thereafter until their successors have been appointed and have qualified.