Chap. 187.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act
entitled an act amending an act to incorporate the trustees of
Randolph Macon college, approved February 3, 1830, and rati-
fying the removal of said college from Boydton to "Ashland,
approved July 9, 1870.

Approved February 7, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section three of an act entitled “an act amending
an act entitled an act to incorporate the trustees of Ran-
dolph Macon college, passed February third, eighteen
hundred and thirty, and ratifying the removal of said
college from Boydton to Ashland,” approved July ninth,
eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§3. That Hezekiah Lee, John Early, Edward Cannon,
W. A. Smith, William J. Waller, Thomas Crowder, Moses
Brock, James Boyd, William Hammett, Caleb Leech,

Matthew M. Dance, Lewis Skidmore, Augustine Claiborne,
Ethelbert Drake, Henry Filts, John Nutall, James Wyche,
John P. Harrison, Greenville Penn, Walker Timberlake,
John G. Claiborne, Howell Taylor, James Smith, Joel
Blackwell, John Y. Mason, James Garland, Richard G.
Morris, John W. Lewis, William O. Goode, and Nathaniel
Alexander be, and they are hereby, constituted trustees of
said college, who, and their. successors, shall be a body
politic and corporate by the name of the trustees of Ran-
dolph Macon college, who shall have perpetual succession
and a common seal, and by the name aforesaid they are,
and their successors shall be, capable in Jaw to possess,
purchase, receive, and retain to them and their successors
forever any lands, tenements, rents, goods, chattels, or
interest of any kind whatsoever which may have already
been given or by them purchased, or may hereafter be
given, or by them purchased for the use of said college,
to erect, establish, and maintain upon any such lands or tene-
ments xuch schools, academies, or other institutions of learning
for the instruction of the youth of the land, as tothem may
seem desirable, and to dispose of them in any way whatsoever
they sha]! adjudge most useful to the interests and legal
purposes of the institution, to give bonds, notes, or other
evidences of debt, and to secure the same by deeds of
trust upon the property of the institution, and by the
fame name to sue and implead, be sued and impleaded,
answer and be answered in all courts of law and equity,
and under their common seal to make and establish from
time to time such by-laws, rules, and ordinances not con-
trary to the laws and constitution of this commonwealth
as shall by them be thought essential to the good order
and government of the professors, masters, and students
of said college, schools, academies, or other institutions
established by them under the authority of this act.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.