Chap. 327.—An ACT to repeal and Re-enact an Act passed April third,
eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, Incorporating the Pearisburg Acad-
emy Association.

Approved March 31, 1873.

Whereas, it is represented to the general assembly, That the
county court of Giles county, through its attorney, conveyed
by deed bearing date the twenty-sixth day of October, eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, one moiety of a certain lot in the town
of Pearisburg to the Pearisburg Academy Association, created
by law passed April third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine,
for the sole purpose that a school-house should be erected
thereon, and a school maintained therein; and whereas, it ap-
pears that the school-house, once erected, has been destroyed,
and said lot abandoned and lying waste, and the members that
constituted said association have, nearly all of them, died or
removed; and it being further represented that the citizens of
said town and vicinity are desirous to have a school-house
erected on said lot and a school put into operation therein:
therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Harvey G.
Johnston, Henry W. Broderick, Granville H. Dills, Frederick
G. Thrasher, John W. Easley, Henry G. Dennis, Daniel W.
Mason, George W. Easley and James D. Johnston, and such
other persons as may be associated with them for the purposes
of said school and school-house, be and hereby are constituted
a corporation, under the name of the Pearisburg Academy As-
sociation, and are hereby authorized to succeed to and enjoy
all the rights and privileges of said former association.

2. Be it further enacted, That every person subscribing and
paying ten dollars, shall be a stockholder in said corporation, and
shall be entitled to a vote, in a meeting of the stockholders,
for every share of stock he may own.
3. The board of directors are authorized and empowered to
have a suitable building erected on said lot for the purposes of #
an academy, and to maintain a school therein, and to do all s
things lawful for those purposes.

4. Such building shall not be converted to any other pur- F
pose than for a school, except that the upper story may be fitted ¢
up for and used as a masonic hall, by Giles lodge number one
hundred and six. |

5. Said corporation shall, in all other respects, be subject to c
the provisions of the Code of Virginia, chapters fifty-six and ;
fifty-seven.

6. The act passed April third, eighteen hundred and thirty- 5
nine, incorporating the Pearisburg Academy Association, is °
hereby repealed.

7. This act shall be in force from its passage. c