Chap. 164.—An ACT to provide for the establishment of “Virginia State school
for colored deaf, dumb and blind children.”

Approved March 12, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘That there shall
he established on a site, the selection of said site being hereinafter pro-
vided for, an institution entitled “Virginia State school for colored deaf
and blind children.”

The said institution shall be under the government of a board of
visitors consisting of five members, whose appointment is hereinafter
provided for.

2. In the said institution there shall be two departments, each separate
and distinct from the other. In one of these departments there shall be
received such deaf and dumb children of the colored race, whose parents
or guardians are residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as cannot be
educated in the ordinary public schools of the State. In the other depart-
ment there shall be received such blind children of the colored race, resi-
dents as above described, as cannot be educated in the public schools.

3. There shall be no charge for the education of colored children.
afflicted as above described, whose parents or guardians are residenta of
the State of Virginia.

4. The board of visitors shall be, and they are hereby declared to be. a
hody corporate under the style and title of “the board of visitors of Vir-
ginia State school for colored deaf and blind children.” They shall have the
tight as such to use a common seal, to plead and be impleaded, in all
courts of justice, and in all cases in which the interests of the school are
involved; and they shall be capable in Jaw and in trust for the institu-
tion, of receiving donations, real and personal, as well from bodies corpo-
rate, and persons associated, as from private individuals.

. The institution hereby established shall in all things and at all
rian be subject to the control of the gencral assembly of Virginia, and
it shall be the duty of the board of visitors to make an annual report tc
the general assembly and make such other reports as may be provided
hy law. Each fiseal year of said institution shall end on the thirtieth
day of September, to which time the accounts of the institution shall be
made; and the board of visitors shall annually, on the first day of Octo-
her, deliver to the second auditor their report to the general assembly.
showing the condition of the school, its receipts and disbursements for
the said fiscal year.

6. The board of visitors shall be appointed as follows: The first three
visitors for two vears from July first, nineteen hundred and six, the re-
maining two visitors for four years from July first, nineteen hundred and
six, ATL suecee ding appointments shall be as provided for by law. The
board of visitors shall appoint one of their members as their president.
and in ease of his absence, a president pro tempore. The board shall ap-
point a secretary, not a member of the board, who shall keep an accurate
record of the proceedings of the board. he board shall appoint an
executive committee, consisting of three members of the board, who shall
meet every sixty days; the secretary of the board acting in like capacity
for the executive committee. The board of visitors shall hold one annual
mecting and such intermediate meetings as may be necessary. A ma-
dats of the board of the executive committee shall constitute a quorum.

. The board of visitors shall meet in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
within thirty days after receiving their commission from the governor,
and organize. They shall then proceed to elect a superintendent of the
institution. The said superintendent shall be elected with due regard to
his knowledge of the methods and systems for educating the deaf and
dumb and the blind, and on account of his sobriety and general fitness
for the position. The superintendent thus elected shall give such in-
formation as the board of visitors may need, and he shall bo consulted
= and advised with in all things pertaining to the welfare of the
school.

The board of visitors shall be charged with the erection, repair and
preservation of the buildings of the institution, and the care of the
property.

The board of visitors shall clect such professors, officers or agents as
may be necessary or expedient for promoting the objects of the institu-
lion, paying due regard to the sobriety, knowledge and general fitness of
each and every person so selected. The board of visitors may remove for
cause the superintendent, professors, officers and agents at any time.
rausing to be entered upon the journal of the board the cause of sucly
removal or removals, together with a copy of the order of removal.

8. The board of visitors shall receive all offers of property as a hi
for the said “Virginia State school for colored deaf and blind children”
they shall by majority vote select such site as in their judgment is the
most available and will be to the best interest of the State of Virginia.
and of the said children which are to be received into the said institution.
The said board of visitors shall report to the governor of Virginia the
resolution establishing said institution at the site so selected by it.

9. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.