are doing. Dr. Curry promises us Peabody medals again and we hope to induce him to give us at least one silver medal. When you organize your schools call the attention of your teachers and their pupils to the exhibit. Remember that you all complained last year that you had not time to do yourselves and your schools justice." That excuse will not pass this year. We want you to commence now, there is no time to lose. The paper will be sent you by the time you get the schools alive to what you want. The exhibition will embrace the same line of work as that of last year. Arrange so as to have a county exhibition before you forward the work to this Department. Substitute Teachers. No teacher is eligible to act as a substitute until he has complied with all the laws which prescribe the qualification of a regular teacher, to-wit: must be of suitable age; must hold the superintendent's certificate in full force and cannot act as substitute without the sanction of the board of trustees which controls said school. Any teacher may engage a substitute for a limited time with the permission of the board of trustees, but all reports must be made out in the name of the regular teacher, and the substitute must look to the regular teacher for pay. New Orleans. We have received a circular from the Hon. Warren Easton, State Superintendent of Louisiana, informing us that he will have charge of the educational exhibits at the great Exhibition which opens at New Orleans the first of November next, and inviting us to contribute. From the Conference exhibits we will be able to make a much more creditable display than we did last year. If any superintendent, trustee, or teacher, has a specially fine piece of work done by any of the pupils of our public free schools on any of the subjects named in the Conference circular, we will be glad if they will forward it at once, as we are anxious to make our collections as good as it is possible. County Histories. We hope the superintendents who have not sent the school history of their counties will do so at once. It is important-we want to complete the series. We have received letters from several superintendents asking what we want in these school histories, from which we infer they are ready to put in anything we may suggest, which, of course, would not be history. We want a history of every educational event that has transpired in the several counties from their organization up to the present time; whether the education was public or private; reminiscences of the old teachers—the ones who shaped the minds of the grandest men this country has ever produced. Do your best, and you may make for yourselves reputations as historians. Teacher Wanted For a first-class Country School. Male Teacher preferred. Address L. A. MARSTON, Roxbury, Charles City County, Virginia. SCHOOL LAW OF VIRGINIA. (Continued from page 331.) 187. Such donations shall be irrevocable by the donor or his representatives; but if the authorities of the University, within one year after being notified thereof (which it shall be the duty of the treasurer to do immediately upon the making of such deposit with him), shall give notice in writing to the treasurer that they decline to receive the benefit of such deposit, the same, with whatever interest and profits may have accrued thereon, shall thereupon be held subject to the order of such donor or his legal representatives; and if at any time the object for which such donation or deposit is intended, by the legal destruction of the University, or by any other means, shall fail, so that the purpose of the gift, bequest or devise shall be permanently frustrated, the whole fund, principal and interest, then unexpended, as it shall then be, shall revert to, and be vested in, the said donor, or his legal representatives. 188. If the donor shall, in such writing filed as aforesaid, reserve to himself or to any other person the power to nominate to any professorship, scholarship, or other place or appointment in the University, or to do any other act connected therewith, and he or such other person shall fail at any time for six months to make such nomination in writing, or to do such other act, the board of visitors may proceed to make such appointment, or to do such act at their discretion. 189. The state of Virginia is hereby constituted the trustee for the safe keeping and due application of all funds which may be deposited in the treasury in pursuance of this act. The treasurer, and the sureties in his official bond, shall be liable for the money or other funds deposited as herein provided, and separate accounts of each such deposit shall be kept by the accounting officers of the state in the same manner as of other public funds. Colleges and academies; visitors or trustees to make report. 190. The visitors, trustees, or other body having the government of any college or academy established in this state, shall annually, before the first day of October, make a report to the second auditor, showing the condition of such college or academy, the state of its funds, the amount of its revenue, and the sources whence derived, its accommodations for and the number of its teachers and pupils, its fees of tuition, and the branches of learning taught in the institution.* *By act passed February 25, 1854, the Medical College of Virginia at Richmond was incorporated. After the first board of visitors, when vacancies occur, the governor supplies the same, selecting the visitors from each of the grand divisions of the state. The visitors and the faculty are required to make an annual report to the second auditor, such as is required by this section, Acts 1853–4, p. 26, c. 37. All such reports are required to be made on or before the 1st of October, annually. See Code 1873, c. 57, 44, 45. The word "October" in this section has been substituted for the word "November." The act of 1859-60 appropriates $30,000 for the purpose of enlarging the hospital or infirmary, for extending the college buildings, and for improvement and extension of the college museum: but the appropriation is not to take effect until the college shall convey all its property to the literary 191. If no such report is made from any college or academy which receives any portion of the revenues of the literary fund, or to which any loan has been made out of the said fund, the second auditor shall withhold (until the report is made) the pay ment of such portion of the literary fund, or proceed to enforce payment of the said loan. Payment of interest on state stock to colleges and seminaries of learning. 192. The second auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw upon the public treasury in favor of the proper authorities of any incorporated college or other institution or seminary of learning, academies or manual labor school in this state, or the trustees may hold obligations of this state for any such college, or other insti tution or seminary of learning, academies or manual labor school, or any department thereof, for all interest which has accrued, or which may hereafter accrue, and as the same may fall due, upon all obligations of the commonwealth, or the James River and Kanawha company guaranteed by the commonwealth, held by or for said college or other institution or seminary of learning, academies, or manual labor school, or to which they may have been entitled on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, so long as they may continue to hold the same: provided no interest shall be paid upon any bonds, the payment of which is forbidden by the constitution. 193. The provisions of this act shall apply to the obligations of the state known as the Dawson fund, held by the literary iund in trust for educational purposes; and also to the dividends on the stock of the old James River company, due and payable or which may hereafter become due and payable by the commonwealth to such college, or other institution or seminary of learning, and held as set forth in the first section. Scholarships; how established. 194. The board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute,* and the visitors or trustees of the University of Virginia, and the colleges of William and Mary,† fund, by deed to be prepared by the attorney-general and approved by the governor. Acts 1859-60, p. 104. By act passed February 26, 1866, (Acts 1865-6, c. 331, p. 438), the sum of fifteen hundred dollars was appropriated for repairs and insurance of the public buildings belonging to the college, and for replacing apparatus destroyed by the troops of the United States. By act of 1865-6, c. 130, p. 224, amended by act of 1871-2, c. 69, p. 48, the land scrip donated by congress to the state was directed to be sold and the proceeds, by a subsequent act (1871-2, c. 234, p. 312), were appropriated in the proportion of one third to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, in the county of Elizabeth City, and the remaining two-thirds to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College at Blacksburg, in the county of Montgomery. These acts are inserted in chapter 77, Code of 1873. In 1871-2 an act was passed to incorporate Jefferson College, in the county of Giles; required to report its condition to the Board of Education. Acts 1871-2, c. 180, p. 240. See also act to incorporate Norwood College. Acts 1871–2. c. 208, p. 270. * The laws relating to this institution are to be found in Code 1873, c 31. Those relating to the University of Virginia, in chapter 80, 1 to 14 inclusive. By an act passed April 16, 1870, (Acts 1869-70, c. 51, p. 62), the annuity to the institute for the year 1870 was made payable in advance. A similar act was passed in 1871 (Acts 1870-71, c. 300, p 324). In 1660-61 it was directed that land be obtained for a college (Hen. Stat.. vol 1, p 25, c. 29), and that a petition be drawn up to the king for letters patent-to gather the charity of people in England -(Id, p. 30, c 35). The governor, council of state, and burgesses severally subscribed considerable sums of money and quantities of tobacco; and it was ordered that the commissioners of the county courts subscribe, and that they and the vestries of the parishes take the subscriptions of others.-Id., Hampden Sidney,* Washington,† Randolph-Macon, Henry and Emory, and Richmond, may respectively establish scholarships in such institute, university, and colleges under such regulation as they may prescribe.? Funds therefor to be invested; donations irrevocable; donor's right to nominate pupils. 195. Whenever any persons shall deposit in the treasury of the state, or bequeath money to be so deposited, or devise or bequeath property to be sold, and the proceeds so deposited, for the benefit of such institute, university colleges and academy, to such an amount that the interest thereof will be sufficient to educate and maintain thereat one or more cadets or students, the said fund shall be invested in state stock in the name and for the benefit of such institution. Such donation shall be irrevocable, but the donor, or his heirs, or their guardian, if they be under twenty-one years of age, shall have the right to nominate and place in such institution one or more cadets or students, according to the regulations aforesaid. Provision, if donor fail to nominate. 196. If such donor or his heirs, or such guardian, shall fail for one year to nominate as aforesaid, the said board of visitors, or trustees, may appropriate the income of the said fund to the education and maintenance of indigent cadets or students, to be selected by them from the state at large. How society of alumni may provide a scholarship. 197. The society of alumni of any institution aforesaid may provide for and maintain a scholarship therein, by annual contributions, under such regulations as may be prescribed as aforesaid. 37. Under a charter, bearing date the 8th of February, in the fourth year of the reign of William and Mary, the college was established by this name, near the church then standing in Middle plantation old fields.-3 Hen. Stat., 122, c. 3. Other acts were afterwards passed for the better support of the college.-11., p. 123, c. 4; vol. 4, p. 74, c. 3; p. 148, c. 1, 220; p. 432-3, c. 15. 29, 10; vol. 5, p. 236, c. 9; p. 317, c. 1, 18,; vol. 6. p. 91, c. 35; vol. 7, p. 285, c. 13, 2; vol. 8, p. 335, c 6. Under its charter, the college had a representative in the general assembly-Id., vol. 7, p. 529, c 1, 27; vol. 8, p. 317, c. 1, 24. It was deprived of this in 1776 by the operation of the constitution -Id., vol. 9, p. 55, c. 4, 24; note, p 114, art. 5 After the revolution there was vested in it the land adjoining Williamsburg, called the palace lands, and some other property not required for public uses (Id, vol. 11, p. 406, c. 34, 3); and for some time there was appropriated to it a sixth part of the surveyor's fees (Id., p. 310, c. 4, 1). The reservation to the college of a part of the surveyor's fees, as well as that of certain counties in favor of Randolph Academy, was struck out at toe revisal of 1819; see 1 R, C., p. 324, note recited. The charter of the college is recited in the case of Bracken v The College, 3 Call, 673; 1 Call161; a case involving the power of the visitors to change the schools and put down profes-orships. *The college of Hampden Sydney was incorporated by an act of May, 1783 See 11 Hen. Stat., 272, c. 28, and 1 Munf. 324. + By an act approved February 4, 1871 (Acts 1870-71, c. 64, p. 60 to 62), the charter of Washington College was modified, and the name thereof changed to Washington and Lee University. See also Acts 1865-6, c 323, p. 433 to 435. By act approved March 29, 1871 (Acts 1870-71, c 224, p. 326), the sum of $110.16 was refunded to Randolph-Macon College for taxes illegally assessed upon the college property. The words "Bethany ani Rector, and the Northwestern Academy in Harrison county," are omitted. These institutions are now located in West Virginia. |