Chap. 21.—An ACT to incorporate the Proteatant Episcopal Education
Society in Virginia. _

Approved January 8, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Vigginia, “That
John Johns, Francis M. Whittle, George A. Smith, Joseph
Packard, Cornelius Walker, Charles W. Andrews, Joshua
Peterkin, Charles Minnégerode, George H. Norton, Daniel
F. Sprigg, Randolph H. McKim, Churchill J. Gibson, J. C.
Hauckel, William H. Meade, Arthur Herbert, Charles F.
Taylor, Richard H. Parker, Richard H. Cunningham, Taze-
well Taylor, Matthew Harrison, Robert T. Craighill, Hugh
W. Sheffey, N. H. Massie, and Cassius F. Lee, be and they
are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the
name and style of The Trustees of the Protestant Mpisco-
pal Education Society in Virginia, and by that name shall

ave perpetual succession and a common seal; may sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded; with power to hold, receive
and purchase, to them and their successors forever, lands
and tenements, money and other chattels, and dispose of and
manage the same as shall seem best to the said trustees: pro-
vided the value of the property or money so held shall not
at any one time exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars.

2. The object of this society shall be the education, or
aiding in the education, of such young men as in the judg-
ment of said trustees or their successors, or of any executive
committee duly appointed by them, shall seem expedient.

3. That the suid trustees, or their successors, shall have
power to appoint such officers as they may deem necessary
or the proper management or direction of said society; also
to select from their number an executive committee, who,
during the recesses of said trustees, shall have all the power
and authority of the said trustees themselves; the said com-
mittee to keep a record of their proceedings, and report, an-
nually, if required, to the trustees, who shall have power to
revise or annul any of their proceedings.

4. The trustees shall have power to make and establish
from time to time, such by-laws, rules and regulations (not
contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States) as
they may judge to be proper for the management of the said
society. They may also increase their number to thirty. A
majority of said trustees shall constitute a board for the
transaction of business; and any vacancy or vacancies
amongst the trustees, occasioned by death, resignation or
removal from the states of Virginia or West Virginia, or
other disability, shall be filled by appointment of the board.

5. This act shall be in force from and after the passage
thereof.