Chap. 91.—An ACT to incorporate the Keysville bluestone mission indus-
trial school.

Approved January 17, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Reverends
Nelson Jordan, R. C. Yancey, George D. Wharton, P. E. Anderson, F.
L. Hall, Jesse H. Wilson, Jordan Moselev, Whitfield Clark, L. N. Wilson,
A. J. Goode, S. L. Johnson, N. C. Baghv, and Miss Mary E. Wilson.
and their successors, who are hereby constituted a board of trustees, and
made a body politic. by the name and style of the Kevsville bluestone
mission industrial school, for the purpose of keeping and conducting, at
Keysville, Charlotte county, Virginia, a boarding and day school of the
above name, and of giving instruction to such colored persons, male ot
female, as may be committed to their care as pupils of said school, in all
the various studies, courses, and branches of education. ‘The said board
of trustees may adopt, with power to make or prescribe such rules and
regulations as from time to time may seem to them fit and proper, and
to successfully govern and promote the objects and plans of said school.

2. The thirteen persons first named in this act shall constitute the
first board of trustees of the said school, and shall continue in office
until the meeting of the Bluestone association.

At such first meeting, and at every annual meeting, so many trustees
shall be elected as may be prescribed by the by-laws and regulations of
the said association. A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business. |

3. The board of trustees appointed hereunder shall, within sixty days
after the passage of this act, meet and elect one of their number presi-
dent, and shall also select a secretary, and treasurer, who need not be
members of the board; the officers thus chosen shall continue in office
during the pleasure of the board, and the treasurer shall be required
to execute bond with good and sufficient security in the penalty of at
least double the sum which will be received by him during any one year,
conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. It shall be the
duty of the board to examine and audit the accounts of the treasurer
annually, immediately before the meeting of the association, and at such
other time as to them may seem fit and proper.

4. The Keysville Bluestone mission industrial school shall have per-
petual succession and a common seal, which it may alter or amend at
its pleasure, be contracted with, purchase, hold and grant real or personal
estate for its purposes, and may accept and hold any gift, bequest, or
devise of real or personal estate or moneys, which hereafter may have
been or hereafter may be given, bequeathed, or devised to said school for
the use and benefit of a school, to be erected, and may erect on its own
land all suitable and necessary school buildings. It may sue for and
collect all sums subscribed in writing for the erection of school buildings,
and receive transfers of and collect any and all subscriptions made for
that purpose, whether made before or since its incorporation, and
whether made to individuals or to the corporation. It may also make
regulations for the government of all persons and property under its
authority, for the management of its estate and for the due and orderly
conduct of its affairs: provided, that it shall not at any time acquire or
hold real or personal estate exceeding the value of fifty thousand dollars.

5. The said school may have such public, or other celebrations, at
such times and places, and in such manner and form as it may deem
proper, and may confer and bestow upon its pupils, or graduates, such
diplomas, or certificates, or other evidence of graduation, distinction, or
proficiency as said pupils may acquire in their various studies, or employ-
ments, according to the regulations of said school, and the determination
of its teachers, instructors, trustees, or other officers, which said diplomas
or certificates shall bear the seal of said school, and the signature of its
principal, instructors, and trustees, or any of them, as they may deter-
mine.

6. Appropriations of public free school funds may be made by the
school districts of Charlotte county, or either of them, from time to
time, and used for the payment of teachers in maintaining said school:
provided, that no appropriation shall be made for this purpose by any
school district until provision is made for teaching in said school all the
branches now taught in the public free schools ‘of said county, or for
training, and teaching in the industrial branches, said branches to be
taught free to any colored child in Charlotte county entitled to attend
the public free schools in any district thereof,

The teachers in the public free school department of said school
shall make reports in all respects as required of other teachers in the
free schools, and be subject to the same visitation by the county superin-
tendent of schools of Charlotte county.

%. The oflicers of said school shall consist of a principal, and such
assistants in the different departments as may be deemed requisite, to be
chosen in such manner and form as said corporators may preseribe.

8. This act shall be enforced from its passage.