The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-17
must KEEP PLANS
FOR ALL COUNTIES
State Board of Education Will
Supply Towns Where Cost Is
$1,000 Or Less.
NO BEARING ON INQUIRY
Superintendent Eggleston Ex-
plains What Department
Has Already Done.

! Although the plan. In q modified
form, has been In vogue for severa
years, n resolution was adopted yes
terday at meeting OF the state Boarc
OF Education which will require tn,
/ Superintendent of Public Instruction
% keep on hand set of plans ant
specifications to be used in all counties
and towns for schools which Will cos
$4,000 or less.
On motion OF Attorney General VIII.
iiams. the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That it shall be the duty
of the Superintendent of Public In
struct!on to procure and keep on hand
in his office uniform set OF plans and
specifications 10 be used in all of the
counties and towns of the Common
wealth in making contracts for the
building of schools in this state which
arc TO cost $4,000 or less lie shall
furnish the same TO the several coun
ties and towns of the. State on appl-
cation of the division superintendent
or trustees, and no contract shall be
made by any county or district school
board for the erection Of any school
building on any other plan or specih-
cation than those SO furnished by the
Superintendent of Public instruction.
as aforesaid, and no county or district
school board shall pay any architect
anything for the making or use OF any
plans or specifications Tor any of the
said buildings"
Not to Stnli or Inquiry.
In voting for the resolution Super
lntendent t:gGlrstop said that the De-
partment of Public Instruction is now.
and has for three or four years, been
furnishing plans and specitica lions for
one, two, three, four and recently six
room buildings TO local school officers.
free of cost. upon request The total
number of plans supplied, he said. was
sixteen. Ninc-tcnths OF such buildings
erected. Superintendent Eggleston
stated had been by those plans There
fore he had no objection to the pas
sage OF the resolution, unless Il might
he construed at this time as being
passed TO anticipate or obviatc the uc-
ton of the Legislature in directing an
inquiry concerning school plans and
archit6c cts fees.
Or. T.. A. Alderman. president Of the
University OF Virginia, sat with the
board, by request. He discussed with
the members the mater of correspond
ence schools, and announced that he
was anxious that the Univt rsity OF
virginia go into this field. The board
desired TO know whether 1t could unite
IN enabling young mei OF limited
means 10 enlist to procure this form ot
education The method was adopted
some some time ago by the University of
wisconsin, and has been carried on
with unusual success
The board elected NJ j. Hoover,
superintendent of schools of James
Cty county and williamsburg
II YVES decided that the charges OF
misconduct. neglect of duty and en-
saging In other business, which had
been preferred against Superintendent
w. B. Valentine, by DR.. J. B. Ialligan,
or Brunswick county. were not sus-
tanned, and were therefore dismissed.
A resolution was adopted, which re-
quested the General Assembly TO ap-
proPriate $4,000 instead of $4,000 a
year for summer school work, pro-
Vided that any teacher engaged in
elementary schools receiving less than
$50 a month for a six months term
snail not be required to pay tuition
fees In the summer schools.