Chap. 569.—An ACT to incorporate the Bowling Green Female Seminary, in the
town of Bowling Green, Virginia.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That R. O.
Peatross, J. W. C.. Davis, G. W. Grigsby, Reverend J. T. Mastin,
Reverend W. G. Starr, D. D., Reverend C. D. Crawley, Doctor Garrett
Anderson, Oliver Eastburn, J. F. Bellows, J. H. Whealton, T. F. Cocke.
S. W. Broaddus, John P. Branch, and, ex-officio, the presiding elder of
the district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which Bowling
Green is located, as trustees, and their associates ami successors, to be
appointed as hereinafter provided, be, and are hereby, incorporated and
made a body politic under the name of the Bowling Green Female Semi-
nary, at the town of Bowling Green, Caroline county, Virginia, under the
supervision of the Virginia “annual conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Chureh, South, and of the district conference of the said chureh in
which the said town is located, for the purpose of conducting a seminary
of the above name, and teaching and training the pupils in suitable
learning and useful av ocations In co-relation with, and preparatory for,
the Randolph- Macon Woman’s College, at Lynehburg, Virginia. The
sald corporation shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, the
right to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to receive, by gift, be-
quest, devise, purchase, or otherwise, property, real, personal, or mixed,
and, in its diseretion, hold, alter, control, manage, invest, assign, sell,
convey, or dispose. of the same for the benefit of the corporation : pro-
vided, that said corporation shall at no time own or hold property worth
more than fifty thousand dollars.
. The trustees of this corporation shall never exceed nineteen in num-
her, eighteen being elective and one ex-officio, and shall each one be a
member in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
und six of them shall be elected each year for a term of three years in
the following manner: Three shall be elected each year by the board of
trustees: provided, that no one elected shall act as trustee if the next
conference of the district in which Bowling Green is located refuse, by
action, to confirm him. ‘Three shall be elected annually upon nomina-
tion of a special committee by the conference of the district of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, South, in which Bowling Green is located, un-
less the board of education of the Virginia annual conference shall di-
rect that one of them shall be elected by the conference of an adjoining
district. The board of trustees named in this act of incorporation shall,
at its first aaa hereafter, determine by lot five of their number, who
shall serve three vears; five, who shall serve two years, and the remain-
ing three, who shall serve one year from Auguat first, nineteen hundred
and one. The board of trustecs may, at any ‘time thereafter, fix in their
by-laws a different date in the year for the expiration and the beginning
of the term of service. Trustees shall, in all cases, hold oflice until their
successors are elected and accept.

3. The board of trustees, or corporation, shall have power to elect its
own president and other officers and agents, and to elect the president,
teachers, and officers of the school, and remove any or all of them for
cause; to take bonds from them for the faithful performance of their
duties, and to get judgment for any special delinquency on motion in the
courts of Caroline county; tomake by-laws and re gulations for the govern-
ment and welfare of the cor poration and of the school, and its officers,
teachers, and pupils, not inconsistent with this charter and with the laws of
the land; toappoint an executive committee, which may embrace the presi-
dent of the school, and to confer upon it during recess all the powers of
the board; to provide suitable courses of study as its judgment dic ‘lates,
and to award certificates, distinctions, and diplomas for merit, as in
other similar institutions; to arrange for scholarships, and issue bonds
payable without interest in tuition fecs. Eight trustees, or a majority
of those in office, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi-
ness. The board of trustces shall not have power to go in debt, or to
issue bonds so as to encumber any part of the property which has been
acquired and paid for, or to encumber any part of any endowment which
may be received: provided, however, that any trustee who may have ad-

vanced money in an emergency is hereby given a lien upon the seminary
property for such amount, as is provided for church trustees by the dis-
“pine of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

. The president, and in his absence the next in authority in the semi-
nary, is hereby constituted a conservator of the peace, with all the powers
and liabilities thereof, during the session of said seminary, on or within
CHIEEy feet of the grounds of the same.

5. No tax shall be required to be paid upon this charter of said cor-
poration, nor upon the property of said corporation.

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