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HOUSE BILL % - ACTS OF 1950
(THE BATTLE FUND)
AN ACT to provid* for Stoto aid to eoantiti mad cities ia the
construction of public school buildings; to appropriate funds
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pondituro of tko funds appropriated. ; Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1.. f 1. In order to assist the counties and cities in the construction of needed public school buildings and to meet the emergency existing because of the inadequacy of public school facilities there is hereby appropriated from the general funds of the State treasury the sum of forty-five million dollars. Of this amount the sum of thirty million dollars shall be available for immediate allocation and expenditure as provided in this Act and the sum of fifteen million dollars shall be allocated and made available for expenditure in accordance with the terms of this Act during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1951, and ending June 80, 1952. - - , v
f 2. Of the amounts hereby appropriated ninety per cent shall be allocated among the counties and cities of the Commonwealth on the basis of the actual enrollment of school children of school age, not including those attending kindergarten, existing in the public school system of the several counties and cKies on December 1, 1949, in the case of the first thirty million dollars hereby appropriated and on December 1, 1350, as to the fifteen million dollars appropriated for the
year beginning July 1, 1951, the share of ^|tch county and city to be In the same ratio which the actual school enrollment therein
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