CHAP. 117.—An ACT to incorporate the Southern negro orphan
asylum.

Approved January 31, 1890,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the Southern negro orphan asylum be, and it is
hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate by that
name, to be under the control and management of a board
of trustees consisting of F. M. Whittle, H. M. Randolph,
Fitzhugh Lee, Thomas J. Kirkpatrick, Charles M. Black-
ford, T. M. Carson, E. J. Folkes, William M. Lile, F. T.
Lee, Edmund Schafer, A. H. Burroughs, Randolph B.
McKin, John §. Lindsay, G. R. Lewis, Samuel Tyree,
Alexander McDonald, and A. Jaeger, and their successors
in office, and it shall have power to hold the property,
real and personal, already held in trust for it, and such
other property as it may hereafter acquire by gift, bequest,
devise, or purchase, such real estate not to exceed one
thousand acres within the state of Virginia.

2. Said board of trustees may fill any vacancy which
may occur in this. body and may elect additional mem-
‘bers: provided, that their whole number shall never exceed
twenty-one members. And it shall have power to appoint
all such officers, managers, and agents, as may be deemed
necessary or proper, and to require of any of them bond
with security conditioned for the faithful performance of
their duties. :
3. Said negro orphan asylum shal] have power to receive,
train, control, and educate negro orphan children, male
and female, and for that purpose shall have the right to
contract by its board of trustees, or by agents appointed
by such board, with the overseers of the poor or other
proper authorities or persons for the care, control and
maintenance of negro children in one or more institutions
until they reach the age of twenty-one years, and said
board, through its proper agents, shal] have exclusive con-
trol of said children until they reach twenty-one years of
age, unless the board shall sooner release them; and said
board shall provide for and give such children the ele-
ments of a plain English education, and teach and train
them to such trades or occupations as it may deem best,
and may by contract hire or bind out any such child to
other proper parties.

4. Such board shall, the better to enable it to carry out
the objects in view, have the right to conduct and carry
on any such business, trade, or manufacturing as it may
consider proper.

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

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