Chap. 183.—An ACT to re-enact and amend an act to incorporate Martha
Washington College.

Passed February 9, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That George
V. Litchfield, Ephraim E. Wiley, Milton Y. Hiskell, Thomas
P. Hoofnaggle, Beverly R. Johnston, William P. Bishop,
Charles B. Cole, William King Heiskell, Thpomas McConnell,
Edmond Longley, Joseph Haskew, John A. Campbell and
James Fields, and their successors, be and they are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name
and style of the The Trustees of Martha Washington Col-
lege; and by that name shall have perpetual succession and
a common seal, and may sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, in any court of law or equity; 4nd shall be capable,
in law, to receive, hold and dispose of real and personal pro-
perty, to carry out the purposes of their incorporation.

2. The said trustees shall have power to appoint a faculty
for said college, consisting of a president and teachers, who
may, with the advice and consent of the trustees, establish
and regulate the course and mode of education and _ instruc-
tion to be pursued in said college; and to adopt and enforce
such rules and. regulations, not inconsistent: with the laws of
this state, of the United States, or of the college, as may be
deemed expedient for the good government of the institu-
tion. The said trustees shall also have power to appoint a
treasurer, secretary, and such other officers as they may deem
proper.

3. A majority of the trustees shall constitute a board for

the transaction of business; any vacancy or vacancies in the
board of trustees, occasioned either by death, resignation or
other disability, shall be supplied by appointment of the
board of trustees, and the joint board made in the sixth sec-
tion of this act, a majority of both being present at such
appointment. :
_ 4. The treasurer shall receive all moneys accruing to the
college and property delivered to his care, and shall pay or
deliver the same to the order of the board. Before entering
upon his duties he shall give bond in such penalty and with
such security as the board may direct and approve; made
payable to the trustees of the said coilege, conditioned for
the faithful performance of his duties, and of accounting for
and paying over all moneys and property which shall come
to his hands; and it shall be lawful tor the trustees to obtain
a judgment or judgments for the amount thereof, or for any
special deliquency incurred by said treasurer, on motion, in
the circuit court of Washington county, against the treasurer
and his securities, his or their executors or administrators.
upon giving thirty days previous notice of such motion.

5. The said trustees shall have power, by themselves o1
their agents, to take and receive subscriptions for the said
college, and to enforce payment thereof, either by warrant
before a justice, or motion in any court of record in this
state, having jurisdiction, according to the amount claimed,
upon giving: ten days’ notice of such motion. |

6. The Holston annual conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, South, shall have power to appoint, annually,
a board of visitors equal in number to the board of trustees;
which, together with the board of trustees, shail constitute
a joint board, which may create new professorships and ap-
point professors to them; fill any vacancy which may occur
in the presidency or any professorship of said college; to
remove or suspend the president and professors, and to fix
their salaries. . _

7. The board of trustees shall appoint a president of their
body, who shall preside in their meetings and in the meet-
ings of the joint board, or, in case of his absence, a president
pro tempore shall be chosen from the trustees present, who
shall preside at the meeting. Seven of the trustees and one
of the board of visitors shall constitute a quorum of the
joint board; and should there be at,a meeting of either
board less than a quorum, those present shall have power to
adjourn, from time to time, until-a quorum can be had.

8. The president of the college, or in case of his death,
resignation, removal, suspension or refusal to act, the other
members of the faculty, or a majority of them, shall have
power to call a meeting of the trustees or of the joint board,
when he or they deem it expedient.

9. There shall be. annual meetings of the joint board at
such time and place as they, from time to time, shall appoint.

10. The board of trustees shall, when thereto required by
law, make a report of the condition of the college to the
president and directors of the Literary fund, or to the gene-
ral assembly. They shall have power, for good cause, to
remove any member of their own body; and if any member
shall fail to attend three successive meetings of the board of
trustees, after being duly notified of such meetings, the
board may declare his seat vacant, and proceed to fill the
vacancy by appointment, in the way prescribed by the third
section of this act.

11. The board of trustees, in connection with the presi-
dent and professors of the college, shall have power to con-
fer such diplomas, certificates of scholarship and literary
titles as they may think best calculated to promote the course
of female education. .

12. The act passed February the twenty-second, eighteen
hundred and sixty, entitled an act to re-enact and amend an
act to incorporate the Martha Washington college, is hereby
repealed. . : !

13. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.