CHAP. 174.—An ACT to incorporate the Tazewell college.

Approved February 5, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That William J. Shelburne, A. A. Ferguson, J. N. Harman,
A. J. Steel, George W. Gillespie, Judge P. W. Strother,
Judge J. H. Stuart, Colonel John B. Cary, and H. E.
McWane, and such other persons as may hereafter be
associated witb them, be, and they are hereby, created and
incorporated and made a body politic and incorporate
under the name and style of Tazewell college, at the town
of Tazewell, Virginia, for the purpose of keeping and con-
ducting a boarding-school of the above name for boys and
young men, and of teaching and giving instruction to such
boys and young men, or other persons.as may be committed
to their care as pupils at said school, in al] the various
studies and courses of instruction in the sciences, modern
languages, English and foreign, and in ancient languages,
In music, book-keeping, telegraphy, shorthand, typewrit-
ing, and any and all of the liberal arts, and all and any
matters or things usually prescribed in schools and colleges,
and commercial colleges of the highest grade, and schools
of surveying, navigation, and mining, with the right and
privilege to make and prescribe such rules and regulations
as from time to time may seem fit and proper to them, and
to change and alter the same to enable them to conduct
the daily and yearly exercises, and successfully to govern
and generally to promote and carry out the objects and
plans of said college.

2. The said college shall have perpetual succession and
a common seal, which it may alter or amend at its pleas-
ure, and may in its corporate name sue and be sued, im-
plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with,
purchase, hold, and grant estates, real and personal, for
its purposes, receive endowments and create scholarships,
and make regulations for the government of all persons
and things and property under its authority for the
management of its estates and the due and orderly con-
ducting of its affairs: provided, that said college shall
not at any time acquire and hold real and personal estate
exceeding in value the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars.

3. That said college may have such public or other cel-
ebrations at such times and places, and in such manner
and form as it may see fit and proper, and may confer
and bestow upon its pupils or graduates, such diplomas or
certificates or other evidences of graduation, distinction,
or proficiency as said pupils may acquire in their various
studies or employments, according to the regulations of
said college and the determination of its teachers, in-
structors, or other officers, which said diplomas or certifi-
cates shall bear the seal of said college and its signature
by its principal instructor.

4. That the officers of said college shall consist of a
principal instructor, and such assistants in the school in
all of its departments as may be deemed requisite, to be
chosen in such manner and form as said corporators may
prescribe.

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