should be collected and paid promptly to those who hold school warrants. Teachers are urged not to become alarmed about their salaries; for, in any event, their warrants are good for their face value against taxes due the State, and whilst we know that every teacher wants his or her pay, still it is bad policy to let their warrants be shaved by the money-lender and sharper, as it tends to depreciate their value and to lessen the amount received by the teachers. Wanted. R. B. Williams, of New Haven, Conn., writes us desiring a position as Principal of a colored school in this State for the coming session, we call attention to his application and as to his qualifications quote from his letter, as follows: "I shall receive my degree from Yale College next June, at that time having completed the full course of four years. My preparation for college I made at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., where I spent three years receiving an excellent fit. I graduated from that institution in June, 1881. I am also a graduate of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. As to my competency, I take pleasure in referring to General Armstrong, my former Principal, and to President Noah Porter, of Yale College, under whose direct instruction I am now." Our Students at Nashville College. We are glad to see by the following report of President Stearns for the period ending March 13th, 1885, that our students are improving. A majority of the grades reported are satisfactory; and those who are behind must take heart and make a stronger effort; for, unless they do better, under the rules of the institution, they will be at a great disadvantage, to say nothing of what they owe to their State and the Peabody Trustees. HON. R. R. FARR, UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE, State Superintendent of Public Instruction: Dear Sir, I beg leave herewith, to transmit for your inspection, a statement of the average rank, etc., of the students from Virginia holding Peabody Scholarships at the Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn., for the period ending March 13th, 1885. Seventy-five is a fair average and entitles the student to continuance in his class and progress with it. Engagement Desired by One of Our Nashville Students. Miss Mary Rohleder, who will soon graduate at the State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn., desires position in the public schools of Virginia, as teacher of a grade not lower than intermediate. She refers to Major E. B. Branch, Superintendent of Schools for the City of Petersburg, and to Miss A. B. Bolling, Principal of High School, Petersburg. It will be seen by reference to the published report of President Stearns, of the standing of our students at the Nashville College, that Miss Rohleder stands well in her examinations. We hope her services may be secured by some of our school authorities. SCHOOL LAW OF VIRGINIA. (Continued from page 91.) 137. At the annual meeting in August in each year, the county school board shall compare the warrants issued by each district board with those issued by the county or corporation superintendent and report the result to the state superintendent of schools. 138. The auditor of public accounts shall furnish to the several superintendents of schools blank warrants, as follows: This certificate shall be paid by the county treasurer on whom drawn, at its face value, in preference to other warrants when signed by 139. Should there be found, upon the collection of taxes, an amount greater than the approximate amount hereinbefore provided, due to the public free schools of the state for any one year, then the excess due the schools shall be distributed as now provided by law, and nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with the same. 140. The auditor of public accounts is hereby directed and required, on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and each three months thereafter, to turn over to the second auditor the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars in currency out of the proceeds of the license taxes, and continue to make these quarterly pay. ments without further order, demand, or requisition, until full payment shall have been made of all arrearages due from capitation and property taxes, and all other sources, by mandate of the constitution and laws made in pursuance thereof, for the support of the public free school system for the years eighteen hundred and seventyone, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen hundred and seventyeight, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eighteen hundred and eighty (with legal interest thereon, computed from the end of each year without compounding), which when paid in as herein provided, shall be annually appropriated amongst the several cities, counties and towns of the commonwealth as other school funds are appropriated and supplied. 141. Chapter two hundred and forty-eight of the acts of assembly of eighteeen hundred and seventy-seven-eight, and chapter one hundred and seventy-seven of the acts of assembly of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight-nine, be and the same are hereby repealed. To return to the public free schools a portion of the moneys diverted therefrom. 142. Whereas the Board of Public Works of Virginia, by contract dated February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, sold to U. L. Boyce and F. J. Kimball, acting for themselves and their associates, all the rights, title, and interest of the state of Virginia in or to, or against the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad company, by virtue of the covenant or mortgage executed by said company, dated December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, upon certain terms as to payment, and subject to the ratification of the general assembly; and whereas afterwards, to-wit, on the tenth day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty one, Clarence H. Clarke, on behalf of himself and his associates, including said Boyce and Kimball, became the purchasers of the said Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad at a foreclosure sale thereof, made under decree of the ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, in the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Virginia, in the cause of Frances Skiddy and others, trustees, vs. The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad company and others, therein pending, and said parties proceeded to reorganize said railroad company under the name of the Norfolk and Western railroad company, whereby and by virtue of sundry assignments the benefits of said contract of February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, now enure and belong to said Norfolk and Western railroad company; and whereas by an act passed —, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the general assembly of Virginia has ratified and confirmed said contract, and allowed the Norfolk and Western railroad company until the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to complete the payment of said five hundred thousand dollars to the Board of Public Works of Virginia; and whereas out of the revenues assessed for the years eighteen hundred and seventy to eighteen hundred and seventy-nine inclusive, a sum amounting to one million five hundred and four thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents, and dedicated by sections seven and eight of article eight of the constitution of Virginia, to the public free school fund, was diverted to other purposes prior to the year eighteen hundred and eighty, as appears by reference to Senate document number twelve, Senate Journal, and so forth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nineeighty, whereof, up to the present time, the sum of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, due to the public free school fund, has been restored to said funds; and whereas the general assembly conceives it to be its paramount duty under the constitution to restore to said public free school fund as speedily as possible the amount so as aforesaid from it diverted; therefore, day of BECKWITH & PARHA M. 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