Chap. 494.—An ACT to incorporate the Park Seminary, Richmond,
Virginia.

Approved March 17, 18384.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
James K. Hazen, D. D., A. G. Kimbrough, Morgan Adams,
John C. Pettus, and M. A. Turner, and their successors, be
and are hereby constituted a body politie and corporate un-
der the name and style of the Trustees of Park Seminary, of
Richmond, Virginia; and by that name shall have perpetual
succession and a common scal, may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, and shall be capable in law to receive, hold and
dispose of real and personal property to any amount not ex-
ceeding forty thousand dollars, to carry on the purposes of
their incorporation.

2. The board of trustees shall consist of five members, and
shall have power to appoint a faculty for said seminary, con-
sisting of a president and professors, and fix their salaries,
which faculty may, with the advice and consent of the trus-
tees, establish and regulate the course and mode of educa-
tion and instruction to be pursued in said seminary, and to
adopt and enforce such rules and regulations, not inconsistent
with the laws of this state or of the United States, or of the
seminary, as may be deemed expedient for the good govern-
ment of the institution. The trustees shall have power also
to elect annually a president of their body, and a secretary
and treasurer, and such other officers as they may deem pro-

er.
P 3. Three of the trustees in person, or represented by
proxy, shall constitute a board for the transaction of busi-
ness, and any vacancy in the board of trustees, occasioned by
death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled or supplied by
appointment of the board.

4. The duties of the president and secretary and treasurer,
the last. two constituting one office, shall be such as belong
to their respective offices.

5. The president of the seminary, or in case of his death,
the other members of the faculty or a majority of them, shall
have power to call a mecting of the trustees when he or they
may deem it expedient.

6. The board of trustees, or the president thereof, in con-
nection with the principal of the seminary and the members
of the faculty, shall have power to confer such diplomas, cer-
tificates of scholarship and literary titles as they may think
best suited to promote the cause of female cducation.

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‘. This act shall be in force trom its passage.