Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-04-18
The law Securing the Public School Fund.

| The Law Securing the Public School Fund.
We publish below the text of the law
passed by the last legislature securing the
payments to the school fund. 1t is in brief
an Arrangement which pays the teachers
and so forth the States portion before the
money leaves the county or corporation in
| which 1t is collected:
Whereas. it is the duty of the legisla-
| ture 10 protect the fund set apart by the
constitution for the support OF the public
| free schools from impairment, therefore
|. Be it enacted, That the Auditor of
Public Accounts is hereby requested, i'm
mediately upon the receipt of the land and
prouertv books of the several Com mis-
sioners of the Revenue of the Common
wealth, to make a calculation OF the sum
total of all the funds applicable to public
free school purposes for Inc ensuing Year,
of which amount he shall report three
fourths thereof to the Superintendent of
Public Instruction as an approximate basis
for distribution; whereupon said Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction shall at
once make out and furnish to the Auditor
of Public Accounts a diStrlbutive state
ment of the amounts due the several cOun-
ties and corporations-in the State, upon
this approximate basis. Upon receipt OF
such statement, the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts shall issue his warrant upon the
Treasurer Of the State. in favor OF the Su-
perintendent OF each county OF corpora
ton, for the amount which each county or
corporation is entitled to receive under
said statement, which warrant, when en-
dorsed by said county or corporation super
intendent to the treasurer of his county or
corporation, as hereinafter provided by the
second section Of this act, shall be paid by
the Treasurer of the State. OF shall be ac-
copied from such county or corporation
treasurer as cash i'll all settlements Tor
public revenue made by him with the Au-
dior of Public Accounts so far as paid by
the warrants hereinafter provided for.
2. The superintendent Of schools of each
county or corporation, shall, upon the re-
eeipt Of such warrant, endorse the same to
and deposit it with the treasurer OF his
county Or corporation, taking his receipt
therefor, who shall enter the same upon
his books as credit to said superinten
dent of schools. V
3. All warrants hereafter drawn by dis
trict school boards or trustees upon the
public schoolfubd of the State, as now
provided by law, shall, if approved by the
county or cOrp0l alton superintendent. be
taken up by him, and his own warrants is
sued therefore, which shall be paid by the
treasurer Of the county or corporation, or
be receivable by him in payment OF all tax
eS or demands due the Commonwealth
The county or corporation superintendent
may issue his warrants in sums, not less
than five dollars, in which case the war
rant shall be for the amount due, as will
best suit the convenience Of the payee, but
in no case shall he issue his warrants for
an aggregate amount greater than the
warrant received by him from the Audi
tor OF Public Accounts; nor shall the coun
Cy or corporation treasurer pay any War
rant upon the State fund unless issued by
the superintendent OF his county or cor
poration. nor an aggregate amount grea
ter than the said superintendent has cred
1t for. Amy superintendent who shall is
sue warrants to an. aggregate amount
greater than is provided by this section,
aud any treasurer who shall pay any war
rant upon the State fund aforesaid, in
violation of this act, shall be guilty of
misdemeanor and be fined not less than
$500 nor more than ST ,0G0.
4. At not less than one general meeting
prior to the first day of July, in each year.
the school trustees Of each county shall
compare the warrants issued by each dis
trict board with those issued by the coun-
ty Or corporation superintendent. and re-
port the result to the State Superintendent
Of Schools.