Virginia General Assembly’s Act Appropriating Part of the Literary Fund Revenue for the Creation of a Board of Commissioners for Education and for the Establishment of a University, 21 Feb. 1818
1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly,School commissioners to be appointed by the courts of the counties, cities, &c annually. That for the purpose of duly applying a part of the income of the literary fund to the primary object of its institution, it shall be the duty of the courts of the...