CHAPTER 717
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 4
Proposing amendment to § 141 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Agreed to by the Senate, January 25, 1952
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, January 30, 1952

Whereas, the proposed amendment to the Constitution of Virginia
hereinafter fully set forth, was agreed to by a majority of the member
elected to the two houses of the General Assembly at the session of ninetee
hundred fifty and referred to this, the next General Assembly, and pub
lished for three months, as required by the Constitution of Virginia, an
as shown by report of such publication by the Clerk of the House of Dele
gates; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, a majorit:
of the members elected to each house agreeing, that the following amend
ment to the Constitution of Virginia be and the same is hereby proposer
in conformity with the provisions of section one hundred ninety-six of th
Constitution, namely:

Strike from the Constitution of Virginia Section one hundred forty
one, which reads as follows:

§ 141. State appropriations prohibited to schools or institutions o
learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the State or some sub
division thereof; exceptions to rule.-—No appropriation of public fund
shall be made to any school or institution of learning not owned or ex
clusively controlled by the State or some political subdivision thereof; pro
vided, first, that the General Assembly may, in its discretion, continue th
appropriations to the College of William and Mary; second, that this sec
tion shall not be construed as requiring or prohibiting the continuance o:
discontinuance by the General Assembly of the payment of interest on cer
tain bonds held by certain schools and colleges as provided by an act of th
General Assembly, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundrec
ninety-two, relating to bonds held by schools and colleges; third, tha
counties, cities, towns, and districts may make appropriations to non
sectarian schools of manual, industrial, or technical training, and also t
any school or institution of learning owned or exclusively controlled by
such county, city, town, or school district.
And insert in lieu thereof the following:

§ 141. State appropriations prohibited to schools or institutions of
learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the State or some sub-
division thereof; exceptions to rule—No appropriation of public funds
shall be made to any school or institution of learning not owned or ex-
clusively controlled by the State or some political subdivision thereof ;
provided, first, that the General Assembly may appropriate funds to an
agency, or to a school or institution of learning owned or controlled by an
agency, created and established by two or more States under a joint agree-
ment to which this State is a party for the purpose of providing educa-
tional facilities for the citizens of the several States joining in such agree-
ment; second, that counties, cities, towns and districts may make appro-
priations to nonsectarian schools of manual, industrial, or technical train-
ing, and also to any school or institution of learning owned or exclusively
controlled by such county, city, town, or school district.