Chap. 92.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to establish

- a normal school at William and Mary college in connection with its col-
legiate course, approved March 5, 1888, and to transfer the ownership of
the real estate and personal property of the said college to the State.

Approved March 7, 1906.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, ‘That an act en-
titled “an act to establish a normal school at William and Mary College,
in connection with its collegiate course,” approved March fifth, one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-eight, be amended and re-enacted to read
as follows: .

Whereas it is represented that William and-Mary College is desirous
of establishing and maintaining in connection with its collegiate course a
system of normal instruction and training, so as to prepare white male
teachers for the public free schools of the Commonwealth, and is unable
to do so because of the inadequacy of its resources, and is desirous of
transferring to the ownership and control of the State, for educational
purposes, all its real estate and personal property; therefore to aid the
college in the purposes aforesaid, but subject to such conditions and re-
strictions as are herewith mentioned,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:
That the said college shall establish in connection with the collegiate
course, which shall be maintained, a system of normal instruction and
training for the purpose of educating and training white male teacher:
for the public free schools of the State.

2. That the board of visitors shall consist of ten members, to be ap:
pointed by the governor from the State at large, and by and with the
consent and advice of the senate, to hold office for a term of four years
provided, that at the first appointment five of the members shall be ap:
pointed for the term of two years, and five for the term of four years
and the said board shall control and expend the funds of the colleg
and any appropriation hereafter provided, and shall make all needfu
tules and regulations concerning the said college, appoint the presiden
and all professors, teachers and agents, and fix their salaries, and gen
erally direct the affairs of the college.

3. The superintendent of public instruction shall also be a member o
the board of visitors ex-officio; and any vacancy in said board that shal
be caused by death, resignation or otherwise, shall he filled by the gov
ernor, by and with the consent of the senate.

4, e said board shall be, and is hereby, constituted a corporatior
under the style of “the College of William and Mary in Virginia,” anc
shall be vested with all the rights and powers conferred by the pro
visions of this act and by the ancient royal charter of the college, in s
far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act anc
the general laws of the State, and shall also have the right to confer de
grees; and it is hereby enacted that all the real estate and personal prop
erty of the college, now existing and standing in the name of the corpo
tate body designated “the president and masters or professors of th
College of William and Mary in Virginia,” shall be transferred to an
known and taken as standing in the name and to be under the control o
the board of visitors constituted under this act, the corporate body desig
nated “the College of William and Mary in Virginia,” and be and be
come the property of the State of Virginia.

5. The board of visitors shall prescribe rules for the examination an
admission of the pupils applying for normal instruction, and shall requir
each pupil to give satisfactory assurance of his intention and willingnes
to teach in the public schools of the State for at least two years aftc
leaving said institution, and each of said pupils shall have, free of charg
for tuition, the privileges of the collegiate course.

6. Each county and city in the State shall be entitled to one pupil, wh
shall be nominated by the division superintendent of schools, and if an
vacancy occurs it shall be filled from the State at large by the board c
visitors, and each county and city in the State shall also be entitled t
one additional pupil for each additional representative in the house
delegates above one, to be appointed in a similar manner. ‘The said pupil
so appointed shall be exempt from tuition fees, and the charge for their
board, washing, lights, and fuel, shall not exceed the sum of twelve
dollars per month.

%. This act shall not become effective until and unless the board of
visitors of the college and the president and masters or professors of the
College of William and Mary in Virginia shall, within thirty days after
the approval of the same by the governor, pass a resolution accepting its
provisions and file in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth a
copy of said resolutions, certified by their respective secretaries; and said
last named corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to convey by
proper deed to said “College of William and Mary in Virginia” all real
estate or interest therein owned by it, and to transfer its personal prop-
erty.

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