Excerpt from Virginia School Laws: Codified for the Use of School Officers by Order of the State Board of Education; To Be Preserved by Each Officer and Delivered to His Successor While this edition of the school law possesses no authority independent of the sources from which it was compiled, its publication by the Board of Education makes the work authoritative as a guide to school officers. The act of Assembly which gave the school system organic life was approved July 11, 1870. The history of subsequent legislation affecting the schools can be readily traced from chapters LXVI and LXVII of the Codes of Virginia 1887 and 1904, which constitute the basis of the "Public Free School Law." The text of Pollard's Code of 1904 has been followed, except in so far as it has been modified by legislation since its publication. Acts of Assembly passed subsequent to that date (1904) are incorporated with the original law. All acts of a local character are omitted, and only such acts pertaining to State institutions of higher learning have been included as are of interest to the school officials at large. The compiler has endeavored to arrange the matter for the convenience of school officers, without regard to the order in which it is printed in the Code. It is the duty of every school officer receiving a copy of the law to preserve it carefully, and to transmit it to his successor in office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.