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1893-4.
Chapter 588. An ACT to provide for the establishment and
maintenance of state summer normal schools and to make an appropriation
therefor. Approved March 3, 1894.
"1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
sum of $2500 is hereby annually appropriated, payable out of any
amount appropriated out of the general fund of the State for public
free school purposes, for the establishment and maintenance of state
summer and normal schools, for the better equipment of the teachers
in the public schools of this state.
2. The purpose of said normal schools shall be to familiarize
the teachers in the public schools of this state with more advanced
methods of teaching and to furnish such additional academic training
as will tend to promote the usefulness of the public schools.
3. The said summer normal schools shall be conducted under
the general management of the board of education, and shall be
subject to the supervision of the Superintendent of public instruction,
who shall from time to time select the places of holding said normal
schools, the instructors therefor and regulate the course of instruction
to be pursued therein.
4. The said normal schools shall be held for a period of not
less than four weeks in each year, beginning on such day or days in
the summer vacation of the public schools as may be designated by
the Superintendent of public instruction. The sum hereby appropriated
shall be applied exclusively to the payment of instructors
and to other necessary expenses incident to the conduct of said
schools; provided, that all claims for services of instructors and
other necessary expenses shall be submitted to and approved by the
board of education, and when so approved shall be paid by warrants
of said board, drawn on the second auditor, and a separate account
of the receipts and disbursements on account of the appropriation
1894, and each succeeding year, the auditor of public accounts shall
turn over to the second auditor the sum of $2500 for deposit to the
credit of the board of education, the said sum to be expended by said
board in carrying out the purposes of this act as hereinbefore set
forth.
7. This act shall be in force from its passage." Acts 1893-4,
p. 655.
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