Chap. 401.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the Virginia
Normal and Collegiate Institute, and to provide for the support of the same, ap-
proved May 20, 1887.

Approved March 29, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act to
repeal an act to incorporate the Normal and Collegiate Institute, and to
provide for the support of same, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, and in lieu thereof provide anew for the incorporation of
said Normal and Collegiate Institute, and for the support of same, ap-
proved May twentieth, “eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. The said school shall be known as the Virginia Normal and
Industrial Institute, and shall embrace a normal department and an in-
dustrial department, and also such other departments as may be deemed
expedient and proper. Said institution shall be subject to the government
and control of a board of visitors, whereof the organization, powers, and
duties shall be as follows:

§ 2. The Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute shall continue a
body corporate under the name and style of the “Board of Visitors of the
Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute,” and be under the government
and control of the board, composed of four qualified persons, and of the
superintendent of public instruction. ‘The present incumbents shall re-
main in office until their successors are appointed and qualified. On or
before the fifteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and two, and there-
after on the first day of February, in every succeeding fourth year, the
governor, with the consent of the senate, shall appoint four well-qualified
men as visitors of said institute, whose term of office shall commence on
the first day of April succeeding their appointment and continue four
years.

§ 3. The board of visitors shall be a body corporate under the name
and style of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Normal and Industrial
Institute, with the right as such to use a common seal. They may plead
and be impleaded in all courts of justice in all cases concerning the insti-
tute which may be subject to legal cognizance and jurisdiction, which
pleas shall not abate by the termination of their office, but shall stand re-
vived in the name of their successors; and they shall be capable in law
and in trust for the institute of receiving subscriptions and donations,
real and personal, as well from bodies corporate, or persons associated, as
from individuals.

§ 4. A majority of the members of said board of visitors shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall appoint a
rector of their own body to preside at their meetings, and a secretary to
record, attest, and preserve their proccedings, who may receive a nominal
salary for his services, to be fixed by the board. They shall appoint a
treasurer and prescribe his duties, and fix the amount of his bond at not
less than fifteen thousand dollars. The said bond shall be made payable
to the Commonwealth of Virginia, shall have good and sufficient sureties,
conditioned for the proper accounting and paying over all moneys and
other things committed to his custody, which bond, entered on the
of the board of visitors, shall be transmitted to the auditor of pu
counts, and remain on file in his office.

§5. The powers and duties of said board of visitors shall be
lows—namely :

(a) To appoint a president of said institute, and all professors
ers, and all necessary agents or employees, and to fix their sal:
compensations, and also those of the secretary and treasurer of sai

(b) To prescribe the duties of the president, professors, teache
all agents or employees of said institute.

(c) To prescribe the course of study in the several departments
institute, and to fix the length of the scholastic term, and the nui
terms to be occupied by the ¢ course of study in each department.

(d) To prescribe the terms upon which students other than St
dents shall be admitted, specifying expecially the charges for hut
board, and to establish rules and regulations for the discipline :
ernment of all students admitted to said institute.

(e) To examine into the conduct and management of the sch
fidelity and efficiency of the officers and emplovees, the methods
struction employed, the progress of the students, and to grant to
excel in any branch of learning, or complete a preseribed course o!
such honorary testimonials in the wav of certificates of profici
diplomas as shall be deemed expedient.

(f) To inspect annually, and as much oftener as is deemed ne
all buildings, lands, appurtenances, and other property of said in
to provide for the duc care and preservation of the same, and t
to be made out and kept on file an inventory of all such propert
real and personal, specifying therein the value and condition ther

(g) To disburse such funds as may belong to the institute.

(kh) To make an annual report, through the office of the s
tendent of public instruction, to the hoard of education, in confor
the requirements of the law providing for reports from State insti
approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and cighty-cight.

(1) To appoint an executive committee for the performance «
duties as the said board of visitors may prescribe.

(7) In general to direct and do all things not inconsistent with t
of this State, which to them shall seem best adapted to aecompl
legitimate objects of said institute. All of which several functio
shall be free to exercise in the form of by-laws, rules, resolutions,
instructions, or otherwise, as they may deem proper.

§ 6. Said board of visitors shall have power to remove, a majc
all the members thereof concurring, the president, professors, te
agents, or emplovees of said institute.

§ 7. Said board of visitors shall in all their official acts conform
laws of this State.

$8. There shall be admitted into the institute. free of cha:
tuition, use of laboratory or public buildings. and upon such te
to board and other expenditures as the board of visitors may pres
number of colored students equal to twice the number of members
ouse of delegates, to be apportioned in the same manner. Such students
hall be designated as State students, and shall not be less than fifteen
ears of age, and shall be elected by the superintendents of schools for
he respective counties and cities from the colored pupils of either sex
ttending the free schools, or in their discretion from others than those
ttending said free schools. Superior proficiency in study and good
ioral character shall be duly regarded in the selections.

$9. Due notice shall be given by the president of said institute to the
ounty and city superintendents of schools of all vacancies existing or
kely to oceur in said institute in the case of State students, whereupon
4id county or city superintendents of schools shall proceed to fill said
acaney, and officially notify the president of said institute of said ap-
ointment. If in due time after such notice no appointment be made, the
acancy indicated may be filled by the board of visitors from the State at
irge: provided, that any State student, as a condition precedent to ad-
lission into said institute, shall enter into a written contract with said
oard of visitors to engage in teaching school or other educational work
or not less than two years, but said student, by this section, shall not be
eprived of any compensation which he may be able to obtain for teaching
r other educational work. Should any such State student fail to comply
‘ith the contract herein specified, he may be relieved therefrom by the
avinent in cash of one-half of the tuition and other fees remitted to
im while he or she was a student of said institute.

§ 10. The general assembly shall make such appropriations annually
ut of the revenues of the State for the support and maintenance of said
stitute as it shall deem advisable.

$11. The board of visitors shall have power to designate the bank or
anks in which shall be kept on deposit all moneys accruing to said insti-
ite from the annuity herein provided for, and from all other sources,
nd to prescribe the manner in which said moneys shall be disbursed :
rovided, the said board shall not designate for the purpose aforesaid
nv bank or banks which are not at the time State depositories so desig-
ated by the governor.

$12. The auditor of public accounts shall, on the orders of the board
F visitors, issue his warrants for such amounts of said annuity as are
ecified in said orders: said warrants to be made payable to the cashier
F the bank designated by said board of visitors as a depository of the
inds of said institute: said funds to be placed by said cashier to the
edit of the treasurer of said institute.

§ 13. Any person mav deposit in the treasury of the State, or bequeath
onev, stocks, or bonds to be deposited, or grant, devise, or bequeath
roperty—real or personal—to be sold, and the proceeds so deposited,
hich shall he invested as the donor may indicate, or the board of visitors
ay see proper, for the benefit of the institute, and in such case the in-
rest or dividend accruing on such deposits shall be placed to the credit
‘the treasurer of the institute on the order of the board of visitors, to
» used for the purpose hereof, unless some particular appropriation shall
we been designated by the donor or testator, in which case such partic-
ar use or appropriation shall be respected.
§ 14. The board of visitors shall have at least one stated meeting at
the institute in each year. They may have other meetings at such times
as they may appoint, or on the call of the rector or the governor of the
State. Such actual expenses as the visitors may incur in the discharge
of their duties shall be paid out of the funds of the institute.

815. The president, professors, and teachers of the Virginia Normal
and Industrial Institute shall be required, during each and every year, to
conduct a summer normal school for the benefit of the colored teachers
of the public schools of this State, and those who expect to become teach-
ers in the public schools; said summer normal school shall begin on a
day to be designated by the board of visitors, not later than the first day
of July, and to continue for a term of four weeks. In said summer
school shall be taught such branches as relate to the academic and pro-
fessional improvement of teachers.

816. The annual salary allowed the president, professors, instructors,
and other employees in said normal and industrial institute shall be re-
garded as covering the time during which they are on duty in said sum-
mer normal school: provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to
prohibit the board of visitors from employing other competent and skilled
normal instructors to assist the regular faculty in conducting said sum-
mer normal school.

817. The president of the institute, with the approval of the board of
visitors, may issue circulars, or adopt such other means as may be deemed
expedient to convey to teachers due notice of the time when said summer
norma! school shall begin, and the course of instruction to be given. The
teachers attending said summer normal school shall receive such certifi-
cates or merit as the authorities of said institute may prescribe.

§ 18. While in attendance upon said summer normal school the teachers
may occupy the institute buildings, and be furnished such accommoda-
tions as to board in the like manner as are the regular students of the
institute. They shall be subject to such rules and regulations as to gov-
ernment and discipline as shall be approved by the board of visitors.
The charge for board and lodging to each teacher shall not exceed two
dollars per week. All regular employees of said institute shall perform
such service during the summer normal term as the authorities of the
institute may require.

§ 19. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-

ed.

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