Chap. 122.—An ACT to incorporate the Hampton Normal and Agricultu-
ral Institution.

Approved June 4, 1870.

Whereas, it is represented to the general assembly, that
under and by virtue of an act of incorporation granted by the
circuit court of the county of Elizabeth City, on the twenty-
first of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, certain
property located in the county of Elizabeth City, in this state,
formerly known as “ Little Scotland,” containing, by estima-
tion, one hundred and sixty acres, has been and is now used
as an institution of learning, known as The Hampton Normal
and Agricultural Institute, and upon this property large and
valuable college buildings have been erected, and the same
have been provided with necessary and suitable furniture,
apparatus, and equipments as a seminary of learning:

1. Now be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That O. O. Howard, George Whipple, M. E. Stubby, James
A. Garfield, John F. Lewis, E. P. Sinith, Robert W. Hughes,
James F’. B. Marshall, Alexander Hyde, B. G. Northrop, Sam-
uel Holmes, Edgar Ketchum, William E. Whiting, H. C.
Percy, and 8. C. Armstrong, and such others as they may as-
sociate with them, and their successors, be and are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of The
Trustees of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute,
and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and
by the name aforesaid, they and their successors shall be capa-
ble in law, and shall have full power and authority to acquire,
hold, possess, purchase, receive, and retain to them and their
successors forever, any lands, tenements, rents, goods, chattles,
or interest of any kind whatsoever, which may be given or be-
queathed to them, or be by them Purchased for the use of an
institution of learning, to be called the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute: provided the same do not exceed eight
hundred thousand dollars in value; they and their successors
shall have power to transfer, convey, and dispose of the same
in any manner whatsoever they shall adjudge most useful to
the interests and legal purposes of the said institution; and by
their corporate name may sue and implead, and be sued and
impleaded, may answer and be answered, in all courts of law
aml equity.
2. That the purposes of the said Hampton Normal and Ag-
ricultural Institute shall be as follows: For the instruction of
youth in the various common school, academic, and collegiate
branches, the best methods of teaching the same, and the best
mode of practical industry in its application to agriculture and
the mechanic arts; and for the carrying out of these purposes,
the said trustees may establish any departments or schools in
the said institution.

3. That the trustees, or a majority of them, shall choose by
ballot, a president, secretary, treasurer, and such officers, teach-
ers, or agents as they shall deem necessary, and remove the
same at pleasure, two-thirds of a quorum concurring in said
removal. They shall also take bond from the treasurer, paya-
ble to the trustees of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute, in such penalty and with such security as they may
deem reasonable, and conditioned for the faithful discharge of
the duties of his office, said duties to be prescribed by the said
trustees, or a majority of them. The said trustees may make
contracts in behalf of said institution, and, in general, manage
the affairs of the institution.

4, That when there shall be a vacancy in the board of trus-
tees, occasioned by death, resignation, removal, or refusal to
act, the remaining truftees, or a majority of them, shall, on
being notified by the secretary or president, supply the va-
cancy at the next annual meeting. Tt shall be lawful for any
five of the trustees to call a meeting of the trustees whenever
they shall deem it expedient.

5. That the board of trustees shall never be less than nine
nor more than seventeen, a majority of whom shall constitute
@ quorum.

6. That the trustees may adopt such rules, regulations, and
by-laws, not contrary to the laws of this state or of the United
States, as they may deem necessary for the good government
of the institution.

7. That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees,
whenever requested by the governor of this state or superin-
tendent of education, to make a report of the general condi-
tion of the institution to the board of education to be by them
communicated to the general assembly.

8. That all the rights, privileges, and properties acquired by
the said Hampton Normal and Agricultural Tnstitate, under the
charter of incorporation granted by the circuit court of the
county of Elizabeth City, on the twenty-first day of Septem-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be and the same are
hereby ratified and confirmed.

9. That from and after the passage of this act, the charter of
the said Hampton Normal and Agricul€ural Institute, hereto-
fore granted by the circuit court of the county of Elizabeth
City, save so far as ratified by the preceding section, isehereby
revoked and annulled.

10. That any property, held by the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute for its legitimate purposes, shall be ex-
empt from public taxes so long as apy property, held by other
institutions of learning in Virginia, for their legitimate pur-
poses, is exempt; and whenever a tax shall be laid upon the
same, if laid at all, the tax shall not be higher on said inatitu-
tion, in proportion to the value of its property, than on other
institutions of learning in this state. ]

11. This act shall be in force from the passage thereof.