Chap. 94.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate
Saint Mary's Benedictine Institute, approved March 15, 1875, Richmond, Vir-
ginia.

Approved Mareh 1, 1902.

l. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled an act to incorporate Saint Marv’s Benedictine Institute, approved
March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Alphonse
Bliley, Clara Vogel, Philomena McGill, Edith Vogel, Walbury Brunner,
Benedict Ross, and Gertrude Head, their associates and successors, are
hereby created a hody politic and corporate by the name of Saint Mary’s
Benedictine Institute for the purpose of educating female children in the
city of Richmond, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and
a common seal, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded.

§ 2. The said corporation shall have power and authority to receive
bequests of money, land, and other things by gift, grant, bequest or
devise, and acquire by purchase or exchange ‘real and personal estate
anywhere in Virginia for the aforesaid purpose: providing, that it shall
at no time own above one hundred and fifty acres, and that the value of
its real estate shall not be above one hundred thousand dollars; and it
shall especially have power to receive from the trustees of Saint Mary's
German Female Institute, appointed by a deed dated February eigh-
teenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and recorded in the clerk’s office
of the chancery court of Richmond, a transfer of the property conveyed
in said deed, to be held by the corporation hereby created, upon the same
trusts set forth in the said deed, and in every respect for the same pur-
poses.

§ 3. Upon the execution of the said trustees, or their survivors
or successors, of a deed ‘conveying to the corporation hereby
created the aforesaid property, which convevance the said trustees are
by this act especially empowered to execute all the rights, duties, powers,
responsibilities, title, and interest of the said trustees in the property
conveyed in trust by the said deed of February-eighteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-nint, from Reverend Joseph Polk to the said trustees, shall
forthwith vest in the corporation hereby created, and be enjoyed, done,
performed, and assumed by it forever.

§ 4. The said corporation shall have power to adopt such laws for its
government and for the conduct of the female school under its charge as
may to it seem meet, and may confer degrees and diplomas and the usual
honors conferred bv literary institutions. And the said corporation shall
have the right to maintain at or near Bristow, in Prince William county,
an institution for the education of females, to be known as Saint Edith’s
Academy, and the said corporation shall have the power and authority
to establish and maintain other educational institutions for the education
of females clsewhere in the State of Virginia as said corporation shall
deem proper. And said other institutions shall have the power also to
confer the usual degrees and honors conferred by other institutions of
learning.

§ 5. W hereas, W. W. Kincheloe and wife conveyed to the said society,
by deed dated September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
three, ninety-two and one-half acres of land, said deed being of record in
the clerk’s office of Prince William county, Virginia; and,

Whereas, at the time of the said conveyance from Kincheloe and
wife to said society, the said society, by its charter, was only authorized
to hold not exceeding one acre of land in the city of Richmond: nov,
therefore, said deed “from said Kincheloo and wife to said society is
hereby ratified and confirmed, and is made as effectual, firm, and stable
in all respects as if at the date of said deed the said society was authorized
to hold one hundred and fifty acres of land at any place or places in Vir-
ginia.
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§6. This act shall be in force from its passage, and be subject to
mendment, modification, and repeal at the pleasure of the general assem-
ly.