Chap. 273.—An ACT concerning the charter and transactions of the General
Alumni Association of the University of Virginia, and accepting the pro-
visions of a certain deed of trust made by said association for the use
and benefit of the University of Virginia.

Approved March 16, 1910.

Whereas, the Society of Alumni of the University of Virginia was in-
corporated by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved Feb-
ruary sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, having for its object
the establishment of an endowment fund for the use and benefit of the
said university (a public institution owned and controlled by the State)
and the promotion of the general prosperity and welfare of the said in-
stitution; and

Whereas, by an act of the same general assembly, approved March
seventh, nineteen hundred and three, the General Alumni Association of
the University of Virginia was incorporated as the successor of the said
society alumni, which had no capital stock outstanding; and the objects
and purposes of the said General Alumni Association were the same as
those of said Society of Alumni, though the form of its organization was
changed ; and

Whereas, the said General Alumni Association was duly organized
as a public institution under the control of the State in pursuance of the
said act of the general assembly incorporating the same, the management
of the said association when not in session being vested in its executive
committee, and by-laws having been duly adopted regulating the organi-
zation of and the conduct of business by the said association ; and

Whereas, the said Alumni Association, by proceedings and pursuant tc
section four of chapter four of an act of the general assembly concerning
corporations, in force May twenty-first, ninetecn hundred and three, and
by certificate filed with the State corporation commission December
fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, obtained an amendment to its
charter under and by virtue of which it executed a deed to Joseph Bryan,
Thomas Nelson Page, and others, trustees, which deed bears date on the
fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and eight, and is of record
in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Albemarle county, Virginia,
and under which the funds and property of the association then or there-
after acquired were placed in the hands of the said trustees for invest-
ment for the use and benefit of the said University of Virginia upon the
terms and conditions in the said deed of trust set forth and specified,
and in pursuance of the provisions of said deed certain funds have now
passed into the hands of the said trustees; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
charter of the General Alumni Association as a public institution and the
aforesaid amendment thereto, together with the organization and by-laws
thereof, and its transactions heretofore had, be, and the same are, ap-
proved in all respects; and that the said association shall be and con-
tinue a corporation with the franchises, powers and rights specified in its
charter as amended, which shall include the right to define its qualifica-
tions for membership and admit members, define and determine the
status of local alumni associations as constituent parts of the said Gen-
eral Alumni Association, and fix what representation and voting power
they, or each of them, may be entitled to in the meetings and proceedings
of the General Alumni Association and appoint its executive committees
who shall manage its affairs subject to such regulations as may be pre-
scribed by the association.

2. That the aforesaid deed of February fifteenth, nineteen hundred
and eight, to Joseph Bryan, Thomas Nelson Page, and others, be, and the
same is, declared valid, and the said deed, together with the terms, pro-
visions and conditions thereof, is hereby accepted for and on behalf of
the University of Virginia and the rector and visitors thereof; and the
trustees thereunder shall be appointed and be subject to removal in all
respects as therein specified.