Chap. 238.—An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Academy, at Pulaski, Virginia.
Approved” March 15, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there be,
and is hereby, established at Pulaski city, Virginia, a high school for
colored youths, both male and female, with academic powers, to give
biblical, normal, industrial, technical (including domestic science), and
academic instruction and training in the various branches of science, art,
and literature, which shall be known by the name of Southwest Academy ;
and C. H. Johnson, T. J. Chick, M. F. Jones, S. M. Henry, Charles Hen-
derson, R. B. Goode, G. W. Loman, J. H. Hardy, and W. H. Mayo, and
six other persons whom the Baptist Ministers’ and Deacons’ Union of
Southwest Virginia may associate with them, be, and they are hereby,
constituted trustees of said academy, who, with their successors in office,
shall be a body corporate under the name and style of Southwest Acad-
emy, and as such shall have perpetual succession, a common seal, the right
to sue and be sued, and shall have and exercise all the rights, powers, and
privileges pertaining to such corporations under the laws of this Com-
monwealth; may acquire by purchase, gift, grant, bequest, devise, re-
ceive, and retain property, real, personal, or mixed, not to exceed one
hundred thousand dollars, and, in their discretion, hold, control, invest,
assign, sell, encumber, or otherwise dispose of the property, real, personal,
and mixed, as to them may seem fit, and all the property, and the rents,
issues, profits, and incomes thereof as an eleemosynary institution shall
be wholly exempt from all taxation while held by or for the benefit of
said corporation for educational purposes.

2. The officers of said corporation shall be a president, a vice-president,
and secretary and treasurer, which officers the trustees shall have power
to appoint or remove, as well as to fix their terms of office and to pre-
scribe their duties, and establish by-laws and regulations for the welfare
and government, development, and management and maintenance of said
corporation; to organize the school, appoint the faculty, servants, and
agents, and fix and regulate their fees and salaries, and establish the cur-
riculum of the institution, with such departments, schools, and courses of
study as the trustecs shall deem proper and necessary, and to confer, for
proficiency, such certificates, diplomas, literary and honorary degrees as
are wont to be conferred by similar academies, seminaries, colleges, and
universities in the United States, and power to erect suitable buildings
for the use and occupancy of said academy.

3. The treasurer shall receive all funds for the institution and apply
them as the trustees may direct, and he shall be required to give such
security or bond for the safe keeping of the same, and for the faithful
discharge of the duties of his office, as the trustees shall demand, and he
shall pay no orders on the treasury unless drawn by the secretary and
signed by the president of the board of trustees.

4. Any seven of the trustees, including the president and secretary,
shall form a quorum for the transaction of routine business, but a smaller
number may adjourn, from time to time, until a quorum is obtained
There shall be an annual and semi-annual meeting of the trustees, th
date of which meetings shall be fixed by their by-laws, and other meeting
may be held on the call of the president of the trustees, or by any thre
trustees, notice thereof being given to the trustees through mail.

5. Further, the trustees shall have the power, from their number, t
form an executive committee of five, to meet quarterly, to transact or«:
nary business pertaining to the erection of buildings, and so forth.

6. All vacancies occurring in the said trustees by refusing to act, resiz
nation, death, or otherwise shall be filled by their survivors in office, mak
ing such selections from a list of at least two persons for each vacancy
which list it shall be the privilege of the Baptist Ministers’ and Deacons
Union of Southwest Virginia to furnish. Should the said union nullif
its organization or fail to att, after being duly notified by said trustee
of such vacancy, the said trustees shall fill such vacancy without such list
provided further, that no action of said trustees in filling such vacancy
without such list, shall be valid, unless the records of said trustees shov
that such notice was given, and that said union had failed or refused t
furnish such list; and should the said trustees fail or refuse to compl:
with this section of this act, a compliance therewith may be compelle:
by writ of mandamus sued out from court of the Commonwealth havin:
jurisdiction of such writ upon the application of any person or person.
holding membership in any colored missionary Baptist church withi
the territory of said union or Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Association.

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