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1887-88.

Chapter 77. An ACT requiring educational institutions receiving
state appropriations to make annual reports to the board of
education. Approved January 12, 1888.

"1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
it shall be the duty of the president or chairman of the board of
visitors or trustees of every state institution, which is educational in
its character, to cause to be made out by the superintendent, president,
principal, or other proper officer of such institution, and forwarded
to the office of the Superintendent of public instruction on or before
the first day of October of each year, a report for the year ending
the thirtieth of June preceding. Said report shall set forth the
condition and progress of said institutions; the number of professors,
assistant teachers, and other officers, and the compensation
of each; the whole number of students in attendance; the courses
of instruction, academic, professional or technical, the means and
methods of instruction; the number of students in the different
classes; the terms of tuition; the number of students admitted free
of charge for tuition; the kind and amount of all funds and endowments
yielding an income; the annual income from all sources
and the items thereof; the amount of expenditures and the items
thereof; and such other information as may be deemed necessary

to a full exhibit of the affairs and conditions of said institutions.
Said reports shall be embodied in the annual report of the Superintendent
of public instruction to the board of Education, to be by
the president of said board laid before the General Assembly of
Virginia.

2. All acts and parts of acts requiring reports of said institutions
to be made otherwise than as specified in this act, are hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage." Acts 1887-8,
p. 12.

Chapter 419. An ACT to exempt the property of the international
committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, located
at the University of Virginia, from taxation. Approved
March 5, 1888.

"1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That all
real and personal property now owned, or hereafter acquired by the
international committee of the Young Men's Christian Association,
and located or held at or near the University of Virginia, shall be
exempt from all taxation: provided the said property is used exclusively
for the purpose of the association; and provided further
that the aggregate value therefore (sic) does not exceed the sum of
$150,000: and provided further that not more than ten acres of
land shall be exempted from taxation under this act.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage." Acts 1887-8,
p. 496.