Sec. 4. For the purpose of procuring proper grounds, and for 2 erecting and equipping suitable buildings thereon for said high 3 school, said board of directors may lay a levy of not exceeding 4 twenty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property for 5 taxable purpose for the year following the adoption of this act as 6 hereinafter provided for, and for the next three years following; 7 and not to exceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars valuation 8 for such purposes for each subsequent year thereafter; and for 9 maintaining said school said board of dirctors shall lay a levy, not 10 to exceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars valuation for each 11 year thereafter. Sec. 5. The qualifications for admission to said county high 2 school shall be subject to such regulations as may be prescribed 3 by the said board of directors. Sec. 6. All revenue from taxation as provided herein shall be 2 collected and disbursed by the sheriff of said county in the man3 ner provided by general law. Sec. 7. The members of said board of directors shall be allowed 2 a compensation of four dollars per day for their services for the 3 time they are actually employed in transacting the business of said. 4 high school, not to exceed fifteen days in any one year. Sec. 8. But before this act shall take effect, it shall be sub2 mitted to the voters of Wirt county at a special election ordered by 3 the county court of said county of Wirt and general notice of said 4 election shall be published in two newspapers of opposite politics 5 and general circulation in said county, for four successive weeks 6 preceding said election, if there be two such newspapers that will 7 publish the same at the legal rate for such publications; but if 8 there be no such newspapers that will publish such notice at such 9 rate, then such notice may be posted at three of the most public 10 places in each magisterial district in said county for a like period 11 of time. 12 Said county court shall provide a ballot bearing the names of 13 the candidates for members of said board of directors and also 14 bearing thereon the words "For county high school", and "Against 15 county high school," and if a majority of the votes cast at said. 16 election be in favor of said county high school, then this act shall 17 be of binding force and effect from the time of the official an18 nouncement of said vote. Said election shall be conducted in the 19 manner provided by law for the conducting of general elections. 20 If this act should fail to carry at such special election it may be 21 re-submitted at the next general election following. CHAPTER 51 (Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 112.) (By the Committee on Education.) AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections one hundred and forty-eight and one hundred and forty-nine of chapter two of the acts of the legislature of West Virginia, regular session, of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. [Passed April 26, 1921. In effect from passage. May 2, 1921.] SEC. SEC. Name Approved by the Governor of West Virginia trades school at Montgomery changed to the "New River State school;" to remain where now located; how governed; instruction offered. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That sections one hundred and forty-eight and one hundred and forty-nine of chapter two of the acts of the legislature of West Virginia, regular session, of one thousand nine hundred and nineteen be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows. Potomac State School. Section 148. The preparatory branch of the state university 2 heretofore established at Keyser in Mineral county shall remain 3 where now located and on and after the first day of July, one 4 thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, shall be known as the 5 "Potomac State School" which shall be under the control and 6 management of the state board of education as provided by section seven of this chapter and of the state board of control as 8 provided by section four of chapter fifteen-m of Barnes' code of 9 one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. The rules and regula10 tions made by the principal and teachers of this institution for its 11 general government shall be submitted to the state board of edu12 cation for its approval. Said state school shall offer instruction 13 in agriculture, home economics, industrial subjects and such other 14 subjects as the state board of education may direct. The legis15 lature shall make the necessary appropriation for the financial sup16 port of said institution. 17 Chapter seventy of the acts of the legislature of one thousand 18 nine hundred and seventeen, regular session, is hereby repealed. The New River State School. Sec. 149. The West Virginia trades school heretofore estab2 lished at Montgomery in Fayette county shall remain where lo 3 cated and on and after the first day of July, one thousand nine 4 hundred and twenty-one, shall be known as the "New River State 5 School" which shall be under the control and management of the 6 state board of education as provided by section seven of this chap7 ter and of the state board of control as provided by section four 8 of chapter fifteen-m of Barnes' code of one thousand nine hundred 9 and sixteen. The rules and regulations made by the principal and 10 teachers of this institution for its general government shall be 11 submitted to the state board of education for its approval. Said 12 state school shall offer instructions in home economics, indus13 trial subjects, and such other subjects as the state board of edu14 cation may direct. The legislature shall make the necessary ap15 propriation for the financial support of said institution. 16 All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re17 pealed. CHAPTER 52 (House Bill No. 234-Mr. Wysong.) AN ACT authorizing and empowering the state board of control to grant to the public an easement or right of way over and upon a certain parcel of land owned by the state of West Virginia, in the county of Mercer, in said state, upon which is located the Concord state normal building, for a public passway. [Passed April 26, 1921. In effect ninety days from passage. Approved by the Governor May 2, 1921.] SEC. 1. State board of control authorized to grant and dedicate a public passway over and upon certain parcel of land; restrictions on. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia : Section 1. That the state board of control is hereby authorized 2 and empowered to grant and dedicate to the public, by proper and 3 apt deed, upon such terms and conditions as to the said board shall 4 seem proper, an easement and right of way upon and over a cer5 tain parcel of land owned by the state of West Virginia at the 6 town of Athens, West Virginia, which was conveyed to the state 7 of West Virginia by Stephen F. Vermillion and Rhoda A. Ver8 million, his wife, by deed bearing date the first day of March, one 9 thousand nine hundred and eleven, and recorded in the office of the 10 clerk of the county court of Mercer county, West Virginia, in 11 deed book number seventy-eight at page fifty, for the use of said 12 public as a passway over and upon said parcel of land at such 13 point as to said board shall seem practical, and with such reserva14 tions and restrictions as in the judgment of said board may be 15 proper and necessary; said passway not to be of greater width 16 than thirty feet nor less width than twelve feet. CHAPTER 53 (House Bill No. 3-Mr. McClintic, of Kanawha.) AN ACT to amend and re-enact section two of chapter one hundred and fifteen of the acts of the legislature of West Virginia, regular session, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen entitled “An act authorizing the establishment of a school teachers' retirement pension fund for the Charleston independent school district, of Charleston." [Passed April 5, 1921. In effect from passage. Approved by the Governor April 9, 1921.] SEC. 2. Teachers' pension fund; of what Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That section two of chapter one hundred and fifteen of the acts of the legislature of West Virginia, regular session, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, be and the same is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: Section 2. Said fund if so established, shall be made up of (a) 2 such sums as said board of education shall from time to time ap3 propriate for the benefit of said fund from the school funds of the 4 Charleston independent school district; (b) such donations, lega5 cies and gifts as shall at any time be made for the benefit of said 6 fund. CHAPTER 54 (House Bill No. 503-Mr. McClintic, of Kanawha.) AN ACT to amend and re-enact section ninety-eight-a-two section ninety-eight-a-four and section ninety-eight-a-eleven of chapter three of Barnes' code edition of one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, in reference to registration. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That sections ninety-eight-a-two, ninety-eight-a-four and ninetyeight-a-eleven of chapter three of Barnes' code of West Virginia, edition of one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Section 98-a-2. The county court shall cause to be prepared 2 suitable books and blanks for the registration of voters and the 3 facts required by this act, and the clerk of said county court shall 4 distribute said books and blanks to the registrars of the respective 5 voting precincts. The books aforesaid shall be so arranged as to 6 admit of the alphabetical classification of the names of the voters 7 and ruled in parallel columns, on which the registrar shall enter, 8 first, the number; second, the names of the persons registered; 9 third, color; fourth, political affiliation; fifth, age; sixth, place of 10 birth; seventh, time of residence in precinct, county and state; 11 eighth, if naturalized, the date of the papers and the court by 12 which issued; ninth, date of registration; tenth, place of residence. 13 Any registrar violating any of the provisions of this section shall 14 be fined not less than fifty dollars and confined in jail not less 15 than thirty days. Examination of Applicant for Registration; Who Registered. Sec. 98-a-4. Before the registrars shall register the name of 2 any person as a qualified voter, they must be satisfied of his qual3 ifications, or have him make and subscribe the affidavit as here4 inafter provided, showing his right to register, and for the pur5 pose of this act they are hereby given authority to administer 6 oaths and they may require the person desiring to register to 7 answer under oath the following questions: 8 One. Are you a citizen of the United States. 9 Two. Are you a native or naturalized citizen? If the person 10 offering to be registered claims to be a naturalized citizen of the 11 United States he shall produce for the inspection of the officer of 12 registration a certificate or other evidence of his naturalization 13 and also state, under oath, or affirmation, that he is the identical |