Chap. 159.—An ACT to incorporate the Jackson Female dnstitute at Ab-
ingdon.

Approved June 27, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Wm. Y. C.
White, Theophilus P. Capp, James W. Preston, S. A. Pres-
ton, David C. Dunn, Floyd B. Hurt, D. G. Thomas, John G.
Kreger, David C. Greenway, H. S. Preston, E. H. Barnett,
George R. Barr, James W. Humes, George W. Palmer, A. C.
Cummings, Isaac B. Dunn, Joseph R. Anderson, and their
successors, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic
and corporate under the name and style of The Trustees of
the Jackson Female Institute, and by that name have perpetual
succession and a common seal, and may sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, and the said
trustees of the Jackson Female Institute shall be capable in
law to receive, hold, and dispose of real and personal pro-
perty, in order to carry out the purposes of their incorpora-
tion: provided, the amount of said real and personal estate
shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.

2. The said Jackson Female Institute shall be under the
control and management of the said trustees and their suc-
cessors, who shall appoint a treasurer and all necessary offi-
cers and professors, and from time to time make such by-laws,
rules, and regulations for the government of the institution as
to them shall seem fit, not inconsistent with the laws of this
state or of the United States.

3. The board of trustees, two-thirds concurring, shall have
power to remove any trustee for good cause, and whenever
any trustee shall absent himself from three successive meet-
ings, without assigning a sufficient reason at the fourth, the
trustees of said institute shall have power, by entry on their
minutes, to declare his seat vacant.

4. Seven of the trustees shall constitute a board for the
transaction of ordinary business, and any vacancies in said
board of trustees, occasioned by death, resignation, or other-
wise, shall be filled by appointment, alternately, by the sur-
viving trustees and the trustees of the Sinking Spring Presby-
terian church in Abingdon—the surviving trustees filling the
first vacancy that occurs.

d. The treasurer shall receive all moneys accruing to the in-
stitute and property delivered to his care, and shall pay or de-
liver the same to the order of the board of trustees. Before
entering upon the discharge of his duties, he shall give bond,
with such security and in such penalty as the board shall direct,
made payable to the trustees for the time being and their suc-
cessors, and conditioned for the faithful pertormance of the
duties of his office in all such rules and regulations as the
board may adopt.

6. The said board of trustees shall have power, eitber by
themselves or their agents, to take and receive subscriptions
for said institute, and in case any person shall fail to pay his
or her subscription, to enforce the payment thereof by warrant
before a magistrate, or by motion in any court of record in
this commonwealth, according to the amount of said subscrip-
tion, giving ten days’ previous notice of said motion.

7. In order to promote the endowment of said institute, it
shall be lawfal for the trustees to issue and grant certificates
of scholarships, setting forth the amount of such scholarship,
which may be either perpetual or limited, and for such amounts
and upon such conditions as the trustees may determine, en-
titling the holders of such scholarships to such rights as to
placing pupils in the school, and upon such terms, as may be
set forth therein on their face, which said certificates of scholar-
ship may be transferred, bequeathed, or otherwise disposed of
as any other property.

8. The board of trustees, in connection with the president
and professors of the institute, shall have power to confer such
diplomas and literary titles as they may think best calculated
to promote the cause of female education.

9. This act shall be in force from its passage.