Chap. 259.—An ACT to amend and re-enact. chapter 73, Code of 1887, relating to
general provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of the
Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act requiring educational institutions re-
@iving State appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education,”
approved January 12, 1888, and an act entitled “an act to provide for the ex-
penses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning,’ approved March 4, JS2.

Approved May 16, 1903.

1 Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
<ventv-three, Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, relating to
we uae ral provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of

» Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as
enle «1 and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act requiring educational
institutions receiving State appropriations to make annual report to the
beard of education,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and
eihtv-erght, and an act entitled “an act to provide for the expenses of
tee boards of visitors of the institutions of learning.” approved March
fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so
ax to read as follows:

$1657. That it shall be the duty of the president or chairman of the
ward of visitors or trustees of every State institution which is eduea-
tional in its character to cause to be made out by the superintendent,
president, principal, or other proper officer of such institution, and for-
warded to the office of the superintendent of public instruction on or be-
fore the first dav of October of each year a report for the vear ending
the thirtieth of June preceding. Said report shall set forth the cendi-
tion and progress of said institutions; the number of professors, assistant
teachers, and other officers, and the compensation of each; the whole
number of students in attendance; the courses of instruction, academic,
professional, or technical; the means and methods of instruetion; the
number of students in the different classes; the terms of tuition; the
number of students admitted free of charge for tuition; the kind and
amount of all funds and endowments vielding an income; the annual
income from all sources, and the items thereof; the amount of expendi-
tures, and the items thereof; and such other information as may be
decmed necessary to a full exlubit of the affairs and conditions of said
institutions. Said reports shall be embodied in the annual report of the
superintendent of public instruction to the hoard of education, to be by
the president of said board laid before the general assembly of Virginia.
All acts and parts of acts requiring reports of said institutions to be made
otherwise than as specified in this act are hereby repealed,

$1637. That the boards of visitors of the University of Virginia,
Virginia Military Institute, Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
leee, State Female Normal School, Virginia Normal and Collegtate In-
stitute. and William and Mary College Normal Male School shall re-
ceive their actual expenses (itemized) meurred in the discharge of their
duties in attending the meetings of said boards.

8 1658. Penalty. if report not made.—If no such report is made from
anv college or academy which receives any portion of the revenue of the

literary fund, or to which any loan has been made out of the said fund,
the second auditor shall withhold (until the report is made) the pay-
ment of such portion of the literary fund, or proceed to enforce pay-
ment of the said loan.
$1639. Payment of interest on bonds of State held by colleges, and

so forth.—The second auditor is authorized and directed to draw upon the
public treasury in favor of the proper authorities of any incorporated
college, institution, or seminary of learning, or manual labor school, in
this State, for all interest which has accrued, or may hereafter accrue,
and as the same may fall due, upon all obligations of the Commonwealth,
or of the James River and Kanawha Company, guaranteed by the Com-
monwealth, held by or for such college, institution, or seminary of learn-
ing, or manual labor school, or to which they were entitled, on the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, so long as they may
continue to hold the same: provided, that no interest shall be paid upon
any bonds, the payment of which is forbidden by the Constitution.

$1640. Exchange of coupon for registered bonds.—The proper au-
thorities of any incorporated college, institution, or seminary of learning,
or of any manual labor school, in this State, may exchange any consol
coupon bonds issued under the act of the general assembly, approved
March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, held by or on be-
half of such college, institution, seminary, or school, for funded regis-
tered consol bonds of the same class under said act. Any college, insti-
tution, seminary, or school, making such exchange shall have the same
rights and privileges as to funded registered consol bonds so taken as
the ‘v have under the preceding section.

$1641. Cancellation of coupon bonds , with
the coupons attached, so surrendered in 1 exch lange . shall be cance Ned by
the treasurer of the State, in the presence of the commissioners of the
sinking fund, at the time such exchange is made, and be carefully pre-
served in his office. The second auditor and the treasurer shall preserve
lists of the consol coupon bonds and coupons so surrendered.

$1612. Scholarships.—The board of visitors of the University of Vir-
ainia, the trustees of Washington and Lee University, the board of visi-
tors of the Virginia Military Institute, and the corporate authorities of
all colleges in the State, may establish scholarships in their respective in-
stitutions, under such regulations as they mav prescribe.

£1643. Investment of funds therefor.—Whenever any person shall de-
posit in the treasury of the State, or bequeath money to be so deposited,
or devise or hequeath property to he sold and the proceeds to be s0 de
posited, for the benefit of anv such institution, to such an amount that
the interest thereof will be sufficient to educate and maintain thereat one
or more cadets or students, the said fund shall be invested in Stale bends,
in the name and for the benefit of said institution.

Ss 1644. Donations irrevocable; right of nomination by donor.—Such
donation shall be irrevocable, but the donor, or his heirs, or their euar-
dian, if they be under twenty-one vears of age, shall have the right to
nominate and place in such institution one or more cadets or students,
according to the regulations aforesaid.

21645. Provision, if donor fail to nominate.—If such donor, or his
heirs, or such guardian, shall fail for one year to nominate as aforesaid,
tze said board of visitors, trustees, or corporate authorities may appro-
‘iate the income of the said fund to the education and maintenance of
incigent cadets or students, to be selected by them from the State at
ba Tare,

: 1646. Scholarships by alumni.—The society of alumni of any in-
stitution aforesaid may provide for and maintain a scholarship therein,
“vy annual contributions, under such regulations as may be preseribed as
af Tesal d.

S 10-47. Who prohibited from making contracts with State institutions,
anti so forth.—No person who is a member of any board of visiters of any
Site institution, or an emplovee or agent thereof, or a trustee of any pub-
i trust or fund, or a salaried officer of anv such State institution, or of
any such public trust or fund, shall contract, or be interested in any con-
tract, with suck institution, or with the governing authority of such pub-

- trust or fund in any manner or form, for furnishing supplies , or for

worfurming any work for said institution, or for said governing authority
of said trust or fund. Any person violating the provisions of this section
“ail be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

¥ 1648. Register of State property.—The chicf officer of every State
naritirtion shall keep a book in which he shall cause to be registered all
the property of the State at such institution, with a correct des cription
thereof, for the information of the board of directors or visitors, and
others interested. Any officer failing to comply with this section shall
“orfeit. fifty dollars.

£1649. Miller Manual Labor School continued.—The Miller Manual
Lat:ior School of Albemarle shall be continued, and the members of the
board of education, and their successors In office, and the second auditor,
and his successors In office, shall be. and remain, a corporation by the
rome of “the Miller Manual Labor School of Albemarle.”

$1650. Certain statutes affecting it continued in force—-The sccond,
third, and fifth clauses of section one, and the second section of the act
entitled “an act to give effect to a compromise of the litigation in respect
te the construction ‘and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and
to establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth
clause of said will,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-four; the act approved February nineteenth, eignteen liun-
dred and eighty- four, amending and re-enacting the fourth clause af the
cond section of the act approved April second, eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven, relating to the Miller Manual Labor School of Albemarle;
and the act to authorize the board of the said Miller Manual Labor School
t» convert coupon bonds into registered bonds, approved August twenty-
third, eighteen hundred and cidhty- four, shall severally eontinue in
force. :

$1651. Medical College of Virginia continued.—The Medical College
of Vv irginia shall be continued, and the visitors thereof, and their succes-
som, shall be, and remain, a corporation under the name and stvle of
“The Medical College of Virginia”; and all acts passed in respect thereto,

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which are in force on the dav before this Code takes effeet, shall continue
In force, subject to modification, alteration, or repeal, at the pleasure of
the general assembly.