SECT. VIII. EVERY teacher shall receive a salary of by the
year, which, with the expences of building and repairing the school
houses, shall be provided in such manner as other county expences are
by law directed to be provided and shall also have his diet, lodging,
and washing found him, to be levied in like manner, save only that
such levy shall be on the inhabitants of each hundred for the board
of their own teacher only.
SECT. IX. AND in order that grammer schools may be rendered
convenient to the youth in every part of the commonwealth, BE it
farther enacted, that on the first Monday in November, after the
first appointment of overseers for the hundred schools, if fair, and
if not, then on the next fair day, excluding Sunday, after the hour
of one in the afternoon, the said overseers appointed for the schools
in the counties of Princess Ann, Norfolk, Nansemond and
Isle-of-Wight, shall meet at Nansemond court house; those for the
counties of Southampton, Sussex, Surry and Prince George, shall meet
at Sussex court-house; those for the counties of Brunswick,
Mecklenburg and Lunenburg, shall meet at Lunenburg court-house; those
for the counties of Dinwiddie, Amelia and Chesterfield, shall meet at
Chesterfield court-house; those for the counties of Powhatan,
Cumberland, Goochland, Henrico and Hanover, shall meet at Henrico
court-house; those for the counties of Prince Edward, Charlotte and
Halifax, shall meet at Charlotte court-house; those for the counties
of Henry, Pittsylvania and Bedford, shall meet at Pittsylvania
court-house; those for the counties of Buckingham, Amherst, Albemarle
and Fluvanna, shall meet at Albemarle court-house; those for the
counties of Botetourt, Rockbridge, Montgomery, Washington and
Kentucky, shall meet at Botetourt court-house; those for the counties
of Augusta, Rockingham and Greenbrier, shall meet at Augusta
court-house; those for the counties of Accomack and Northampton,
shall meet at Accomack court-house; those for the counties of
Elizabeth City, Warwick, York, Gloucester, James City, Charles City
and New Kent, shall meet at James City court-house; those for the
counties of Middlesex, Essex, King and Queen, King William and
Caroline, shall meet at King and Queen court-house; those for the
counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond and Westmoreland,
shall meet at Richmond court-house; those for the counties of King
George, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Prince William and Fairfax, shall
meet at Spotsylvania court-house; those for the counties of Loudoun
and Fauquier, shall meet at Loudoun court-house; those for the
counties of Culpeper, Orange and Louisa, shall meet at Orange
court-house; those for the counties of Shenandoah and Frederick,
shall meet at Frederick court-house; those for the counties of
Hampshire and Berkeley, shall meet at Berkeley court house; and those
for the counties of Yohogania, Monongalia and Ohio, shall meet at
Monongalia court-house; and shall fix on such place in some one of
the counties in their district as shall be most proper for situating
a grammar school-house, endeavouring that the situation be as central
as may be to the inhabitants of the said counties, that it be
furnished with good water, convenient to plentiful supplies of
provision and fuel, and more than all things that it be healthy.
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