Chap. 164.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3and 4
of an act approved February 24, 1888, entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the Lynchburg Baptist seminary.

Approved February 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections one, two, three and four of an act entitled
an act to incorporate the Lynchburg Baptist seminary,
approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, be amended and.re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That J. B. Smith, William Thornton, J. M. Young, R. M.
Smith, P. H. A. Braxton, C. H. Neuman, E. Royal, S. W.
Madden, P. Smith, P. W. Oliver, J.C. Dean, F. Cook, and
W.N. Robinson, who shall be the first class; A. Truatt,
J. L. Barksdale, John Jones, H. Jameson, William Troy,
senior, J. M. Armistead, H.C. Robinson, R. Spiller, M.
Land, H. H. Mitchell, R. H. Porter, W. B. Johnson, and J.
H. Ferguson, who shall be the second class; and Walter
H. Brooks, 8. Green, C. B. N. Gordon, H. Williams, junior,
W. Hughes, A. Pride, A. Gordon, A. Forbes, P. F. Morris,
T. G. Gladman, R. T. Hill, S. H. Dismond, J. C. Farley,
J. E. Farrar, John Pride, Royal J. Morgan, and John
Mitchell, junior, who shall be the third class, and their
successors, and such others as under the terms of this act
may be associated with them, shall be, and hereby are,
created a body corporate under the name and style of the
Virginia seminary, located at Lynchburg, Virginia, and
under the auspices of the Virginia Baptist state conven-
tion, and as such have all the powers, rights, privileges.
immunities and franchises granted by the laws of Vir-
ginia to corporations of this character.

§2. The corporators above named shall constitute a board
of managers, in whom shall be vested the power, through
the Virginia Baptist state convention, to organize, control,
manage and operate the institution hereby incorporated.
And to that end they shall have power to employ such
officers, agents, servants and committees as may be neces-
sary. Thirteen of said board of managers shall consti-
tute a quorum todo business. Those of said board named
as the first class shall constitute a first class in said board
of managers, and their term of office shall expire on the
thirty-first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
Those named as the second class shall constitute a second
class in said board of managers, and their term of office
shall expire on the thirty-first day of May, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety. Those named as the third class shall
constitute a third glass in said board of managers, and
their term of office shall expire on the thirty-first day of
May, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. The successors
of each class shall be elected by the Virginia Baptist. state
convention; the term of office of each class after the
expiration of the term, the limit of which is herein spe-
cifically fixed, shall be three years, and vacancies in said
classes shall pe filled temporarily by the board of mana-
gers until the succeeding session of the Virginia Baptist
state convention, when said vacancies shall be filled by
said convention for the residue of the said term.

§3. The board of managers shall have power to elect its
own president and other officers; to establish rules, by-laws
and regulations for its government, and to appoint its
officers, professors, servants and agents; to locate said sem-
inary, erect suitable buildings for its use and occupation ;
to establish the curriculum of said seminary, fix the char-
acter of its instruction and the requisites for the degrees
to be conferred by it, and to do any and all acts which are
necessary to the establishment and maintenance of a uni-
versity, college, seminary, or other institutions of learning.

§4. The said Virginia seminary, located at Lynchburg,
shall have power to purchase, hold, sell, and convey real
estate for its purposes, not to exceed in amount one hun-
dred acres, and to acquire and hold personal property, not
to exceed five hundred thousand dollars in value. And it
shall have power to borrow money, execute and issue its
bonds therefor, and to execute any mortgage or deed of
trust which may be requisite to secure the same.

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

CHAP 165.—An ACT to incorporate the Radford hospital.

Approved February 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That D. L. Pile, William R. Wharton, John G. Osborne,
Richard H. Adams, James D. Moffett, Samuel D. Numan,
A. Robinson, John A. Wilson, S. H. W. Lucas, J. L. Rad-
ford, of Radford, Virginia, and Joseph J. Doran, of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, or such of them as shall accept
this act, with such other persons as may hereafter be asso-
ciated with them, and their successors, be, and they are
hereby, constituted a corporation to be known as the Rad.
ford hospital, by which name they shall have perpetual
succession and a common seal, which they may alter at
pleasure, shall sue and be sued, and shall have and exer.
cise all the rights, powers and privileges pertaining tc
corporations and necessary for the pusposes of this act.

2. The corporation shall have the following powers in
addition to the general powers above mentioned, and these
powers, or such of them as it shall exercise, are the pur-
poses for which the corporation shall exist:

First. To maintain at Radford, in Montgomery county
of this commonwealth, a hospital for the medical and sur-
gical aid, treatment and cure of persons who are sick,
deformed, or suffering from bodily injuries.

Second. To instruct and train suitable persons in the
duties of nurses for the sick.

3. To enable the corporation to exercise the powers
hereby granted, or any of them, it may, either absolutely
or as trustee, acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise, all
kinds of property, real, personal and mixed, including
the stock and bonds of corporations and the obligations
of individuals, and may hold and use the same, and take
the rents, issues, profits and income thereof for the pur-
poses aforesaid; and may sell, transfer and dispose of the
said property in any manner, at any time or times, and
on any terms, and all property and the rents, issues, profits
and income thereof. while owned by the corporation, shall
be wholly exempt from taxation.

4, The corporation shal] have full power to exclude such
forms of disease or sickness, malformation and bodily
injury, and such individual cases of disease or sickness,
malformation and bodily injury as it may deem unsafe,
improper or impracticable to admit to its hospital; shall
have power to charge and collect fees for medical and
surgical treatment and incidental expenses, and to remit
the same at its pleasure, and shall have power to pre-
scribe and enforce such regulations, not inconsistent with
the laws of the United States and of this commonwealth,
as it may deem proper for the conduct of its affairs and
for the management of its hospital.

5. The corporation shall, when fully organized, consist
of twenty-one (21) members. The corporators hereinbe-
fore named, or such of them as shall accept this act, shall,
within one year after such acceptance, elect the remain-
der of the twenty-one (21) members, and thereafter vacan-
cies in the corporation caused by death or resignation, or
otherwise, shall be filled in whatever manner the corpora-
tion may by a majority vote prescribe.
6. The officers of the corporation shal] be a president,
a secretary, a treasurer, a superintendent and such others
as the corporation may appoint. No person shall be eli-
gible for the office of superintendent, or for any other
office under the corporation which requires independent
exercise of medical or surgical knowledge or skill, except
physicians or surgeons who are graduates of schools of
good repute.

7. Meetings of the corporation shall be held annually
at such times and places as the corporation may deter-
mine. At all meetings members of the corporation shall
be entitled to vote by proxy, and after it shall have been
fully organized eleven members shall constitute a quo-
rum for the transaction of business.

8. The consolations of religion may be extended to the
patients in the care of the corporation in whatever forms
the patients may desire; but no influence shall be exerted
within the hospital in the special interest of any particu-
lar religious sect or denomination.

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

CHAP. 186 —An ACT to authorize Albemarle county to borrow
dotag to build a flire-proof clerk’s office und retire overdue
nds.

Approved February 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the board of supervisors of Albemarle county be, and
they are hereby, authorized to borrow money not exceed-
ing ten thousand dollars, with which to build for the
county a fire-proof clerk’s office and to retire such of the
outstanding and. past due bonds of the county as the
board may deem proper.

2. The said loan shall be effected by issuing the bonds
of the county, signed by the chairman of said board and
countersigned by the clerk, payable not more than twenty
years after the date of issue; the said bonds to be for the
gum of five hundred dollars each, with coupons attached
for the semi-annual interest, and the principal shall he
made to fall due in sums of two thousand dollars each
year, so that all of the bonds shall become due and be
paid off in sums of two thousand dollars each consecutive
year after payment of them is begun.

3. The said board of ‘supervisors may fix the rate of in-
terest which the said bonds shall bear, but said rate shall
not exceed six per centum per annum.

4. The said board of supervisors shall have full power
to negotiate the said bonds through an agent, or in any
way they may think best, and may deposit the proceeds
in either of the banks in Charlottesville, subject to their
order, pending the completion of the fire-proof clerk’s
office; provided, however, that they shall not negotiate
the six per centum bonds of the county for less than par
value.

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