Chap. 282.—An ACT to incorporate the southern seminary at Bowling Green,
Virginia.

Approved February 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there he,
and is hereby established, in the town of Bowling Green, in the county
of Caroline, Virginia, a seminary of learning for the instruction of girls
and young ladies in the various branches of science and literature, music,
painting, the useful arts, and in the languages.

2. That the said seminary shall be known as “ the southern seminary.”

3. That Paul Whitehead, J. Powell Garland, A. G. Brown, J. J.
Lafferty, C. E. Watts, R. T. Wilson, W. V. Tudor, Isaac Canter, Garrett
Anderson, A. EB. Kellam, R. O. Peatross, William F. Hayes, J. T. Mastin,
J. P. Stump, and such other persons as may be elected as their associates
and successors in office, be, and are herevy, constituted and appointed
trustees of said seminary, who (and their successors) shall be a body
politic and corporate by the name of the “ trustees of the southern semi-
nary,” who shall have a perpetual succession and a common seal, and
bv the name aforesaid they and their successors shall be capable in
law to possess, purchase, receive, and retain to their and their succes-
sors forever any lands, tenants, rents, goods, chattels, or interest of
kind whatever which may have been already given, or which shall be
hereafter given or be purchased by them for the use of said seminary,
and to dispose of the same in any way whatsoever that they shall adjudge
most useful to the interest and legal purposes of the institution; and
by the same name to sue and implead, be sued and impleaded, to answer
and be answered in all the courts of law and equity; and under their com-
mon seal to from time to time make and establish such by-laws, rules,
and ordinances not contrarv to the laws and constitution of this com-
monwealth, or to the conditions of the deed of gift of E. H. Rowe and
wife as shall by them be thought essential to the good order and gov-
ernment of the president, professors, teachers, and pupils of said semi-
nary.

4. That the trustees shall elect the president or principal of the
said seminary and fix his compensation, and the president or principal so
elected shall have the right to select and engage professors and teachers
for said institution, and to change or discharge the same, to receive and
dismiss pupils, and to manage, direct, and control the institutional and
disciplinary work of said institute as he may deem best for its interest.
5. That the trustees or any seven of them (which number shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business) shall have power to
meet at such times as they think necessary, and should there be less
than seven at that meeting they may adjourn from day to day, or to
any future day, until a quorum shall be had.

6. That the said trustees or a quorum of them shall annually elect
a treasurer of the said seminary, who shall give bond with approved
security, payable to the trustees by their corporate name aforesaid, and
their successors, constitutioned faithfully to discharge the duties of his
said office, and shall render an account of all moneys, goods and chattels
received and expended by him on account of, and for the use of said
seminary.

%. That the said trustees or a quorum of them shall have power to
remove or suspend the president of the said institution for good cause,
and to supply the vacancy occasioned by such removal, and when there
shall be a vacancy occasioned by the death, removal, resignation, or
refusal to act, on the part of any trustee, the remaining trustees or a
quorum of them shall fill the vacancy so occasioned.

8. That whenever any trustee shall absent himself from three suc-
cessive meetings of the board of trustees, having been duly notified of
such meeting, without assigning a sufficient reason therefor, the trustees
or a quorum thereof shall have power by an entry on their minutes to
declare his seat vacant, and proceed to elect his successor to fill said
vacancy.

9, ‘hat there shall be annual stated meeting of said board of trustees
and at such other times as said board may appoint.

10. That the said board of trustees shall never be less than twelve,
nor more than twenty-eight.

11. That the president and trustees of said seminary, before entering
on the duties of their several offices, shall take the following oath or
affirmation: 1 (S. B.) do swear (or affirm) that I will to the best of my
ability discharge the duties required of me as trustee (or president) of
the southern seminary, according to the act of incorporation without
partiality, favor, or affection. So help me God.

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