CHAP. 133.—An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia Institute.
| Approved February 16, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Rev. J. R. Harrison, Rev. R. B. Boatwright, Rev. J. F. Mai-
den, M. M. Morriss, Samuel D. Jones, Judge A. P. Cole, Cap-
tain R. C. Williams, B. D. Hawthorne, Alexander Whiteaker,
John H. Clark, Joseph M. Thomas, Noah C. Davenport, and
John W. Edmondson, trustees, and their successors, be and
they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by the
name and style of the Southwest Virginia Institute, for the pur-
pose of keeping and conducting a boarding and day school of
the above name, and of teaching and giving instruction to such
persons as may be committed to their care as pupils of said
school, in all the various studies and courses of instruction in
modern languages, English and French, and in ancient lan-
guages, and in music, and the fine arts, and all other matters
or things usually prescribed in schools and colleges of the
highest grade; with the right and privilege to make and pre-
scribe such rules and regulations as irom time to time may seem
fit and proper to them; and to change or alter the same, to en-
able them to conduct the daily and yearly exercises, @nd suc-
cessfully to govern, and generally to promote the objects and
plans of: said institute. :

2. The said institute shall have the power of perpetual suc-
cession, and a common seal, which it may alter or amend at
its pleasure; and may, in its corporate name, sue and be sued,
implead and be impleaded, as well as by the name of Southwest
Virginia Female Institute, and.may in its corporate name con-
tract and be contracted with, purchase, hold and grant estates,
real and personal, for its purposes; and make regulations for
the government of all persons, and things and property under
its authority, for the management of its estates, and the due
and orderly conducting of its affairs: provided, said institute
shall not at any time acquire and hold real and personal estate
exceeding in value one hundred thousand dollars.

3. The said institute may have such public or other celebra-
tions, at such times and places, and in such manner and form,
as it may deem fit and proper; and may confer and bestow
upon its pupils or graduates such diplomas or certificates, or
other evidences of graduation, distinction or proficiency, as
said pupils may acquire in their various studies or employ-
ments, according to the regulations of said institute and the
determination of its teachers, instructors, trustees, or other
officers; which said diplomas or certificates shall bear the seal
of said institute, and the signatures of its principal, instructors
and trustees.

4. The officers of said institute shall consist of a principal or
principals, and vice-principal, and such assistants in the school
or academic departments, and in the domestic department, as
may be deemed requisite, to be chosen in such manner and form
as said corporators may prescribe.
5. A majority of the above mentioned trustees shall consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the action of
the executive committee of trustees, when in accord with the
instruction of the trustees, shall be legal and binding.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.